{"id":48294,"date":"2025-10-04T00:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-secures-milestone-with-2-ghz-band-priority\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T00:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:17:33","slug":"echostar-secures-milestone-with-2-ghz-band-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-secures-milestone-with-2-ghz-band-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar Secures Milestone With 2 GHz Band Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>EchoStar <\/b>reached a milestone with some of its 2 GHz band spectrum, announcing Friday it secured highest priority spectrum rights in the 2 GHz band for a non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation. A <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> executive said this milestone is \u201chuge\u201d for the future Starlink Direct to Cell service in EchoStar\u2019s spectrum in Australia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EchoStar\u2019s subsidiary <strong>EchoStar Global Australia<\/strong> completed a process with the <strong>International Telecommunication Union<\/strong> (ITU) called \u201cBringing Back Into Use (BBIU)\u201d for the SIRION-1 satellite filing. EchoStar said that completing the BBIU process means all other operators in overlapping frequencies must coordinate with EchoStar under SIRION-1.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the BBIU process, EchoStar Global Australia launched the Lyra-4 satellite on June 28. It was a Rocket Lab mission for an undisclosed customer, now known to be the Lyra-4 IoT satellite. It is part of a series of NGSO satellites that have been launched as part of EchoStar Global Australia\u2019s Lyra constellation. The Lyra constellation uses SIRION filings that EchoStar acquired in the  Helios Wire acquisition in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis achievement is a critical step in powering next-generation direct-to-device (D2D) services, particularly in rural and regional areas across the globe,\u201d EchoStar said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David Goldman, vice president of Satellite Policy for SpaceX, weighed in with a post on X on what this means for SpaceX\u2019s Starlink Direct to Cell services. SpaceX is purchasing EchoStar\u2019s S-band and Mobile Satellite Spectrum (MSS) licenses for its Direct to Cell service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems wonky, but this announcement is huge for Australians,\u201d Goldman wrote. \u201cSpaceX will ultimately see EchoStar\u2019s global S-band rights power its next-gen Starlink Direct to Cell service. Completing the BBIU process means all other operators in overlapping frequencies must coordinate with SIRION-1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EchoStar reached a milestone with some of its 2 GHz band spectrum, announcing Friday it secured highest priority spectrum rights in the 2 GHz band for a non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation. A SpaceX executive said this milestone is \u201chuge\u201d for the future Starlink Direct to Cell service in EchoStar\u2019s spectrum in Australia.&nbsp; EchoStar\u2019s subsidiary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}