This Week in Space: Reusable Rockets, Interstellar Visitors, and the Future of Earth Observation The past week has seen a torrent of developments across the space sector, from Europe’s push toward reusable launchers and the detection of a new interstellar object, to the sobering loss of a major climate-monitoring satellite. As the world’s eyes turn…
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 The first week of July 2025 has delivered a remarkable array of space news, spanning pioneering satellite launches, environmental discoveries, citizen science breakthroughs, and major industry moves. This comprehensive review explores the latest developments, their implications, and what lies ahead for the global space community. Europe’s Meteorological Leap: MTG-S1 Geostationary…
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This Week in Space: Interstellar Visitors, Satellite Breakthroughs, and the Future of Space Policy The past week has been a microcosm of the modern space age: interstellar comets, revolutionary weather satellites, geopolitical intrigue, and the relentless march of commercial innovation. From NASA’s latest celestial discoveries to the European Union’s push for unified space regulation, the…
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Space Science in July 2025: Breakthroughs, Setbacks, and the Expanding Frontier The first week of July 2025 has delivered a torrent of space news, ranging from awe-inspiring celestial discoveries to sobering technical failures and policy debates. This article synthesizes the latest developments in astronomy, satellite technology, planetary science, and the business and politics of space,…
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The newly confirmed comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) is the third identified interstellar object after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). Discovered on 1 July 2025 by the NASA‑funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, it is racing through the solar system on an extremely hyperbolic path at ∼68 km s⁻¹, will reach perihelion just inside Mars’s orbit on 29 October 2025, and poses no threat to Earth. Early…
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Space News Digest: July 1, 2025 Headlines and Highlights The global space sector continues to surge with scientific breakthroughs, new missions, and technological advances. This week’s news covers everything from the Vera Rubin Observatory’s first cosmic survey, the latest on Mars exploration, and the evolving landscape of satellite technology, to the growing intersection of space…
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Space News Digest: June 2025 An In-Depth Analysis of the Latest Breakthroughs, Launches, and Discoveries in the Global Space Sector Table of Contents 1. Space Coast Launches: Breaking Records and Shaping the Future 2. Satellite Mega-Constellations: Starlink, Kuiper, and the New Race for Orbit 3. Japan’s H-2A Rocket Retires: A New Era with H3 4.…
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Space News Digest: June 2025 A Comprehensive Review of the Week’s Most Significant Space Developments Table of Contents 1. Launches & Satellite Networks Rocket Lab’s Rapid Cadence and Secret Payloads Amazon’s Project Kuiper vs. SpaceX Starlink Japan’s Final H-2A Rocket and GOSAT-GW South Korea’s 425 Project and Greece’s DUTHSat-2 Europe’s Independent Satellite Network 2. Space…
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Exoplanet Research Breakthroughs Webb Directly Images a Saturn-Mass Exoplanet: For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet previously unknown – a young gas giant roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting the star TWA 7 science.nasa.gov reuters.com. This object, dubbed TWA 7 b, is about 50 AU from its star and…
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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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