SpaceX holds spectrum licenses for the Starlink fixed Internet service for homes and businesses. Adding the EchoStar spectrum will make its holdings suitable for mobile service. “SpaceX currently holds no terrestrial spectrum authorizations and no license to use spectrum allocated on a primary basis to MSS,” the company’s FCC filing said. “Its only authorization to provide any form of mobile …
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Below the Sky/Shutterstock Starlink,a division of SpaceX, provides satellite internet around the world. It is ideal for those who live in rural areas as connection speeds are often improved over what local companies offer. It’s also useful for travelers who want to take their internet with them on the road. Instead of …
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Watch from multiple locations as a Starlink satellite reenters Earth’s atmosphere, burning up over California, on September 25, 2025. Currently, there are 1 to 2 Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day. Soon there will be more. Starlink satellites are falling It might not be long before you look up and see a fiery, slow-moving object streaking across your …
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The western part of North America has been treated to an unofficial light show over the last week or so. People in California and Canada have spotted what look like meteorites falling from the sky, but it’s not a space rock that is burning up in the atmosphere—it’s just a sign someone is going to have a slightly slower internet …
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MILAN – A report from Italy’s space policy office questioned whether the country is underrepresented in the IRIS² program, the European Union’s planned public-private communication constellation for low and medium earth orbit, while acknowledging SpaceX has offered to provide Starlink services for the country. Combined, the two points raised new questions about Italy’s position on Starlink. Those conversations come just months before …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the dusk sky over southern California on Sunday (Sept. 28) as it carried a new stack of 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The evening launch at 10:04 p.m. EDT (0204 GMT on Sept. 29 or 7:04 p.m. PDT local time) from Vandenberg Space Force Base successfully reached space in just under …
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SpaceX launched two dozen more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit this morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast today at 12:26 a.m. EDT (0426 GMT; 9:26 p.m. on Sept. 25 local California time). About 8.5 minutes later, the Falcon 9’s first stage touched down on …
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File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX Update Sept. 26, 1 a.m. EDT: SpaceX deployed the 24 Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched its third Falcon 9 rocket in less than 41 hours. Completing the trio of flights, along with …
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File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update Sept. 25, 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the droneship. SpaceX was back at the launch pad Thursday morning, launching its 86th Starlink mission of the year so far. The Starlink 10-15 …
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SpaceX launched its 119th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Sept. 21), sending another batch of its Starlink internet satellites aloft from Florida’s Space Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth as …
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