J. Alberto Palacios @albertopal

Real competition for Starlink is coming very, very soon. I spoke with the principals behind Amazon Leo about the road to get here, and how they plan to compete. arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/…

1000+ Leo satellites complete, with hundreds on standby for launch. From two prototypes to a full-rate production line, every Leo satellite is designed, built, and tested at our factory in Kirkland, WA. Getting here meant standing up a satellite factory from scratch, compressing test cycles that traditionally take months into days, and learning from every piece of hardware we broke along the way. Here's an inside look: aboutamazon.com/stories/how-am…

Most satellite RFQs still ask for Mbps. The smart ones ask about uptime, who picks up at 2am, and what happens when the first terminal fails in the field. That's where the real contract lives.

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has raised $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation in its first-ever funding round with outside investors, the Wall Street Journal reports. Bezos is investing another $2 billion himself, bringing the roughly 26-year-old space company to about $30 billion of cumulative funding from its founder. Internal projections reviewed by the Journal show Blue Origin expects revenue to climb from roughly $800 million in 2025 and $1.4 billion this year to more than $30 billion by 2030. The company is betting that growth will come from New Glenn launches, a planned satellite communications business and a future fleet of AI satellites. Blue Origin now employs roughly 15,000 people as it works to expand New Glenn production and rebuild its Florida launch infrastructure following a vehicle explosion earlier this year.

BREAKING: Google $GOOGL will launch an experimental AI satellite on Oct. 1 carrying four of its TPU chips, the New York Times reports, marking the first orbital test for Project Suncatcher - Google’s effort to eventually build AI data centers in space. The satellite will test whether Google’s AI hardware can reliably operate in orbit and will carry enough compute to answer simple Gemini queries from space. Google plans two additional satellite launches in 2027 and is already studying future fleets of 80+ satellites that could link together as an orbital AI data center. The company believes space-based data centers could become cost-competitive with terrestrial facilities by the mid-2030s as launch costs fall and orbital solar power becomes more attractive. If successful, Project Suncatcher would move one of the world’s largest AI companies from simply studying space-based compute to actually running AI hardware in orbit.

It’s official: @IridiumComm shareholders have voted and approved the acquisition by Rocket Lab ✅ By joining forces, we’ll be creating a vertically-integrated space powerhouse that designs, builds, launches, and operates its own constellations to bring critical communications capability to millions of users worldwide. Full details and next steps: bit.ly/3T53qq1

BREAKING: The Pentagon has awarded Katalyst Space a contract to build a robotic spacecraft that will assemble a solar-power station in orbit and beam the electricity back to Earth. Under the ASGARD program, Katalyst’s NEXUS spacecraft will carry modular tiles developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory into low Earth orbit. Its autonomous robotic arms will assemble the tiles into a large solar array, convert the collected energy into microwaves and transmit it to a ground receiver. If the technology scales, it could deliver power to remote bases, unmanned systems and contested locations without relying entirely on vulnerable grids or fuel convoys. Orbital assembly would let these systems grow beyond the size constraints of a single rocket, with the architecture designed to be resupplied, expanded, and upgraded after deployment. The technology is not starting from zero, as NRL previously tested solar-to-microwave conversion aboard the X-37B and transmitted 1.6 kilowatts across one kilometer on Earth. ASGARD will combine power beaming with robotic orbital construction, potentially laying the foundation for energy infrastructure supporting military operations, satellites, and in-space manufacturing. Katalyst announced the Pentagon award today. The contract value and launch date were not disclosed.

Viasat and @space42ai sign binding agreement to co-found #Equatys, creating the first shared space and ground infrastructure platform for global Direct-to-Device and advanced MSS Connectivity. vsat.co/4xWIYGX

Satellite used to mean expensive, slow, high latency. For a long time that was accurate. GEO sits at 36,000 km. Physics gives you around 600 ms round trip, and no engineering fixes that. LEO orbits between 500 and 1,200 km. Same physics, 20 to 50 ms. The stigma was never about satellite. It was about distance. The graphic below is drawn to scale, Earth's radius as the unit.

