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SpaceX shells out $17B for EchoStar spectrum to fast-track Starlink direct-to-cell 5G

SpaceX has agreed to buy $17 billion of wireless spectrum from EchoStar to underpin Starlink’s push into direct-to-cell satellite-to-phone service, potentially enabling space-delivered 5G. The transaction marks an aggressive market entry but depends on more capable satellites and the still-in-development Starship for launches.

2025-09-09T14:47:35.338442-07:00

SpaceNews.com

FCC ends probe, clearing EchoStar's >$40B spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX

2025-09-09T11:59:20.493936-07:00

Wall Street Journal

Starship’s 10th Test Flight Largely Successful — Deploys Eight Mock Starlink Sats and Validates Heat‑Shield Tiles

2025-08-26T18:23:49.861540-07:00

SpaceNews.com

GHGSat satellites to feed ExxonMobil’s COMET for large-scale onshore methane monitoring

2025-09-05T10:09:28.604365-07:00

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Are satellite-enabled services inflating the space economy? Rising estimates of the global space economy may overstate the sector's size by counting satellite-enabled downstream services — telecom, data analytics and location services — as 'space' revenue. This analysis questions headline methodologies and urges clearer separation between orbital activity and terrestrial service value.

2025-09-10T18:05:24.614749-07:00

Are satellite-enabled services inflating the space economy?

rnz.co.nz

Defence chiefs told top US space commander New Zealand could help by rapidly launching satellites

2025-09-10T14:56:04.273087-07:00

spaceinafrica.com

Kazakhstan signs satellite manufacturing agreements with Nigeria and DRC worth up to $75M Kazakhstan has signed satellite manufacturing agreements with Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo valued at up to US$75 million. The accords commit Kazakh organisations to build satellites for the two African states, representing a cross‑regional industrial pact in space manufacturing.

2025-09-10T08:58:31.058205-07:00

Kazakhstan signs satellite manufacturing agreements with Nigeria and DRC worth up to $75M

eu-startups.com

London's Messium raises €3.8M to use hyperspectral satellites and AI to boost nitrogen efficiency in agriculture Messium, a London-based AgriTech startup, has raised €3.8 million to commercialize hyperspectral satellite sensing combined with AI-driven crop-growth models aimed at improving nitrogen-use efficiency. The funding will accelerate deployment of satellite-derived analytics and expand its data-product offerings to farmers and agronomy services.

2025-09-10T08:49:12.909880-07:00

London's Messium raises €3.8M to use hyperspectral satellites and AI to boost nitrogen efficiency in agriculture

IEEE

White-hat hackers expose critical vulnerabilities in satellite command-and-control software White-hat hackers have uncovered critical vulnerabilities in satellite command-and-control software used to operate commercial and government satellites, demonstrating how flaws in ground-to-space control stacks could allow unauthorized access, command injection or service disruption. The findings raise urgent questions about the resilience of satellite operations and ground networks.

2025-09-10T08:33:37.091563-07:00

White-hat hackers expose critical vulnerabilities in satellite command-and-control software

Space.com

SpaceX launches 21 satellites for SDA Tranche 1 transport-layer from Vandenberg SpaceX on Sept. 10 launched 21 York Space Systems‑built satellites on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, inaugurating the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer. The flight begins a roughly 10‑month campaign to field a planned 126‑satellite LEO mesh for low‑latency military data transport.

2025-09-10T07:37:23.658088-07:00

SpaceX launches 21 satellites for SDA Tranche 1 transport-layer from Vandenberg

defence-industry.eu

ICEYE unveils 20‑ft containerised 'ISR Cell' to deliver near‑real‑time SAR tactical intelligence ICEYE unveiled a military‑grade, 20‑ft containerised ISR Cell at DSEI 2025 that gives defence units direct, near‑real‑time access to its SAR satellites, enabling on‑site tasking, imagery downlink and edge AI analytics to compress the space‑to‑tactical ISR loop from hours to minutes.

2025-09-10T06:13:11.428347-07:00

ICEYE unveils 20‑ft containerised 'ISR Cell' to deliver near‑real‑time SAR tactical intelligence

satnews

AAC Clyde Space to lead system design for ESA-backed COMCUBE-S satellite swarm first phase AAC Clyde Space will lead system design for the first phase of the ESA-backed COMCUBE-S mission, developing a coordinated satellite swarm in partnership with project lead University College Dublin. The work leverages the firm's ESA-funded xSPANCION experience and reinforces its end-to-end smallsat mission capability.

2025-09-09T16:37:18.924759-07:00

AAC Clyde Space to lead system design for ESA-backed COMCUBE-S satellite swarm first phase

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