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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation / Updated: 2025-06-28 08:00

This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation / Updated: 2025-06-28 08:00

China’s Zhongxing-9C satellite was launched on June 20, 2025, atop a Long March 3B from Xichang, marking the full localization of Chinese broadcast satellites in the 582nd Long March flight. SpaceX launched the Starlink 10-34 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, deploying 27 Starlink satellites and bringing the active constellation to nearly 8,000, with the booster marking its fifth flight. Rocket Lab’s Get The Hawk Outta Here mission placed four HawkEye 360 satellites into orbit, including three microsats for RF geolocation and the experimental Kestrel-0A. EarthDaily launched its first satellite to begin a ten-satellite constellation delivering AI-powered daily global
28 June 2025
Robotics and Automation Trends 2025: Industry Breakthroughs and Market Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Robotics and Automation Trends 2025: Industry Breakthroughs and Market Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

In 2024 the value of new industrial robot installations reached $16.5 billion, with over 4.28 million robots operating in factories worldwide. Asia accounted for 70% of new robot installations in 2023, with China alone representing 51% of 2023 installations. In 2025 robotics is being transformed by AI, with analytical AI, Physical AI simulators like NVIDIA’s Omniverse and Isaac, and Generative AI driving a “ChatGPT moment” for physical robots. Humanoid robots like Tesla’s Optimus target about $20,000 per unit, with forecasts calling for about 40,000 units by 2032 and a $38–66 billion market by 2035. In 2024 Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci
28 June 2025
QuantumScape 2025: Latest News, Solid-State Battery Breakthroughs, Financials & Outlook (June 27th, 2025)

QuantumScape 2025: Latest News, Solid-State Battery Breakthroughs, Financials & Outlook (June 27th, 2025)

Cobra, QuantumScape’s ceramic separator manufacturing process, was integrated into baseline production in June 2025, delivering ~25× faster heat-treatment and a dramatically smaller equipment footprint. The company’s stock surged from about $4.33 on June 24, 2025 to $7.65 on June 26, 2025, a roughly 47% year-to-date gain by mid-2025. In April 2025, QuantumScape announced a strategic collaboration with Murata Manufacturing to support high-volume production of ceramic separators using the Cobra process. Volkswagen Group’s PowerCo license to produce QuantumScape solid-state cells up to 40 GWh per year (expandable to 80 GWh) was established in mid-2024. In March 2024 QuantumScape began shipping Alpha-2
28 June 2025
Today in Space / June 28, 2025 0:00

Today in Space / June 28, 2025 0:00

SpaceX’s Starship suffered a further explosion during a static-fire test at Starbase, Texas, as the company has now completed nine Starship test flights with a record launch cadence in 2024–2025. SpaceX’s Axiom-4 mission docked with the International Space Station, marking India’s return to human spaceflight after 41 years as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian to reach the ISS, with Peggy Whitson leading a two-week, 60+ experiment research phase. NASA and Northrop Grumman conducted the Booster Obsolescence Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor test for the Artemis program, which ended with a nozzle explosion but yielded data for
28 June 2025
NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

Recent News and Highlights (Mid-2025) Table 1 – NVIDIA’s Explosive Revenue Growth (Fiscal year ends late January; FY2025 covers Feb 2024–Jan 2025) Fiscal Year Annual Revenue (USD) YoY Growth FY2023 (ended Jan 2023) $26.97 billion macrotrends.net macrotrends.net +0.2% macrotrends.net (flat) FY2024 (ended Jan 2024) $60.92 billion macrotrends.net macrotrends.net +125.9% macrotrends.net FY2025 (ended Jan 2025) $130.50 billion nvidianews.nvidia.com macrotrends.net +114.2% macrotrends.net NVIDIA’s revenues more than doubled in both FY2024 and FY2025, driven by the surge in data center AI hardware demand. macrotrends.net Corporate History and Evolution Founding and GPU Leadership: NVIDIA was founded in 1993 in California by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem en.wikipedia.org. Initially a PC
27 June 2025
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XRP and Ripple Labs in 2025: SEC Lawsuit Updates, Partnerships, Tech Progress & Future Outlook (June’25 Report)

XRP and Ripple Labs in 2025: SEC Lawsuit Updates, Partnerships, Tech Progress & Future Outlook (June’25 Report)

Latest Updates: XRP and Ripple Labs (2024–2025) Recent years have been eventful for XRP (the cryptocurrency) and Ripple Labs (the company behind it). Key developments include: Background: What Are XRP and Ripple Labs? XRP is a digital asset native to the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a blockchain originally launched in 2012 by Ripple’s founders 21shares.com. It was designed from the ground up to improve on Bitcoin’s slow, energy-intensive system by enabling fast and low-cost value transfer. XRP serves primarily as a bridge currency for cross-border transactions – a tool to move money instantly between different currencies – and as “digital cash”
27 June 2025
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SpaceX: Mid-2025 Comprehensive Report (June 27th, 2025)

SpaceX: Mid-2025 Comprehensive Report (June 27th, 2025)

