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The mission brings Amazon&#8217;s total constellation to more than 390 satellites, which is &#8220;enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes,&#8221; Chris Weber, vice president of business and product for Amazon Leo, wrote in a post on X. <\/p>\n<div style=\"height:100%\" class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a key milestone for Amazon as the company tries to make Leo a competitor to <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-4\">SpaceX<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>&#8216;s Starlink in the low Earth orbit satellite market. In November, Amazon began offering an &#8220;enterprise preview&#8221; of Leo for select businesses, but it has yet to launch its service for consumers and government customers. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s initial commercial service will likely be limited to users in certain geographies. Future missions will &#8220;add coverage and capacity,&#8221; Weber said.  <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX had a four-year head start on Amazon, launching Starlink in 2015. It has since amassed a constellation of around 10,000 satellites and more than 10 million subscribers. Amazon announced the creation of Kuiper in 2019, and later changed the name to Leo. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-relatedContent\" id=\"RegularArticle-RelatedContent-1\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-container\">\n<div class=\"RelatedContent-nonCollapsibleContent\">\n<h2 class=\"RelatedContent-header\">Read more CNBC tech news<\/h2>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<ul>\n<li>Meta&#8217;s push into cloud computing means Wall Street has to prepare for lower margins<\/li>\n<li>Chip stocks that notched record rallies in second quarter start Q3 with a dud<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation will end physical disc production for new games in 2028<\/li>\n<li>Employers who laid off workers citing AI are already starting to regret it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Amazon aims to build a constellation of roughly 7,700 satellites, but the effort has been slowed by a shortage of rocket capacity. In its January request for an extension on regulatory deployment deadlines, the company cited delays beyond its control, including a &#8220;shortage in the near-term availability&#8221; of rockets. Amazon in 2022 signed a historic deal to reserve rocket launches with ULA, Arianespace and Jeff Bezos&#8217; Blue Origin, before purchasing rides with SpaceX. Many of those providers have experienced delays with their launch vehicles.  <\/p>\n<p>Another setback came in May, when one of Blue Origin&#8217;s New Glenn rockets exploded on the launchpad during a hot-fire test, just days before it was slated to carry a batch of Amazon satellites. The company is currently rebuilding the pad, and working to determine what caused the anomaly. <\/p>\n<div style=\"height:100%\" class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<p>Bezos and Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp have said the company is determined to return New Glenn to flight later this year. New Glenn is a giant, partially reusable rocket that seeks to compete with SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket and can carry heavier payloads of up to 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit. <\/p>\n<p>Amazon said Thursday its next Leo mission will use ULA&#8217;s Vulcan heavy-lift rocket, &#8220;which will carry even larger Leo payloads and help increase our deployment rate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing by at the Cape and a new, dedicated vertical integration facility ready to support Leo Vulcan 1 and subsequent missions, we have a clear path to increase launch and deployment cadence, helping us quickly expand network coverage following an initial service rollout later this year,&#8221; Melissa Wuerl, Leo&#8217;s director of launch systems, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong> Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108320315\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ArticleBody-MobileAdhesion\" class=\"MobileAdhesion-container\" data-module=\"mps-slot\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceBorder\"><\/div>\n<p>Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is shown on its launch pad carrying Amazon&#8217;s<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108137412-17458548552025-04-28t153756z_236737818_rc237eaqfmxw_rtrmadp_0_space-exploration-amazon.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Amazon has deployed enough satellites to launch Leo service later this year","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[421,1031,303,404],"class_list":["post-383549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inv-business","tag-amazon","tag-launch","tag-service","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}