{"id":47579,"date":"2026-02-12T21:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-launches-32-amazon-leo-satellites-in-first-ariane-64-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:59:24","slug":"arianespace-launches-32-amazon-leo-satellites-in-first-ariane-64-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-launches-32-amazon-leo-satellites-in-first-ariane-64-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Launches 32 Amazon Leo Satellites in First Ariane 64 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace <\/strong>inaugurated a new configuration for the Ariane 6 rocket, placing 32 <strong>Amazon Leo <\/strong>satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Thursday. The mission marked the first in a series of 18 launches contracted by the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>The mission took off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana at 1:45 p.m. local time, and lasted 1 hour and 54 minutes. It was Amazon Leo\u2019s first deployment by a European launcher.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the first mission for Arianespace\u2019s Ariane 64 launcher, a new configuration of its Ariane 6 platform that utilizes 4 boosters. The payload was the heaviest the company had placed into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis successful entry into service once again highlights the quality of the teams at ArianeGroup and its European partners,\u201d ArianeGroup CEO Martin Sion said. \u201cNow, Europe has two versions of Ariane 6 heavy launcher to meet all of its needs. Our teams are already working to improve the launcher\u2019s competitiveness through the development of evolutions that will increase its payload capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This launch takes the Amazon Leo constellation to 212 satellites. Amazon leadership recently said the company is expecting 20 launches this year, and more than 30 in 2027. Amazon Leo is a LEO satellite broadband competitor to SpaceX Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb targeting the consumer, enterprise, and government markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace inaugurated a new configuration for the Ariane 6 rocket, placing 32 Amazon Leo satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Thursday. The mission marked the first in a series of 18 launches contracted by the two companies. The mission took off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana at 1:45 p.m. local time, and lasted 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}