… Ed Markey D-Mass. has urged Amazon to discontinue the Familiar Faces feature. Markey sent Amazon a letter in October 2025 asking how Familiar Faces works, and summarized Amazon’s responses in a February 2026 letter that repeated his call to end Familiar Faces. …
… Amazon also added 10 more launches on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on top of three Falcon 9 launches for Amazon Leo last year. Meanwhile, in French Guiana, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has launched two dedicated missions for Amazon Leo, each with 32 satellites. …
… Haot expects that about 90 percent of these will be satellites built by SpaceX, Amazon, Blue Origin, or other major players. …
… Vulcan’s next flight is expected to be for a commercial customer, Amazon, sometime this summer. …
… Eric Berger is the senior space editor at Ars Technica, covering everything from astronomy to private space to NASA policy, and author of two books: Liftoff , about the rise of SpaceX; and Reentry , on the development of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon. …