SpaceX to Acquire EchoStar AWS-3 Spectrum Licenses in $2.6 Billion Stock Deal
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
EchoStar has amended its agreement with SpaceX to sell its entire portfolio of unpaired AWS-3 spectrum licenses for approximately $2.6 billion in SpaceX stock, valued as of September 2025. These nationwide licenses are part of 3GPP Band 70n, providing uplink frequencies from 1695 to 1710 MHz, and the deal builds on an earlier agreement between the two companies announced in September.
The Student CubeSat set for launch to support NASA IMAP mission with space weather data collection
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
A group of undergraduate students from the University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University, and Howard University have collaboratively designed and built a CubeSat called 3UCubed, now scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, no earlier than November 10, 2025.
The small satellite mission is linked to NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Accelerat Austrian PRETTY CubeSat joins ESA OPS-SAT Space Lab under Graz leadership
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
The Austrian Space Agency and the European Space Agency have extended the mission for the PRETTY CubeSat, which will continue under the OPS-SAT Space Lab with management transferred to Graz University of Technology.
PRETTY, developed jointly by TU Graz, Beyond Gravity Austria, and Seibersdorf Laboratories, has orbited for over two years in a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude just First evidence of Ice XXI phase observed at extreme pressure and room temperature
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has observed for the first time the multiple freezing-melting process of water at room temperature under ultrahigh pressures exceeding 2 gigapascals and on a microsecond timescale. This has resulted in the discovery of a previously unknown crystallization pathway and the identification of a new ice phase named Ice XXI.
Ice gener FSU physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, computers and more, through the movement of electrons within a circuit. While we can't see these electrons, electric currents moving through a conductor flow like water through a pipe to produce electricity.
Certain materials, however, allow that electron flow to "freeze" into crystallized shapes, triggering a transition in the stat FCC commissioner warns U.S. influence on satellite spectrum debates could wane
Thursday, 06 November 2025 22:21
A member of the Federal Communications Commission warned that declining American influence could make it harder to secure support for key satellite industry priorities at international conferences.
BlackSky hit by U.S. budget cuts, but international demand lifts outlook
Thursday, 06 November 2025 20:23
Despite the domestic headwinds, BlackSky is seeing a sharp uptick in overseas business.
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Sceye wins NASA award for stratospheric Earth observations
Thursday, 06 November 2025 17:44
A company developing stratospheric platforms for telecommunications and related applications has won a NASA award to use that platform for environmental monitoring.
EchoStar sells more spectrum in $2.6 billion deal for bigger SpaceX stake
Thursday, 06 November 2025 16:39
Geostationary satellite operator EchoStar is selling another batch of radio frequencies to help improve SpaceX’s direct-to-cell services in the United States, in return for $2.6 billion worth of the company’s stock.
D-Orbit and mhackeroni conduct in-orbit cybersecurity competition
Thursday, 06 November 2025 16:38
SAN FRANCISCO – Italian space logistics company D-Orbit announced the conclusion Nov. 6 of CTRL+Space, Europe’s first in-orbit Capture-the-Flag (CTF) cybersecurity competition and the first live CTF contest involving multiple satellites.
How Vast plans to keep humanity in orbit
Thursday, 06 November 2025 13:15
In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Max Haot, CEO of Vast, the ambitious aerospace company based in Long Beach, California, that’s one of a very companies few working diligently towards the first commercial space station.
Nuclear energy is key to American leadership in space
Thursday, 06 November 2025 12:00
The future of American leadership in space will hinge on one factor: the ability to generate high power on orbit and on the surface of celestial bodies such as the moon.
Who has the best map of orbit?
Thursday, 06 November 2025 12:00
How precise are satellite collision-avoidance platforms? Artificial intelligence is helping space trackers get a handle on increasingly congested orbits, but physics and math are only part of the challenge in a domain where debris, satellite maneuvers and solar weather can quickly rewrite the map.
Managing space domain awareness data has become a greater challenge than collecting it
Thursday, 06 November 2025 11:00

