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…
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A new Vantablack 310 paint for satellites could dramatically cut light pollution by reducing reflected sunlight to just 2%. This innovation aims to protect astronomical research, like that at the Vera Rubin Observatory, from satellite streaks that degrade telescope images as satellite megaconstellations proliferate.
Plan-S Expands Connecta Constellation to 17 Satellites, Boosting Gigabit Industrial IoT and Cutting LatencyOverview: 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 …
Xona’s Pulsar Constellation Secures $92M to Revolutionize GPS with Centimeter-Accurate, Unhackable NavigationOverview: 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 Sp…
Texting From Space: The T-Mobile–Starlink ‘T-Satellite’ Launch Heralds the Direct-to-Device EraA 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’…
This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation / Updated: 2025-06-28 08:00This 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 R…
Robotics and Automation Trends 2025: Industry Breakthroughs and Market Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)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 …
