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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

NASA deployed the WB-57 and UAVSAR-equipped Gulfstream III to support Texas flood recovery, delivering high-resolution real-time data despite persistent cloud cover, with over 110 fatalities and more than 170 missing. The European Launcher Challenge finalists are Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, MaiaSpace, PLD Space, and Orbex, each eligible for contracts up to €169 million. Airbus Defence and Space España will build two PAZ-2 radar satellites for Hisdesat, delivering sub-25 cm SAR imagery with AI analytics, and first in-service expected by 2031, with 65% of work performed by Spanish firms. India approved Starlink to operate under IN-SPACe for five years, allowing

10 July 2025

Web3 and DApp Platforms: June–July 2025 News Report

Executive Summary Platform Updates Ethereum Following the May 2025 Pectra upgrade, Ethereum’s PoS chain showed robust health. Staking surged to new heights: over 35 million ETH (28.3% of supply) was locked as of mid-June cointelegraph.com, driven in part by renewed confidence after the upgrade. Analysts noted ~500K ETH was staked in the first half of June alone cointelegraph.com. Liquid staking protocols lead – Lido holds ~25% of staked ETH, Binance ~7.5%, Coinbase ~7.4% cointelegraph.com. The network’s roadmap continues with Layer-2 scaling and new improvements, though no major on-chain governance events occurred in June–July. Markets remained bullish: CoinDesk reports DOT’s (Polkadot)

9 July 2025

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Did a Space Rock Just Slam Into Saturn? Inside the Global Race to Confirm the 5 July 2025 Flash

On 5 July 2025 at 09:07 UT, amateur Mario Rana from Hampton, Virginia recorded a two-frame white flare on Saturn’s western limb lasting under 1 second, with PVOL releasing a frame showing a stellate spot just inside the edge. PVOL issued an international all-points bulletin within hours, asking observers to upload raw video stacks for independent processing; as of this report, no second detection had surfaced. The verification drive includes data mining and crowd-sourcing, with PVOL providing a template FITS header to standardize submissions. Amateur networks such as Cloudy Nights and regional Facebook groups are screening terabytes of July 5

9 July 2025

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Tech News Deep Dive: July 7, 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 7th, 00:00 CET

The Nintendo Switch 2 launched in June 2025 with enhanced hardware and improved performance, though launch titles like Mario Kart World disappointed due to limited multiplayer and innovation. Arkane Studios co-founder Raphael Colantonio called Xbox Game Pass unsustainable and damaging amid massive Microsoft layoffs that included the closure of The Initiative and cancellation of Perfect Dark reboot and Forza Motorsport. Stardew Valley is the highest-rated game on Steam at 98.4% from nearly 900,000 reviews and has sold over 41 million copies. The James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of exoplanet 14 Herculis c, about 60 light-years away, using

7 July 2025

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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 23:59 CET

On July 5, 2025, the unpiloted Progress 92 spacecraft docked with the ISS Poisk module, delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to Expedition 73 and remaining docked for six months before disposal. NASA’s New Horizons, now 9.1 billion kilometers from Earth, demonstrated the first interstellar navigation test using stellar parallax, achieving about 40 million kilometers of position uncertainty. Astronomers detected interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), the third such object observed, currently between the asteroid belt and Jupiter at about 130,000 mph with live online observations. NWA 16788, the largest Martian meteorite at 24.5 kilograms and representing 6.5%

5 July 2025

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This Week in Space: Interstellar Visitors, Satellite Breakthroughs, and the Future of Space Policy / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 11:59 CET

NASA’s ATLAS telescope identified the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, currently about 420 million miles from Earth, with closest approach to the Sun on October 30, 2025, and it will pass safely between Mars and Earth as the third confirmed interstellar visitor after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. July marks Aphelion Day, when Earth is about 94.5 million miles from the Sun, but axial tilt, not distance, drives seasonal heat, with northern summers lengthened as Earth moves slower in its orbit at aphelion. Earth’s rotation is speeding up, shortening days by milliseconds, with scientists warning that a leap second may be subtracted by 2029,

