Amazon Buys Satellite Group Globalstar for $11 Billion

The deal gives the tech giant an existing satellite network as it continues to build its own.

A display stand for Amazon's Project Kuiper (now Amazon Leo), a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, at the DSEI exhibition at Excel in London on Sept. 10, 2025. Chris Summers/The Epoch Times

Amazon is spending more than $11.5 billion to buy satellite operator Globalstar, its biggest push yet into the space-based internet business as it tries to catch up with SpaceX’s Starlink.

Under the deal announced Tuesday, Globalstar’s low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation of 24 satellites will operate alongside Amazon Leo’s broadband network and its planned direct-to-device satellite system. Amazon also inherits Globalstar’s infrastructure and mobile satellite services spectrum licenses.