Iridium’s shares closed down more than 7% Oct. 23 after the satellite operator lowered its full-year service revenue outlook again, while withdrawing its $1 billion target for 2030 amid mounting competition from SpaceX.

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Lynk Global plans to merge with Omnispace to upgrade its direct-to-device services with globally coordinated S-band spectrum, joining SpaceX and AST SpaceMobile in shoring up satellite frequencies after initially relying on cellular partnerships.

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SpaceX is supplying optical terminals to Muon Space, the four-year-old Californian manufacturer said Oct. 21, enabling its future Halo satellites to use the Starlink broadband constellation as a global data-relay network.

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NASA’s acting administrator says he will “open up the contract” SpaceX holds to land astronauts on the moon for the Artemis 3 mission because the company has fallen behind schedule.

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The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX’s proposal to double its launch rate at Vandenberg Space Force Base and begin using a second launch pad there.

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This was the second plane of satellites for Tranche 1 of the Transport Layer, part of a planned global network of data transport and sensor satellites known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture

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Equatys, the U.S.-based Viasat and Emirati satellite operator Space42’s shared space infrastructure joint venture for direct-to-device services, has gained its first mobile network partner as it seeks to challenge SpaceX’s growing lead in the emerging market.

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SpaceX successfully completed the final flight of version 2 of Starship on Oct. 13, performing in-flight tests as the company prepares to introduce an upgraded version of the reusable rocket.

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SpaceX is set to conduct its next Starship test flight as the company continues to test the launch vehicle and play well with others in airspace.

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SpaceX was assigned five of seven National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 missions. United Launch Alliance got two.

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EchoStar said Oct. 3 it has met regulatory conditions needed to maintain rights to the global S-band spectrum it is selling to SpaceX in a deal worth more than $17 billion.

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The direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity market has been completely transformed in the space of six weeks. On Aug. 1, U.S.-based EchoStar ordered 100 satellites from Canada’s MDA Space for a planned […]

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Satellite operators are asking an international regulator to help maintain lines of communication among them to deal with potential conjunctions and other space safety issues.

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The launch of NROL-48 marked the eleventh launch in the NRO’s growing proliferated architecture

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SpaceX expects to begin testing direct-to-device services using newly acquired spectrum from EchoStar as soon as the end of next year.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Starbase is SpaceX’s massive rocket development site and the home of Starship — the vehicle Elon Musk envisions as humanity’s path to Mars and that many in the […]

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EchoStar is looking for ways to expand its communications business as an “asset-light growth company,” CEO Hamid Akhavan said Sept. 15.

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The satellites, made by York Space Systems, make up the first plane of a mesh network projected to have 126 spacecraft

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Why do people defend someone who has done things that are frankly terrible?

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Europe has kicked off a study to improve direct-to-device (D2D) services using satellite spectrum, just as SpaceX inks a multibillion-dollar deal for space-approved frequencies to expand its own 5G services.

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EchoStar has abandoned its plans to create a direct-to-device satellite constellation in low Earth orbit, selling spectrum to SpaceX while canceling a brand-new contract with MDA Space.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a European reconnaissance satellite and several secondary payloads Aug. 26 in another example of the company’s rideshare launch services efforts.

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SpaceX completed a largely successful test flight of its Starship vehicle Aug. 26, putting the vehicle’s development program back on track after a series of failures earlier this year.

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A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft launched early Aug. 24 will not only deliver supplies and experiments to the International Space Station but also help the station maintain its orbit.

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