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Space Exploration News 21 September 2025 - 27 September 2025

Global Space News Roundup (Sept 26–27, 2025)

Global Space News Roundup (Sept 26–27, 2025)

Summary: Record Launch Cadence for Starlink and Kuiper Constellations SpaceX’s launch blitz: SpaceX achieved an unprecedented launch cadence, flying three Falcon 9 missions in under 41 hours through Sept. 25–26 spaceflightnow.com. These included two Starlink batches (28 satellites from Florida and 24 from California) and NASA’s solar observatory mission (IMAP) to deep space. The Sept. 26 Vandenberg launch marked SpaceX’s 123rd Falcon 9 flight of 2025 and the 15th just in September, putting the company on pace to smash its previous annual launch record space.com. With these missions, SpaceX surpassed 8,400 Starlink satellites in orbit, with about 8,500 active Starlink craft now
27 September 2025
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AI Metaverse Leaps, Cyber Attacks, and Space Triumphs – Global Tech News Roundup (Sept 26–27, 2025)

AI Metaverse Leaps, Cyber Attacks, and Space Triumphs – Global Tech News Roundup (Sept 26–27, 2025)

AI and Big Tech Developments Meta bets on the Metaverse + AI: Meta Platforms grabbed headlines with a suite of announcements blending augmented reality and generative AI. At the Meta Connect 2025 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced “Horizon AI,” a new service for creating personalized virtual worlds on the fly theverge.com. Using Meta’s latest large language model (Llama 4) and user data, Horizon AI can “stitch” together custom 3D environments via an intelligent assistant theverge.com. In a demo, Zuckerberg showed how speaking a few prompts (or even scanning your room) could generate an immersive scene – for example, recreating a
27 September 2025
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Launch Doubleheader and Lunar Revelations – Space News Roundup (Sept 25-26, 2025)

Launch Doubleheader and Lunar Revelations – Space News Roundup (Sept 25-26, 2025)

Marathon Launch Day: Starlink & Kuiper Soar September 25, 2025 saw an extraordinary launch doubleheader. In the pre-dawn hours, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 4:39 a.m. EDT carrying 28 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit spaceflightnow.com. Just a few hours later at 8:09 a.m. EDT, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V roared skyward from a neighboring pad with 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellites onboard spaceflightnow.com. The rare one-two punch meant two orbital launches from one spaceport within 3.5 hours, treating spectators on Florida’s Space Coast to dual rocket trails in the sky. SpaceX’s early-morning Starlink
26 September 2025
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NASA’s “Astronaut Avatars” – Tiny Organ Chips Poised to Protect Artemis II Crew’s Health

Artemis II: NASA’s Daring 2026 Moon Mission – First Crewed Lunar Orbit in 50 Years

Mission Overview: Artemis II and Its Significance Artemis II is poised to be a historic mission, rekindling human exploration beyond Earth orbit after half a century. It is the second mission in NASA’s Artemis program and the first that will carry astronauts. In essence, Artemis II is a lunar flyby: the crew will venture around the Moon and return to Earth without landing spacepolicyonline.com. The mission builds directly on the uncrewed Artemis I flight (Nov–Dec 2022), which tested the enormous SLS rocket and Orion capsule around the Moon and back. Artemis I was deemed a success, but engineers learned vital lessons – notably about Orion’s heat shield, which ablated more than expected spacepolicyonline.com. Armed
25 September 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Secret Satellite Launches, Mega‑Mergers & Cosmic Breakthroughs (July 14–15, 2025 Roundup)

SpaceX Shatters Launch Records with 28 Starlink Satellites, Leaving Rivals in the Dust

SpaceX’s Latest Starlink Launch: Routine but Remarkable SpaceX’s latest launch of 28 Starlink satellites might have seemed routine by now – one of several launches the company performs each month – but it underscored just how far SpaceX has pushed the boundaries of rapid, reusable spaceflight. The mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral before dawn on September 25, 2025, carrying a batch of 28 of SpaceX’s “Starlink V2 Mini” satellites destined for low Earth orbit space.com. Within about 64 minutes, all 28 satellites were successfully deployed to join the ever-growing Starlink constellation, adding another layer
25 September 2025
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Space Showdown: 48 Hours of Epic Launches, Cosmic Breakthroughs, and a New Moonship Name

Space Showdown: 48 Hours of Epic Launches, Cosmic Breakthroughs, and a New Moonship Name

Major Launches Light Up Late September Solar sentinel liftoff: The week’s biggest blast-off came early on Sept. 24, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared off Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center carrying a trio of spacecraft devoted to space weather research nasa.gov. In a single launch at 7:30 a.m. EDT, NASA and NOAA deployed the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow-On L1 (SWFO-L1) satellite toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange point nasa.gov nasaspaceflight.com. This “fleet” will probe how the Sun’s charged particles and solar wind affect Earth and the broader solar system. “This
25 September 2025
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Space Race in 48 Hours: Starship Roars, Moon Mission Nears & Space Tourism Soars

