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State of Space and Satellite Technologies in 2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

State of Space and Satellite Technologies in 2025 (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Artemis I launched on November 16, 2022, marking NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) first flight and sending an uncrewed Orion around the Moon. The global space economy reached about $570 billion in 2023, with roughly 80% of that value produced by commercial activities. As of 2025, there are over 11,000 active satellites serving Earth, out of about 45,000 tracked objects…
26 June 2025
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From Orbit to Runway and Back: Lux Aeterna’s Delphi Platform and the Rise of Fully Reusable Satellites

From Orbit to Runway and Back: Lux Aeterna’s Delphi Platform and the Rise of Fully Reusable Satellites

Delphi is Lux Aeterna’s flagship fully reusable satellite bus designed to launch, operate in orbit, return to Earth, be refurbished, and relaunched. The Delphi demonstrator weighs about 200 kg and will carry a customer payload to low Earth orbit before re-entering and landing for recovery. Lux Aeterna has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding, led by Space Capital, to develop…
26 June 2025
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Space Race 2.0: A Shoebox‑Sized Quantum Satellite Blasts Off—Can It Make Hackers Obsolete?

Space Race 2.0: A Shoebox‑Sized Quantum Satellite Blasts Off—Can It Make Hackers Obsolete?

QUICK³ is a 3U CubeSat weighing 4 kg, led by Germany’s Technical University of Munich, and it launched on 23 June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Transporter‑14 from Vandenberg SFB. It carries the first true single-photon source flown, a laser-pumped hexagonal boron nitride chip on a 10 × 10 × 15 cm photonic chip. True single photons are expected to raise secret-key…
24 June 2025
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“Unhackable from Orbit!” – How a 4 kg CubeSat Just Kicked‑Off the Race for a Global Quantum‑Secure Internet

“Unhackable from Orbit!” – How a 4 kg CubeSat Just Kicked‑Off the Race for a Global Quantum‑Secure Internet

On 23 June 2025 at 07:18 UTC, the Falcon 9 lifted the QUICK³ nano-satellite into a 550 km sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base during SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare, with payload separation confirmed nine minutes after launch. The QUICK³ spacecraft weighs 4 kg and is a 3-U CubeSat (10 × 10 × 30 cm) with a primary experiment window of…
24 June 2025
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100 Semiconductor Giants Powering the Modern World

100 Semiconductor Giants Powering the Modern World

TSMC is the world’s largest contract chip fab, handling about 61% of global foundry revenues. NVIDIA is the largest fabless chip company in 2024, with data-center GPUs and AI accelerators generating $124.3 billion in revenue. Samsung Electronics is the world’s largest memory chip maker and, in 2024, regained the #1 position in overall semiconductor revenue at US$66.5 billion, with its…
22 June 2025
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Top 100 Global Biotechnology Companies Revolutionizing Science and Health

Top 100 Global Biotechnology Companies Revolutionizing Science and Health

Pfizer Inc., in collaboration with BioNTech, co-developed the first FDA-approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty. Roche Holding AG is the world’s largest biotech company and a leader in oncology treatments (Herceptin) and diagnostics. Moderna, Inc. pioneered mRNA vaccine technology and its COVID-19 vaccine was among the first mRNA medicines approved, while expanding mRNA therapeutics for cancer and rare diseases. Illumina, Inc.…
22 June 2025
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100 AI Titans Shaping the Future: The Global AI Power List 2025

100 AI Titans Shaping the Future: The Global AI Power List 2025

Alphabet (Google) – United States, founded 1998; parent of Google and Google DeepMind, with TensorFlow and the Gemini generative AI ecosystem underpinning its AI strategy. Microsoft – United States, founded 1975; global leader in enterprise AI with Azure AI services and a multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI to bring GPT-based tools to customers. OpenAI – United States, founded 2015; creators of…
22 June 2025
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100 Game-Changing Space & Satellite Companies Shaping Our Future in Orbit

100 Game-Changing Space & Satellite Companies Shaping Our Future in Orbit

The global space economy was valued at around $630 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2035. SpaceX revolutionized orbital launch with reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets and operates the Starlink broadband satellite constellation. OneWeb has deployed a Low Earth Orbit broadband constellation of about 648 small satellites for global connectivity. Intuitive Machines is…
22 June 2025
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100 Quantum Computing Companies Shaping the Global Quantum Revolution (2025)

100 Quantum Computing Companies Shaping the Global Quantum Revolution (2025)

Google Quantum AI achieved quantum supremacy in 2019 with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor performing a random circuit sampling task in 200 seconds. IBM Quantum progressed from the 127-qubit Eagle milestone in 2021 to 433-qubit Osprey in 2022, with a plan for a 1,121-qubit Condor and a long-term goal of about one million physical qubits by the decade’s end. D-Wave Systems,…
21 June 2025
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100 Space Startups Shaping the New Space Economy Worldwide

100 Space Startups Shaping the New Space Economy Worldwide

SpaceX (USA, founded 2002 by Elon Musk) achieved the first private orbital rocket launch in 2008, performed the first booster landing in 2015, and launched the Starlink mega-constellation. Blue Origin (USA, founded 2000 by Jeff Bezos) completed the first vertical landing of a New Shepard booster in 2015, flew the first crewed suborbital flight in July 2021, and conducted the…
21 June 2025
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Eyes in the Sky: How Earth Observation Is Revolutionizing Disaster Management

Eyes in the Sky: How Earth Observation Is Revolutionizing Disaster Management

Sentinel-1 radar imaged the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique in 2019 and revealed approximately 2,165 km² of flooding around the coastal city of Beira. Idai’s satellite flood maps pinpointed about 400,000 people stranded and helped allocate rescue resources. NOAA’s GOES weather satellites monitored Hurricane Dorian in 2019 as it approached the Bahamas, providing real-time imagery for track and intensity…
21 June 2025
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Satellite Radio Revolution: 14 Things You Need to Know About Its History, Technology, and Future

Satellite Radio Revolution: 14 Things You Need to Know About Its History, Technology, and Future

WorldSpace, founded in 1990, launched the first satellite radio broadcasts in October 1999 over Africa and the Middle East, with India accounting for 90% of its subscribers before filing for bankruptcy in 2008 and ceasing broadcasts in 2009. XM Satellite Radio launched its first satellite in March 2001 and began broadcasting to U.S. customers on September 25, 2001. Sirius Satellite…
20 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • Brand Concepts Limited Shows Low ROE and High Debt, Raising Quality Concerns
    January 21, 2026, 11:06 PM EST. Brand Concepts Limited (NSE:BCONCEPTS) reported a Return on Equity (ROE) of just 0.7% for the trailing twelve months to September 2025, significantly below the 12% average in the Specialty Retail sector. ROE measures how effectively a company uses shareholders' capital to generate profit. Despite low profitability, Brand Concepts carries a high debt-to-equity ratio of 1.91, indicating considerable leverage. High debt combined with low ROE raises concerns about financial risk and limits growth flexibility. Investors typically seek companies with higher ROE and manageable debt to ensure strong returns and stability. This balance is crucial for Brand Concepts, which currently struggles to demonstrate efficient capital use amid significant debt.
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