Science News 25 June 2025

Space News Roundup: Strategic Satellites, Interstellar Visitors, Quantum Networks, and More / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 12:00 CET

Boeing won a $2.8 billion U.S. Space Force contract to develop two Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) satellites, with options for two more, for NC3 in geostationary orbit, with first delivery targeted for 2031. MethaneSAT, a $134 million satellite funded

4 July 2025

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

Europe launched its first geostationary atmospheric sounding satellite, MTG-S1, as part of the Meteosat Third Generation program, equipped with a hyperspectral infrared sounder and Copernicus Sentinel-4 for air-quality monitoring, with a 9–12 month commissioning phase. Russia’s Kosmos-2558 approached the U.S.

3 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

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

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

1 July 2025

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Space News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and New Frontiers (June 30, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 00:00 CET

NASA’s SWOT satellite, launched in 2022, has revealed over 100,000 previously unknown seafloor features, more than doubling the number of known seamounts from 44,000 to over 100,000. ESA’s Biomass satellite, equipped with a pioneering P-band radar, enables direct measurement of

1 July 2025

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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

Space News Roundup – June 29, 2025

Japan’s H-2A rocket completed its 50th and final mission on June 28 (US time), launching the GOSAT-GW (“Ibuki”) greenhouse gases and water-cycle satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit with an official 98% reliability rate for the H-2A family. Blue Origin’s New

29 June 2025

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Latest Satellite News / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:39 CET

Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree

29 June 2025

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Space News Digest: June 2025 / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 07:59 CET

Space Coast launches set records with 93 launches in 2024 and up to 156 projected for 2025, driven by SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin. SpaceX’s Starlink megaconstellation has surpassed 7,900 satellites in orbit. Two Falcon 9 missions deployed 53 Starlink

29 June 2025

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June 2025 Science Breakthroughs and Projects: Medicine, Space, Climate, AI & More

In a Nature study, cancer cells were shown to siphon mitochondria from nearby nerve cells via microscopic tubes, a mechanism called mitochondrial hijacking that promotes metastasis. A separate Science News report described tumor DNA detectable in blood years before diagnosis,

28 June 2025

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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

28 June 2025

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Historic Liftoff! Poland’s “Star Scientist” Launches on SpaceX Dragon—All the Inside Details on the Ax-4 Mission, Crew and Experiments

On June 25 at 08:31 CEST, SpaceX Crew Dragon “Grace” launched from Pad 39A with four astronauts on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). Peggy Whitson (USA) commands Ax-4 and is on her fifth spaceflight, with a U.S. orbital record of 675

25 June 2025

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