Overview: A New Milestone for Plan-S and Satellite IoT Plan-S, a Turkish satellite technology firm founded in 2021, has reached a major milestone in industrial IoT connectivity. The company launched four new satellites in June 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 (Transporter-14) mission, expanding its Connecta IoT Network to a total of 17 satellites in…
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Overview: Xona Space Systems and the Pulsar Constellation Project Xona Space Systems is a Silicon Valley startup aiming to build a next-generation satellite navigation network as an alternative and complement to GPS. Founded in 2019 by a team of Stanford-educated engineers (including alumni of SpaceX and Stanford’s GPS Lab), Xona’s mission is to “rebuild satellite…
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A Partnership to Eliminate Dead Zones In August 2022, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced an ambitious partnership called “Coverage Above and Beyond,” aiming to end mobile dead zones by connecting standard smartphones to SpaceX’s Starlink satellitest-mobile.comt-mobile.com. Under this vision, Starlink’s low-Earth-orbit satellites would broadcast using T-Mobile’s cellular spectrum, essentially acting as space-based cell towers. The goal:…
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This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Space Launches and Satellite Milestones China’s Zhongxing-9C: Full Localization of Broadcast Satellites SpaceX Starlink Launches and Global Connectivity Rocket Lab and HawkEye 360: Expanding RF Intelligence EarthDaily and Next-Gen Earth Observation ESA and Biomass: Unveiling…
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Introduction Robotics and automation are entering the latter half of 2025 with unprecedented momentum. Global industrial robot adoption hit record levels – the value of new installations reached $16.5 billion in 2024 ifr.org – and over 4.28 million robots are now operating in factories worldwide ifr.org. This surge is powered by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) integration, a post-pandemic…
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Latest News and Developments (Mid-2025) QuantumScape’s solid-state battery program has hit major milestones in 2025. In late June 2025, the company announced the successful integration of its new “Cobra” ceramic separator manufacturing process into baseline production quantumscape.com. Cobra is a high-throughput, continuous-flow process for making QuantumScape’s patented ceramic electrolyte separators, yielding a ~25× increase in heat-treatment speed and a dramatically…
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Today in Space / June 28, 2025 0:00 Senior Aerospace Editor’s Exhaustive Roundup Table of Contents 1. Headline News SpaceX’s Starship: Explosions, Environmental Tensions, and Starlink Expansion NASA’s Artemis SLS: Booster Anomalies and Budget Uncertainty International Space Station: Axiom-4, India’s Return, and Multinational Crews 2. Science Highlights Meteor Fireballs and Asteroid Risks Mars: Hidden Volcanoes,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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