Summary of Recent Developments (Mid-2025) SpaceX’s Starship vehicle lifting off on its ninth test flight from Starbase, Texas in May 2025. Starship is the company’s next-generation, fully-reusable rocket system under development. In summary, by mid-2025 SpaceX is breaking launch records, advancing Starship’s development amid regulatory hurdles, expanding its Starlink network, and securing a growing share of civil and commercial space contracts. The following sections provide an in-depth analysis of the company’s history, technology, strategy, competition, and outlook. Company Background and History Founding and Vision: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the audacious
27 June 2025
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Latest Fintech and Digital Finance Trends (June 27th, 2025)

Latest Fintech and Digital Finance Trends (June 27th, 2025)

Q1 2025 fintech funding jumped 18% quarter-over-quarter to over $10 billion, the highest level in two years. The U.S. FedNow real-time payment rails had onboarded more than 1,200 banks by early 2025 and processed 1.3 million transactions in Q1 2025, up 43% QoQ. In June 2025, the European Payments Initiative launched a cross-border collaboration to expand pan-European instant payments and integrate a Wero digital wallet, with Revolut partnering to bring Wero to France, Belgium, and Germany; Wero, launched in 2024, already has 40+ million users. Shift4 Payments announced in June 2025 a definitive agreement to acquire Smartpay for $180 million
27 June 2025
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Global Semiconductor Industry Trends and 2025 Outlook: AI Boom, Advanced Nodes, and Geopolitics (Report: June 27th, 2025)

Global Semiconductor Industry Trends and 2025 Outlook: AI Boom, Advanced Nodes, and Geopolitics (Report: June 27th, 2025)

Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted for roughly 25% of total market, with HBM revenues expected to grow 66% in 2025 to $19.8 billion. TSMC’s 2nm node (N2) is in pilot production with high-volume manufacturing planned for 2H 2025, aiming for about 50,000 wafer starts per month by end-2025, with Apple
27 June 2025
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SEO in 2025: Embracing AI, User Experience & Evolving Search Algorithms (June 2025)

SEO in 2025: Embracing AI, User Experience & Evolving Search Algorithms (June 2025)

From March 13–27, 2025, Google rolled out a broad Core Update focused on relevance, quality and user intent. In 2024 Google released four confirmed core updates (March, August, November, December), with the December update rolling out in six days—the fastest on record. Google’s 2024 spam updates targeted keyword spam, malicious content, and link schemes, with SpamBrain and a scaled-content policy emphasizing behavior over quantity. By 2025, Core Web Vitals consist of LCP, CLS and INP, with INP replacing FID and thresholds of LCP under ~2.5s, CLS under 0.1, and INP in a good range. Google’s mobile-first indexing is fully in
27 June 2025
Top Biotechnology and Health Tech Trends in 2025: Mid-Year Update and Forecast (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Top Biotechnology and Health Tech Trends in 2025: Mid-Year Update and Forecast (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Late 2024, the first FDA-approved CRISPR-based therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy) reached patients, with Vertex reporting $2 million in revenue from this sickle-cell gene-editing therapy in Q3 2024. Prime Medicine’s PM359 autologous CRISPR prime-edited cell therapy for chronic granulomatous disease began a Phase I/II study in 2024, with initial first-in-human data expected in late 2025. Wave Life Sciences’ RNA base-editing drug WVE-006 showed proof-of-mechanism in humans in 2024, and multi-dose trial data are anticipated in 2025. In April 2025, the FDA approved Abeona Therapeutics’ Zevaskyn, the first cell-based gene therapy for the rare skin disorder RDEB, with launch planned in Q3
27 June 2025
Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Latest Digital Trends as of Mid‑2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Gartner projects worldwide generative AI spending will reach $644 billion in 2025, up 76% from 2024. By mid-2025, over 72% of companies have adopted some form of AI, with about 65% of firms using generative AI in 2024. Deloitte predicts 25% of AI-using companies will pilot autonomous “agentic AI” systems in 2025, rising to 50% by 2027. The global AI agent market is projected to grow from $5.1 billion in 2024 to $47.1 billion by 2030, a 45% CAGR. The EU AI Act, in force since 2024, bans AI with “unacceptable risk” from February 2025 and will add transparency and
27 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Broadcom Stock Gets a Google AI Spend Lift as Jefferies Sees 60% Upside

Broadcom Stock Gets a Google AI Spend Lift as Jefferies Sees 60% Upside

7 February 2026
Google raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $175 billion–$185 billion, with most spending expected on data-center chips. Broadcom shares rose about 2% after the announcement, while Nvidia and AMD slipped. Jefferies reiterated a buy rating on Broadcom, maintaining a $500 price target, implying a 62% upside from Wednesday’s close.
No $2,000 IRS stimulus check is coming in February 2026 — but Trump’s tariff-check talk keeps the rumors alive

No $2,000 IRS stimulus check is coming in February 2026 — but Trump’s tariff-check talk keeps the rumors alive

7 February 2026
The IRS has not announced new federal stimulus payments for February 2026, and Congress has not approved fresh checks. Trump told NBC he is considering $2,000 tariff rebate checks but has not committed, saying any payout would likely come later in 2026. The IRS warns taxpayers to ignore texts and emails about “stimulus payments” and verify notices through official channels.
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