5 July 2025

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Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025’s Biggest Stories in Innovation, Gaming, and the Cosmos / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 00:00 CET

Microsoft laid off about 9,100 employees in 2025, primarily in the Xbox division, with Turn 10, Rare, The Initiative, and ZeniMax Europe hit hardest and projects like Perfect Dark, Everwild, and Blackbird canceled. The Stop Killing Games campaign surpassed 1,000,000 signatures, prompting the European Commission to review remote game shutdowns and digital preservation, with supporters including Elon Musk and PewDiePie; examples cited include Ubisoft’s The Crew and Anthem. EA announced Anthem servers will shut down on January 12, 2026, with premium currency sales already ceased and the game removed from EA Play in August 2024, and no offline mode. 3I/ATLAS,

5 July 2025

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Space News Digest: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 00:00 CET

Starlink has over 4.6 million users and a constellation of nearly 7,900 satellites in orbit as of mid-2025. The EU Space Act would unify space regulation with debris mitigation, cybersecurity, and environmental standards, with existing Starlink satellites exempt through 2030 but future deployments subject to the Act. France’s SNCF plans to deploy satellite internet on trains by combining terrestrial 4G/5G with LEO connectivity, with Starlink and Eutelsat as leading providers. Boeing won a 2.8 billion US Space Force contract to develop two ESS satellites, with options for two more, targeted for deployment between 2031 and 2033. MTG-S1, the Meteosat Third

5 July 2025

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Tech News Today: Foldable Phones, AI Video, Interstellar Visitors, and the End of Exclusivity / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:01 CET

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Fold7 for the July 9, 2025 Galaxy Unpacked event, featuring an 8.2-inch main display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, Android 16 with One UI 8, a 4,400mAh battery with 40-hour life, IP48 water resistance, a drop rating A, average repairability C, Blue Shadow color, and a thinner, lighter design. Samsung is preparing the Galaxy G Fold, the world’s first triple-folding phone (Multifold 7), with a nearly 10-inch display, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, with mass production planned for September 2025 and a Q4 holiday release. Google’s Veo 3 AI

4 July 2025

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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 12:01 CET

MTG-S1, launched July 1, 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying Sentinel-4, will provide continuous 3D atmospheric profiles from geostationary orbit and hourly high‑resolution air‑quality data. MethaneSAT, funded by Jeff Bezos and the Environmental Defense Fund and launched in March 2024, stopped responding in June 2025 and is considered irrecoverable, despite revealing methane leaks up to ten times higher than official estimates in some regions. Starlink 10-25 mission from Cape Canaveral deployed 27 satellites, marking SpaceX’s 500th Falcon 9 mission and booster B1067’s 29th flight. ESA’s Biomass satellite, launched in April 2025, uses a P-band radar to penetrate forests and

2 July 2025

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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 00:00 CET

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images from Cerro Pachón, Chile, featuring galaxies and the Trifid Nebula, and will generate 10 million alerts per night with the world’s largest digital camera. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged a Saturn-mass exoplanet orbiting the star TWA 7. MTG-S1, a 1.8-ton satellite carrying the Sentinel-4 instrument, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and will provide 3D atmospheric maps every 30 minutes along with hourly air-quality data. The MethaneSAT satellite, funded by EDF and Bezos Earth Fund and launched in March 2024, has lost power and is likely not recoverable, marking

2 July 2025

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Space News Digest: July 1, 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 12:02 CET

The Vera Rubin Observatory began its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) with first light and a 3.2-gigapixel camera, aiming to image the southern sky every few days and catalog over 40 billion objects. Perseverance completed its 30th Martian rock analysis on a sample named Kenmore, using the gaseous Dust Removal Tool to study its interior mineralogy. Perseverance detected clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero Crater’s rim, suggesting ancient water activity about 4 billion years ago. Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama of Gale Crater, providing detailed context for ongoing geological investigations. FireSat plans deployment of over 50 satellites by 2029; FIRENET

1 July 2025

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