AMAZON BUILDS ITS 1,000TH LEO SATELLITE AT 27 A WEEK, BUT ONLY 396 ARE IN ORBIT

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Amazon built its 1,000th Leo broadband satellite at its Kirkland, Washington plant, which took six months to produce its first 27 and now turns out 27 a week. It builds propulsion in-house and borrowed consumer electronics methods to cut tests that took weeks down to hours. The bottleneck is launch: only 396 are in orbit against 3,232 needed, and the Vulcan grounding and a New Glenn pad explosion cost Amazon FCC spectrum priority.