SpaceX buys wireless spectrum from EchoStar in $17 billion deal

Reuters ^ | September 8, 2025 | David Shepardson and Joey Roulette

[SunkenCiv]

Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur, Shinjini Ganguli and Franklin Paul

[rktman]

Keep it up and we’ll be blocking the sun out. 😳😂👍

[marktwain]

Direct to satellite cell service has considerable potential to undermine state censorship...

[SunkenCiv]

(around the 11 minute mark, Starlink v3 "pez" may be launched during Starship 11; the dummy versions to test the dispenser flew on Starship 10 and worked beautifully - 'Civ)

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[Red Badger]

Skynet............

[minnesota_bound]

Stock price Way UP $53 in a few weeks.
Some insiders made a fortune like congressmen...

It went from $29.88 on Aug 25 to today at 83.41

Check the month chart for EchoStar Corp
https://tinyurl.com/bdhr9ree

[DouglasKC]

Direct to satellite cell service has considerable potential to undermine state censorship..

It's a big reason why I went with Starlink.

[1Old Pro]

The spectrum purchase allows SpaceX to start building and deploying upgraded, laser-connected satellites that the company said will expand the cell network's capacity by "more than 100 times."

That's gonna be a big network.

[SunkenCiv]

That would have been nice, huh? 🤔

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, that’ll result in the global warming hoaxters Shuttin’ TFU. 😜

[rktman]

Where there is govt, there is a way. 🤔😂👍

[marktwain]

A year ago, Starlink had 4 million subscribers. At that level it has been reported to be profitable. Profits were said to be 12 million on revenues of about $700 million. The estimate is for revenues to be above 12 billion in 2025.

The 4 million customers do not include the maritime customers of 75,000 ships and 3000 cruise ships, or government contracts.

Elon Musk says he expects $18 billion a year in profits - but did not put a date on it.

Projections are for the possibility of Starlink to obtain over a billion subscribers.

[SmokingJoe]

Wait till they start deploying version 3 satellites with Starship by end of year/early next year.
Gonna change the world.

[bigbob]

another brilliant move by the most powerful man on the planet, Elon Musk.

[Blueflag]

I expect Starlink will acquire ASTS and their birds, since ASTS has FAR better carrier-aligned, direct to cell capability. Just not the # of birds.

[Albion Wilde]

Elon Musk's SpaceX said Monday it will buy wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar (SATS.O), opens new tab for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion

[SunkenCiv]

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with the Nusantara Lima (N5) satellite from private Indonesian satellite company, Satelit Nusarntara Lima (SNL), a subsidiary of Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN). Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 9:37 p.m. EDT (0137 UTC on Sept. 10). The first-stage booster for this mission, tail number B1078, making its 23rd flight, will target a landing on SpaceX's drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas' (ASOG), stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 8.5 minutes after leaving the launch pad.

Watch live: SpaceX launches Indonesia's Nusantara Lima
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[SunkenCiv]

Thx!

https://search.brave.com/search?q=ASTS

[SunkenCiv]

Heh, I think he was in Congress long enough that, when he coined that one, it was million instead of billion. 😁

[SunkenCiv]

SCRUB! (weather problem)