NATIONWIDE — What’s in a name? Amazon has changed the name of its Project Kuiper satellites to Amazon Leo.

“Project Kuiper” was actually a temporary name for the low-Earth satellites, which were named after the Kuiper Belt, a region in the outer solar system that has a ring of asteroids.

But as Amazon revealed, it always had plans to change that name.

“Now, we’re ready to share our permanent brand for the program: Amazon Leo, a simple nod to the low Earth orbit satellite constellation that powers our network,” the Washington-state company stated .

And Amazon “Leo” is a nice play on words. Low-Earth orbit is known as LEO and then there is the Zodiac constellation Leo , which is the “Lion”.

Like the SpaceX-company Starlink and its satellites that orbit Earth, Amazon’s Leo will have

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