Introduction: A new space race is underway – not to put the next person on the Moon, but to eliminate cellphone “dead zones” by connecting ordinary phones directly to satellites. Tech giants and start-ups alike are vying to beam connectivity from orbit to your handset under open skies. Apple’s iPhone Emergency SOS kicked off this…
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Crewed Missions & Space Station Updates Global Launch Activities & Satellites Space Policy, Cooperation & Security Space Science & Exploration Highlights Sources:
SpaceX packed a whirlwind of headline-grabbing developments into the first two days of August 2025. From a triumphant crewed launch dodging storm clouds, to a fiery Starship engine test in Texas, to new milestones (and concerns) for the ever-growing Starlink satellite network – here’s your comprehensive roundup of everything SpaceX in the past 48 hours.…
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Discovery of 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor From Beyond Astronomers have confirmed a rare cosmic interloper entering our solar system – a comet from another star. The object, officially designated 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted on July 1, 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile science.nasa.gov esa.int. (ATLAS stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert…
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Crewed Missions & ISS Updates Crew-11 Launch to ISS: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 1, carrying four astronauts – Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke (NASA), Kimiya Yui (JAXA), and Oleg Platonov (Roscosmos) – to the International Space Station apnews.com. The Falcon 9 rocket launched at 11:43 a.m.…
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Hardware and Chips 🚀 Intel’s Massive Restructuring: Chip giant Intel confirmed sweeping layoffs of around 24,000 employees – roughly one-quarter of its workforce – as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan slashes projects and retreats from costly expansions theverge.com theverge.com. Intel is even halting planned “mega-fab” chip factories in Germany and Poland amid the belt-tightening. “I do…
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Government Space Agencies: Major Launches and Missions India and NASA Launch Climate-Tracking Satellite: In a landmark collaboration, India’s space agency ISRO and NASA launched the $1.5 billion NISAR Earth-observation satellite on July 30. A Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 5:40 p.m. IST, carrying the first joint NASA-ISRO radar imaging…
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Asteroid “Hit List”: The Space Rocks That Could (Theoretically) Collide with Earth Earth has been in the cosmic crosshairs before – from the dinosaur-killing 6-mile asteroid 66 million years ago to the 1908 Tunguska impact in Siberia. Today, astronomers vigilantly track near-Earth objects (NEOs) to make sure we know of any asteroid or comet with even…
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It was a whirlwind weekend in space. Over just 48 hours, rockets roared off launchpads across the globe and bold new missions were unveiled. SpaceX pulled off back-to-back Falcon 9 launches to expand its Starlink internet constellation, while astronauts from three nations arrived in Florida to prepare for a flight to the International Space Station.…
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