{"id":280003,"date":"2026-07-03T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=280003"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:00:41","slug":"amazon-set-to-launch-its-leo-satellite-internet-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/280003\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon set to launch its LEO satellite internet later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial operations of its Leo internet-from-space service later this year, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The company launched 29 satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in the early hours of Thursday, bringing its total constellation to more than 390 satellites.<\/p>\n

Amazon announced its satellite internet project Project Kuiper in 2019 and rebranded it as Amazon Leo in November 2025.<\/p>\n

The company aims to build a constellation of roughly 3,236 satellites, though deployment has been hampered by a shortage of rocket capacity and a series of launch setbacks.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial operations of its Leo internet-from-space service later this year, Euronews writes. The company launched 29 satellites aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in the early hours of Thursday, bringing its total constellation to more than 390 satellites. Amazon announced its satellite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":280000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280004,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280003\/revisions\/280004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}