Satellite and spacecraft manufacturing
Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiper
Amazon's low Earth orbit broadband network, renamed Amazon Leo, which processes satellites in Florida and has secured more than 80 launches across Arianespace, Blue Origin, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance [AMZLEO][AMZKUI][SFN139].
- Entity type
- company
- Kind
- company
- Lane
- Satellite and spacecraft manufacturing
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 2023
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2023 · 2023: Amazon Leo, formerly Project Kuiper leases Launch and Landing Facility (2023 onward)
- Role
- satellite constellation operator
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. The Amazon Leo processing facility is open in Florida; the constellation has secured more than 80 launches.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 2
- Betweenness
- 0.0057 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [AMZLEOHOME] [AMZLEO] [AMZKUI] [SFN139]
Connections
Property, facility and development
- builds →Amazon Leo satellite processing facilitythe constellation operator builds the processing facility, $120 million announced July 2023; a $19.5 million, 42,000 square foot support building brings the site to nearly $140 million [AMZKUI] [SFN139]2023; 2024
- leases →Launch and Landing Facilitylease at the Launch and Landing Facility using the authority's lease structure agreement [SFKUI] [AMZKUI]2023 onward