Space.com
• Mike Wall
SpaceX launched EchoStar XXV, a roughly 15,000‑lb direct‑broadcast television satellite for Dish Network. EchoStar XXV is intended to beam TV signals directly to Dish subscribers across the U.S., and the flight represented SpaceX's 30th mission of the year, highlighting the company's rapid launch cadence.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: With NASA committed to a human return to the moon, Mars exploration advocates say those lunar missions can be useful to achieve their long-term goals.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
By Ars Technica: It's a big fat middle finger for those that thought they had something.".
NASA
• Abbey Interrante
By NASA: NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — EchoStar Corp. Chairman Charles W. Ergen covered SpaceX with praise in September….
NASA Spaceflight
• Ryan Weber
By NASA Spaceflight: For the first time since Flight 11 on Oct 13, 2025, 147 days ago, SpaceX….
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Swissto12 CEO Emile de Rijk joins On Orbit to talk about the company’s cutting edge payload technology how its approach to smaller, more flexible GEO satellites fits in with the issue of sovereign space.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Space.com
• Samantha Mathewson