A glimpse behind the scenes - Just 6 of the satellites preparing to leave our Harwell facility. These satellites represent just a fraction of the pipeline rolling off our 24/7 assembly lines in Harwell. With functional and environmental testing currently underway across the full batch. We are officially gearing up for the next phase of the ConnectedCosmos constellation. ConnectedCosmos will enable direct point-to-point communications, delivering a truly sovereign global capability. By bypassing undersea cables entirely, this architecture removes the need to touch the public internet, introducing a brand-new level of network resiliency to the satcom sector. Turning this level of capability into reality is a massive effort from the entire team. #OpenCosmos #ConnectedCosmos #SatelliteManufacturing #Harwell #SatCom

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🛰️ Em artigo para ponto ISP, Flávio Franklin, da Globalsat Group, destaca como a integração entre redes via satélite, IA, nuvem e IoT impulsiona a transformação digital. #Satélites #Conectividade #Telecom 👉🏻 Saiba mais em nosso Site: pontoisp.com.br/conectividade-…

Esto se pondrá interesante con la entrada de Amazon Leo, SpaceX Starlink tendrá competencia, factores clave serán calidad de servicio y seguridad. @Globalsat será distribuidor desde Estados Unidos hasta la Patagonia y adivinen dónde comenzará el servicio. x.com/satelital_movi…

Noticias mundo 🅼🆂🆂 @Satelital_Movil

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El consorcio @Globalsat será distribuidor de Amazon Leo en las Américas: satelital-movil.com/2026/03/global…

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Tonight: Leo Atlas 8 (LA-08) Atlas V rolled to the pad with 29 Leo satellites – our final mission on Atlas V before transitioning to Vulcan with @ulalaunch. Launch is set for Thurs, Jul 2 at 12:24 a.m. ET from SLC-41. Livestream here: spr.ly/6011BDFkvR

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Next up: Leo Atlas 8 (LA-08) Our 29-satellite payload has been transferred to @ulalaunch for integration with Atlas V, and launch is set for Thurs, Jul 2 at 12:24 a.m. ET – adding to the 350+ Leo satellites already in orbit as we prepare to roll out service to customers.

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.@HitachiCME will use Amazon Leo to connect remote construction sites across the UK and Germany. Hitachi is the first construction machinery manufacturer to use Leo, and with a global network running on @AWS, will be able to use the service to move data directly from remote sites to existing cloud resources. spr.ly/6019BDgPAb

LE-03 deployment confirmed. Today's mission with @Arianespace sent another 36 Leo satellites into space–the heaviest commercial payload ever launched–and all spacecraft are in contact and operating nominally on orbit. Three Ariane 6 missions completed in less than five months, bringing our total constellation to 350+ satellites. Mission updates: spr.ly/6010BDMEUu

Every generation of wireless technology was supposed to unlock new revenue streams. The reality? Most of the value created by 4G and 5G flowed to companies like Apple, Google, Netflix, Uber, and TikTok not the network operators carrying the traffic. Clearly investors don't see @SpaceX as a communications company, seems @AST_SpaceMobile needs to pivot and fast.

Globalsat Group conecta mais de 700 locomotivas no setor ferroviário dlvr.it/TS3Z3J #teletimenews

Look back at Leo Atlas 7 (LA-07). With 300+ satellites on orbit, we're continuing to grow our constellation ahead of an initial service rollout this year. Leo will be back on the pad soon for LA-08, our final launch on Atlas V before transitioning to @ULALaunch's new heavy-lift Vulcan rocket.

A more powerful Ariane 64. Our largest Ariane payload yet. The next batch of Amazon Leo satellites arrived in French Guiana ahead of launch on Leo Europe 3 (LE-03) with @Arianespace. LE-03 will be our first mission aboard Ariane 64 with upgraded P160C boosters, enabling increased payload capacity as we continue scaling deployment of our constellation.

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