SpaceX to loft EchoStar-25 direct TV satellite from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX plans to launch EchoStar-25, a Dish Network direct-broadcast satellite built by Lanteris Space, atop a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral to GEO via a geosynchronous transfer orbit, with a 149-minute window and a plan to land the first stage on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas; the satellite operates in the 12.2–12.7 GHz (space-to-Earth) and 17.3–17.8 GHz (Earth-to-space) bands and represents EchoStar’s latest Dish satellite in its long-running collaboration with SpaceX, which follows EchoStar’s 2025 spectrum sale for Starlink Mobile.