The new name is Amazon Leo. Amazon Leo uses five different launch vehicles, a multi-provider strategy designed to reduce single-point-of-failure risk and maximize deployment cadence. Under Amazon’s acquisition, that relationship, and the spectrum supporting it, would transfer to Amazon Leo, pending regulatory approval. The direct-to-device satellite services already running on hundreds of millions of iPhones will, pending regulatory sign-off, route through Amazon Leo infrastructure instead. That is a different race, and as of April 2026, Amazon has planted its flag in the direct-to-device landscape in a way its rival did not anticipate.