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Amazon Leo Network — Washington Senate Business, Financial Services & Trade Committee, December 4, 2025

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A presentation titled Amazon Leo Network, dated December 4, 2025, for the Washington Senate Business, Financial Services & Trade Committee. It describes Amazon Leo as Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network and lists customer antennas named Leo Nano, Leo Pro and Leo Ultra, with downlink speeds of 100 Mbps, 400 Mbps and 1,000 Mbps. It states that Amazon Leo is headquartered in Washington state, with a 172,000-sq-ft satellite manufacturing facility in Kirkland. A mission update states that 6 launches have deployed a total of 153 satellites.

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Congressional materials
Date
2025-12-04

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“Amazon Leo Network — Washington Senate Business, Financial Services & Trade Committee, December 4, 2025.” Original at app.leg.wa.gov, dated 2025-12-04. Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/2025-12-04-2025-12-04-a33537-d289970-beth-cooley-amazon-amazon-leo-overview-ppt/, SHA-256 1bf1ccfab6e46a321361aa2df621506f06ec3f8de3d6dd888c886c694fcaac9c.

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Washington Senate Business, Financial Services
& Trade Committee
December 4, 2025
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s
low Earth orbit satellite
broadband network.




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                                                                      Amazon Leo Network

                                                                                             Optical mesh
                                                                                               network


Space




Earth                                  Customer terminals                                                                              Gateway stations




        Public subnet                    Private subnet                Edge services                                                       Network core

        Employee welfare & streaming     Directory services / email    AWS Internet of Things core


        Video conferencing               Data warehouse                Machine learning


        Virtual private network          Private 5G                    Security

                                                                                                                 AWS         AWS Transit     Amazon virtual   Internet   Virtual private network,
        Public communications            Cellular backhaul             Outposts                             Direct Connect    Gateway         private cloud                    other clouds




3                                                                                                    A
Customer antennas
    Leo Nano                  Leo Pro                 Leo Ultra
    Ultra-small form factor   Built for performance   Enterprise focused
    100 Mbps downlink         400 Mbps downlink       1,000 Mbps downlink

    7” x 7”                   11” x 11”               20” x 30”
    18cm x 18cm               28cm x 28cm             51cm x 76cm




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Satellite
manufacturing
Amazon Leo is headquartered in
Washington state with a 219,00-sq-ft
research and development facility in
Redmond and a 172,000-sq-ft satellite
manufacturing facility in Kirkland.




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AMAZON LEO WASHINGTON
COMMITMENT
Washington plays a critical role in Amazon Leo. Our investments in
state-of-the-art facilities also generate advanced manufacturing job
opportunities for Washingtonians.

R&D Headquarters in Redmond
State-of-the-art facility the size of more than four football fields serves as the primary
headquarters for research and development

Satellite Production Facility in Kirkland
Capability to build up to five satellites per day at peak capacity

Logistics Center in Everett
Supports supply chain reliability, helps streamline our satellite manufacturing process,
and manage inventory of third-party materials

Partnership with Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Created LWTech’s first-ever satellite technician certificate program to prepare students
in Washington state for careers in the growing space industry

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Mission updates
As of today,


    6 launches
have deployed a total of



153              satellites




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Thank you


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