Amazon Renames Satellite Internet Effort to Amazon Leo

November 13, 2025

Amazon has a new name for its satellite internet effort: Amazon Leo, a reference to its constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit.

In a blog post , Rajeev Badyal, an Amazon Leo vice president, said that the satellite effort’s previous name, Project Kuiper, was a codename, which was inspired by the Kuiper Belt, a ring of asteroids in the outer solar system. Amazon’s initial constellation