{"id":507028,"date":"2026-07-03T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507028\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:14:15","slug":"amazons-starlink-competitor-is-almost-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/507028\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Starlink competitor is almost ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has been building up its own Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation for a while now, even calling it Amazon Leo (Low Earth Orbit, get it?). This is inevitably going to compete with SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink, which is currently the largest satellite constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Amazon&#8217;s VP in charge of Leo, Chris Weber, has just announced that over 390 Leo satellites have been deployed already, which is apparently enough &#8220;to support continuous service across initial latitudes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783037655_240_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon's Starlink competitor is almost ready\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He further states that the company has already completed &#8220;enough launches for initial service this year&#8221;, strongly hinting at the fact that Amazon plans to make Leo generally available as a service before the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in being among the first to try Leo, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/leo.amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sign up for the waitlist here<\/a>. Amazon will offer three different receivers for Leo &#8211; Nano (7&#8243; by 7&#8243;) supporting up to 100Mbps downloads, Pro supporting up to 400Mbps (11&#8243; by 11&#8243;), and Ultra supporting up to 1Gbps download speeds (this one is 20&#8243; by 30&#8243;).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Weber44Chris\/status\/2072575499461963938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has been building up its own Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation for a while now, even calling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-507028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}