Space Race in 48 Hours: Starship Roars, Moon Mission Nears & Space Tourism Soars

Key Facts (Sept. 23–24, 2025) Satellite Launches & Space Missions Solar Probes Take Flight: On Sept. 24, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 thundered off pad 39A in Florida carrying three solar science spacecraft: NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a small Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s SWFO-L1 space-weather monitor science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. Liftoff was targeted for 7:30 a.m. EDT, with the booster aiming to hurl the payloads toward the Sun-Earth L1 point, about a million miles out nasa.gov nasa.gov. This mission inaugurates a new era in heliophysics – IMAP will map the boundaries of the heliosphere (the “bubble” of solar wind around our solar system) to
24 September 2025
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Vanishing Insects, Rusty Rivers & NASA’s Next Moonshot – Science News Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Vanishing Insects, Rusty Rivers & NASA’s Next Moonshot – Science News Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Key Facts Climate & Environment Insects Vanishing Even in Pristine Habitats Mounting evidence indicates the insect biodiversity crisis has reached even untouched ecosystems. A long-term study in the Colorado Rockies found flying insect abundance has collapsed by ~72% over 20 years in a subalpine meadow with minimal human impact sciencedaily.com. Higher summer temperatures were tightly correlated with the decline, implicating climate change rather than local land use. “Insects have a unique…vulnerability to environmental change,” warns biologist Keith Sockman, who led the study sciencedaily.com. He notes that mountain ecosystems host many endemic species which “may be in jeopardy if the declines shown
23 September 2025
NASA’s New Astronaut Class of 2025 Makes History with “All-American” Recruits Poised for Moon and Mars

NASA’s New Astronaut Class of 2025 Makes History with “All-American” Recruits Poised for Moon and Mars

Overview of the 2025 Astronaut Class Announcement NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class – the ten selectees pose at Johnson Space Center in Houston after their introduction on September 22, 2025. NASA unveiled this “All-American” 2025 astronaut class during a live ceremony, marking the agency’s first new astronaut cohort since 2021. The announcement followed a highly competitive process: more than 8,000 Americans applied, hoping to earn a coveted spot in NASA’s astronaut corps. Ultimately, 10 candidates (6 women and 4 men) were chosen, all U.S. citizens hailing from “every corner of this nation,” as NASA’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy noted in
23 September 2025
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Space Spectacle: NASA Unveils New Astronauts, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Cosmic Breakthroughs (21–22 Sep 2025)

Space Spectacle: NASA Unveils New Astronauts, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Cosmic Breakthroughs (21–22 Sep 2025)

Key Facts Major Launches and Mission Updates NASA’s Space Weather Trio Set for Launch: At Kennedy Space Center, NASA and NOAA are on the cusp of launching three spacecraft that promise new insight into solar storms and the Solar System’s boundary. On Sept. 21, officials declared the IMAP mission (“Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe”) and its two co-manifested satellites “go” for launch science.nasa.gov. IMAP will travel ~1.5 million km sunward to the Sun–Earth L1 point to map the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble shielding our Solar System – and study how solar wind particles and cosmic rays interact at that
22 September 2025
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Weekend Science Bonanza: Breakthroughs From Space to Superbugs

Weekend Science Bonanza: Breakthroughs From Space to Superbugs

Space & Astronomy Humanity’s search for cosmic neighbors hit a celebratory peak. NASA announced it has confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars – just three decades after finding the very first such world entechonline.com. This tally reflects an explosion of discoveries by telescopes like Kepler and TESS. “Each of the different types of planets we discover gives us information about… how common planets like Earth might be,” explained Dr. Dawn Gelino, who leads NASA’s exoplanet program, noting that every discovery helps us inch closer to answering the ultimate question of whether we’re alone sciencealert.com. The 6,000-planet milestone
21 September 2025
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Space Missions, Smartphone Frenzy & Cyber Chaos: Tech’s Wild Weekend (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Space Missions, Smartphone Frenzy & Cyber Chaos: Tech’s Wild Weekend (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Key Facts Apple iPhone 17 Demand Surges in Russia Russian tech retailers rolled out Apple’s iPhone 17 in Moscow on Saturday (ahead of the official sales launch), drawing surprisingly strong consumer demand. Major reseller Restore: reported a 66% jump in pre-orders compared to the last iPhone release reuters.com reuters.com. “This year we have 66% more preorders than last year,” confirmed Lyudmila Semushina, PR director for the retail group, who noted a “huge fan base that will never exchange iPhone for anything else” despite high prices reuters.com. Shoppers in Moscow cited the upgraded cameras and features as compelling reasons to upgrade.
21 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

Walmart stock jumps to $131 as traders brace for CPI and Feb. 19 earnings

Walmart stock jumps to $131 as traders brace for CPI and Feb. 19 earnings

7 February 2026
Walmart shares rose 3.3% Friday to $131.18, up 10% since Jan. 30, as the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. The retailer’s market value crossed $1 trillion this week. Investors await January inflation data on Feb. 13 and Walmart’s quarterly results on Feb. 19 for signs of continued momentum.
Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

Caterpillar stock price jumps 7% to $726 as Dow cracks 50,000 — what matters next week

7 February 2026
Caterpillar shares surged 7.1% to $726.20 Friday, driving the Dow above 50,000 for the first time. The move erased recent losses and followed insider selling by Group President Bob De Lange earlier in the week. Deere and CNH Industrial also gained as investors rotated into industrial stocks. Markets await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data.
Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

Amazon stock slides as $200B AI spending plan meets cautious profit outlook

7 February 2026
Amazon shares fell 9% Friday after the company announced plans for $200 billion in 2026 capital spending, mainly for AWS and AI, and issued a first-quarter profit outlook below estimates. The stock drop could erase $200 billion in market value. Fourth-quarter net sales rose 14% to $213.4 billion, while free cash flow declined due to higher spending on AI infrastructure.
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