Amazon Leo has applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for fixed-gateway ground stations in three states.. The company has submitted paperwork for a gateway in St. Lucie County, Florida; Norman County, Minnesota; and Gaines County, Texas..
“Prompt grant of this application will accelerate the deployment of the Amazon Leo Systems and its ability to expand broadband access for consumers, schools, hospitals, businesses, and other organizations across the United States,” the 47-page Florida application penned by Kuiper Systems corporate counsel Negheen H. Sanjar reads..
The Florida deployment is set to be located at 10161 Range Line Rd in Port St. Lucie, a teleport operated by United Teleports. The Minnesota deployment is planned at 3652 170th Avenue, a vacant plot in Twin Valley.
The Texas deployment is planned for 2271 FM 1757 in Seminole.. In December 2025, Amazon Leo cited a plan to install more than 300 ground stations to scale its downstream capacity for its planned 3,232-satellite constellation. The full Kuiper fleet is intended to deliver 117 terabits per second once fully deployed..
The applications state the company’s commitment to invest more than $10 billion in Amazon Leo, making use of the conglomerate’s deep in-house expertise.. The Florida, Minnesota, and Texas gateways will consist of six 2.4-meter antennas in the bands of 27.5-30 GHz, 17.8-18.6 GHz, and 18.8-20.2 GHz, with no more than four antennas transmitting on the same channel at any one time..
The applications drew attention to the FCC’s finding that its own Equivalent Power Flux Density (EPFD) limits were “needlessly prescriptive, outdated, and overprotective of geostationary operations,” which possessed the capacity to “unreasonably constrain services by innovative new non-geostationary systems.”. These conclusions, optimized for what is sometimes described as the new-newspace era of the 2020s, gave rise to an overhaul of the commission’s licensing process, with a mind to create “a consistent, predictable, and objective assembly line process.”.
This new approach boasted the potential for applications to be immediately granted on the presumption of public interest, with the paperwork’s non-standardized narrative description only being read and cross-examined if it fails to meet a set of seven “bright-line criteria” categories highly unlikely to trip up an all-American power player like Amazon Leo.. Last month, another Bezos space company, Blue Origin, announced the start of its rollout of Quartz ground stations with partner RBC Signals, testing three sites in Bermuda, New Zealand, and Australia..
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