You might associate Amazon with Alexa or its Prime Video streaming service, rather than rockets and satellites. It doesn’t matter what you think, though. Because it’s true. Amazon is – rather rapidly – building a new internet network in space. It’s called Amazon Leo, and it is, in essence, Amazon’s answer to Starlink – Elon Musk’s SpaceX-owned satellite internet service.
Like Starlink, rather than relying on fibre cables, phone lines or nearby mobile towers, Leo uses satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth to provide an internet connection. That’s more than a little useful in rural and remote areas where conventional broadband…
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