{"id":47899,"date":"2025-12-09T21:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-targets-first-mission-for-amazon-leo-in-early-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:57:57","slug":"arianespace-targets-first-mission-for-amazon-leo-in-early-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-targets-first-mission-for-amazon-leo-in-early-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Targets First Mission for Amazon Leo in Early 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Arianespace<\/b> has shipped key parts of an Ariane 6 rocket to French Guiana ahead of Arianespace\u2019s first <b>Amazon <\/b>mission, targeted for early 2026. The first batch of Amazon Leo satellites arrived in French Guiana earlier in November.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arianespace is under contract to deliver 18 Ariane 6 launches for Amazon\u2019s constellation \u2014 a large portion of the Arianespace 6 launch backlog.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first mission, VA267, will be the first for the Ariane 64 configuration with four boosters. This configuration is designed to deliver over 20 tons to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). The mission will launch 32 Amazon Leo satellites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdding a heavy-lift rocket like Ariane 6 to the manifest will allow us to deploy more satellites at a time and help accelerate deployment plans for Amazon Leo \u2014 we look forward to continuing to work with the Arianespace team as we prepare for that inaugural mission and subsequent launches on Ariane 6.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ariane 6 components are now in the midst of a multi-stop journey aboard Arianespace\u2019s Canop\u00e9e cargo ship to pick up other components and then travel to French Guiana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Leo, recently rebranded from Amazon Kuiper, is in the midst of a launch campaign with 153 satellites launched over six missions in 2025 between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has shipped key parts of an Ariane 6 rocket to French Guiana ahead of Arianespace\u2019s first Amazon mission, targeted for early 2026. The first batch of Amazon Leo satellites arrived in French Guiana earlier in November.&nbsp; Arianespace is under contract to deliver 18 Ariane 6 launches for Amazon\u2019s constellation \u2014 a large portion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47900,"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-47899","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\/47899"}],"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=47899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}