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Amazon Leo Satellite Internet Coming to Delta Flights in 2028

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Amazon today announced that it is bringing more high-speed Wi-Fi to Delta Air Lines customers via its Amazon Leo technology, which is powered by a constellation of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit – roughly 370 miles above the planet's surface.

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Under the multi-year agreement, Delta will begin rolling out Amazon Leo in 2028 with an initial installation on 500 aircraft, "providing customers with high-speed, low-latency Wi-Fi from gate-to-gate."

Each Delta aircraft will be equipped with a single purpose-built phased array antenna that supports download speeds up to 1 Gbps and upload speeds up to 400 Mbps.

"We've designed Leo to provide high-speed internet to the billions of people on Earth without reliable connectivity, and this agreement with Delta is a great example of the impact and scale of the technology – bringing even faster in-flight Wi-Fi to tens of millions of passengers who fly Delta every year," said Andy Jassy, President and CEO of Amazon. "People increasingly want to stay connected wherever they are in the world, and Leo's speed and reliability is going to have a big impact for businesses, governments, and consumers. It's going to make the in-flight experience so much better, and it's going to change what's possible while traveling."

Like Delta's existing commitment to passengers, Leo-powered in-flight Wi-Fi will be free for all Delta SkyMiles members.

Tag: Delta Airlines

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DEMinSoCAL
2 weeks ago

Every human on earth can have 100,000 satellites of their own and there would still be TONS of empty space
That is incorrect because empty space doesn't weigh anything! :D
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boswald
2 weeks ago
Even more satellites orbiting earth... Pretty soon space will be a big intergalactic parking lot.
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WarmWinterHat
2 weeks ago

Space is pretty vast. Lots more room to go there, don't worry.
Space is pretty vast. Low-earth orbit is not, and it's already pretty crowded. The closer satellites are to one another, the more fuel they must expend on orbital corrections to counteract natural perturbations and maintain safe separation. That makes they more expensive, and more complicated.

There needs to be physical miles between satellites for a multitude of reasons, like safety, communication interference and confusion for ground stations, accounting for drift, etc.
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rp100
2 weeks ago

which is powered by a constellation of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit – roughly 370 miles above the planet's surf
Amazon currently has less than 250 satellites orbit. They can’t even meet the July deadline (filed with FCC) to have a 1600-satellite constellation in orbit and have asked for an extension.

Hopefully this will materialize into a legitimate competing service for satellite internet, but at the moment it’s still two years out.
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Hajj.david
2 weeks ago

Even more satellites orbiting earth... Pretty soon space will be a big intergalactic parking lot.

Even more satellites orbiting earth... Pretty soon space will be a big intergalactic parking lot.
These satellites are tiny and get burnt up in 5 or so years per current regulations. Plus the volume of space of LEO is gigantic, its roughly 295 billion cubic miles. Every human on earth can have 100,000 satellites of their own and there would still be TONS of empty space
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Tim Jobs the 2nd
2 weeks ago

im not sure you understand how satellite's work
I'm not sure you replied to the right post
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