Chris Weber

Two launches. Two continents. One mission. Leo Atlas 6 (LA-06) and Leo Europe 2 (LE-02) launched just over 48 hours apart, delivering 61 Leo satellites to orbit and growing our constellation to 300+ satellites. Leo is next on the manifest for both @ULAlaunch and @Arianespace as we prepare to accelerate deployment rates in year two. Learn more: aboutamazon.com/news/innovatio…

Congratulations team @Amazonleo and our partners at @Arianespace on a successful 🚀 launch of 32 satellites.

Amazon spent $10 billion to put 200 satellites in orbit. Starlink has 10,000. And Amazon just landed Delta, JetBlue, and Airbus anyway. The antenna explains why. This thing is 58 inches long, 30 inches wide, and 2.6 inches tall. A phased array with no moving parts. Full-duplex, meaning 1 Gbps down and 400 Mbps up simultaneously. One antenna covers an entire commercial aircraft. Every seat, every class, gate to gate. Starlink's aviation antenna tops out at 220 Mbps. Amazon's does 1 Gbps. That's 4.5x the throughput from a company with 2% of the satellites. The engineering constraint most people miss: inflight wifi has always been limited by the antenna on the plane, not the constellation in the sky. Geostationary satellites had plenty of bandwidth. The bottleneck was a mechanical dish on the fuselage trying to track a signal while moving at 575 mph through turbulence and temperature swings. Amazon solved that with an electronically steered array. No gimbal, no motor, no maintenance. Install it in a day, forget about it for a decade. And here's where the business model becomes clear. The antenna connects directly to AWS. No public internet routing. Delta's operational data, crew communications, passenger streaming, real-time AI analytics from seatback to cloud with private network interconnect. Starlink sells you a wifi pipe. Amazon sells you infrastructure. United has 800 Starlink planes. IAG committed 500. Lufthansa committed 850. Collectively, thousands of aircraft locked into Starlink's ecosystem. Amazon looked at that and decided: we'll take fewer airlines but own the entire data layer underneath them. Delta's 500 planes running on AWS through Leo is worth more to Amazon than 5,000 planes on commodity wifi. The $10 billion on satellites was never the product. The antenna was the product. And the antenna is a trojan horse for AWS.

Thanks @ULALaunch for having me on the LA-06 livestream last night! Always fun to see a launch in person, but also great to be in the mix with our amazing Leo mission control team in Redmond, and enjoyed sharing more about how these launches are bringing us closer to delivering service for our customers.

@spaceguyofblue @Amazonleo @ulalaunch Later this year

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Congratulations to our @Amazonleo team and our @ulalaunch partners on another successful 🚀 launch 👏

ULA's Roll & Preps Crew moved the Atlas V 551 rocket to Space Launch Complex-41 this morning to deliver Amazon's next 29 broadband satellites into space later tonight. Liftoff time is 8:52 p.m. EDT (0052 UTC). ULA is proceeding with a continuous roll-and-launch in a single-day countdown, part of our efforts to increase launch cadence for our @AmazonLeo customer. This effort reduces the amount of time the rocket spends at the pad, enabling launch to occur sooner. bit.ly/av_leo6

As an avid golfer, I'm so excited to announce that the @DPWorldTour is the first professional sports organization to use @AmazonLeo. Golf tournaments are a perfect example of challenges that Leo can solve — enormous venues, temporary setups, often in places with limited comms infrastructure. With Amazon Leo antennas deployed course-wide, we'll deliver fast, convenient connectivity for everything from broadcast production to fan experiences. This is just the beginning for Leo in live events! Learn more: aboutamazon.com/news/amazon-le…

This is a significant step for @Amazonleo!

@Amazonleo is bringing gigabit connectivity to 35,000 feet. Airline passengers want to stay connected in the air—streaming, collaborating, staying in touch—just like they do on the ground. The Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna delivers up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload from a single antenna, purpose-built to deliver high performance with one-day installation and minimal maintenance requirements. It means full-aircraft connectivity for passengers from gate to gate and more timely date for airline crew to improve the passenger experience and aircraft operations. Look forward to seeing this installed on aircraft for @JetBlue and @Delta, and excited to bring to more aviation customers over times. Learn more: leo.amazon.com/business/indus…

Introducing the Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna. Delivering speeds up to 1 Gbps downlink and 400 Mbps uplink from a single antenna – it's simple enough to install in a single day, and powerful enough to support an entire cabin full of streaming, browsing, working and more from gate to gate. spr.ly/6011B626IR

Atlas, Rise. ⬆️ The 551 configuration of ULA’s venerable Atlas V launcher — affectionately nicknamed “The Bruiser” — lit up the night, delivering a load of 29 @Amazonleo satellites to low Earth orbit. @NASASpaceflight 📺 youtube.com/live/6SiX9UPKq…

Another 29 satellites successfully deployed. Congratulations to our amazing @Amazonleo team!

This is a big moment for @Amazon and @Delta. Gate-to-gate Wi-Fi fast enough for a full plane to stream, game, and work simultaneously—at 35,000 feet. Even over oceans. And all powered by @AmazonLeo. Two customer-obsessed companies building what's next. ✈️

A closer look at how Amazon Leo payloads stack up across our launch lineup. Upcoming Atlas V missions are increasing from 27 to 29 satellites, and heavy-lift launches with Ariane 6, New Glenn, and Vulcan will send even more Leo satellites into orbit at a time and help accelerate deployment plans. Learn more our upcoming manifest: spr.ly/6018B65cXg

Super fun to sit down with @sarahcruddas at #SATShow and share updates on @Amazonleo. Big year ahead – 20+ launches, bigger payloads thanks to Atlas V improvements & heavy-lift chops of A64, Vulcan & New Glenn – means lots for customers to look forward to. satellitetoday.com/connectivity/2…

📸 A look behind the scenes as our LA-05 payload was integrated with Atlas V ahead of launch, targeting Sunday, March 29 at 3:53 a.m. EDT. More: spr.ly/6016B6ZYsg

Congratulations to the team!

Amazon, your package has been delivered. Ariane 6 has lifted off for the first time with four boosters, making it our most powerful European launcher! On board: 32 satellites for Amazon’s constellation. Amazon chose Europe for this major launch. A French feat, a European success: we’re reaching new heights. Congratulations to the teams.

Update for our enterprise customers: @Amazonleo has the green light from the @FCC to expand the constellation, adding  capacity & bandwidth to the network & extending coverage to polar regions—including Alaska, the Arctic, and the most northern parts of North America and Europe.