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The Amazon Leo service, which busy deploying thousands of ultrafast broadband satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for the UK and globally to compete with Starlink, has successfully tested their Leo Pro dish (terminal) to slightly beyond its top rated download speed of 400Mbps (Megabits per second) in a beta test of the service.
The service, which has already launched 392 Kuiper satellites into orbit and is presently in its commercial beta phase (they need at least 500 for basic global coverage), is currently expected to start launching properly by around the end of 2026 to consumers, businesses and the public sector. A total of 1,000 satellites have so far already been manufactured for the service and more will soon be launched into orbit.
The network currently has approval to deploy and operate their own initial constellation of 3,236 LEO broadband satellites (altitudes of 590km to 630km), as well as 5,105 satellites for a 5G mobile service (here). As we’ve previously reported, this will be supported by three different terminals (dishes) to reflect different use cases – Nano (100Mbps DL / 20Mbps UP), Pro (400Mbps / 100Mbps) and Ultra (1000Mbps / 400Mbps).