亚马逊Leo已发射200余颗卫星 第二年发射节奏翻倍

Key takeaways - Amazon has launched 200+ satellites to date and has another 200+ stacked and ready for launch. - Upcoming Atlas V payloads will increase to 29 satellites, the rocket’s heaviest payload ever. - 20+ missions planned for year two of deployment, including first on New Glenn and Vulcan Centaur. - Amazon invested $200+ million in upgrades at Cape Canaveral to support increased launch cadence. Amazon Leo is continuing the full-scale deployment of our growing satellite constellation, with more than 200 satellites deployed and hundreds of additional flight-ready spacecraft on standby for launch. Amazon currently operates the third-largest satellite system in orbit, and with three additional missions planned over the next month, the program is on pace to complete 11 launches in our first year of deployment. We’re prepared to move even faster in year two—a direct result of our long-term investments in satellite production, launch capacity, and infrastructure. Every satellite adds coverage and capacity to the network, and we’re on pace to more than double our annual launch rate to over 20 missions and send even more satellites to space at a time. Amazon Leo satellite production and processing We build, test, and qualify Leo satellites at our dedicated production facility in Kirkland, Washington. The facility has the capacity to build as many as 30 satellites per week, and although we’ve adjusted weekly production targets to reflect launch vehicle readiness and availability, the Leo team continues to manufacture multiple satellites per day, and we currently have hundreds of flight-ready satellites on standby for launch. Many of those satellites have already been shipped to processing facilities in Florida and French Guiana. As of mid-March, we have six fully stacked payloads at our satellite processing facility in Florida—more than 200 satellites in total—and another payload being prepared in French Guiana. More satellites per launch The majority of Leo satellites this year will launch on new heavy-lift rockets that will allow us to deploy more satellites per mission and reduce the cost of deployment over time. We completed the first of these, Leo Europe 1 (LE-01), on February 12 using Arianespace’s Ariane 64 rocket. LE-01 sent 32 Leo satellites to space, and future booster upgrades will allow us to support even larger payloads on Ariane 64. The other heavy-lift rockets on our manifest, Blue Origin’s New Glenn and United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan C…