Overview
- Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40 at 12:19 a.m. EDT on March 10, sending EchoStar XXV toward geosynchronous transfer orbit.
- First stage booster B1085 flew for the 14th time and landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.
- EchoStar XXV restores Dish’s direct-to-home broadcast capacity after a 16-year gap since its last new broadcast satellite.
- Built by Lanteris on the 1300-series bus, the satellite is bound for the 110° West slot to serve television customers across North America.
- EchoStar’s previously announced $17 billion sale of spectrum licenses to SpaceX remains pending before regulators, framing deeper collaboration around satellite services.