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Space Exploration News 30 September 2025 - 5 October 2025

Lockheed Martin News Roundup (Oct 1–10, 2025): Defense Giant Navigates New Contracts, Space Ambitions, and Market Momentum

Lockheed Martin News Roundup (Oct 1–10, 2025): Defense Giant Navigates New Contracts, Space Ambitions, and Market Momentum

Key Facts (Oct 1–10, 2025) Corporate Announcements & Innovations Lockheed Martin kicked off October with key company news. On October 1, the firm announced a successful series of U.S. Army flight tests of its new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) news.lockheedmartin.com. In late September, soldiers at White Sands Missile Range fired PrSMs from both a HIMARS launcher and a modernized M270A2 rocket launcher, marking the first dual-launcher operational test news.lockheedmartin.com. “This milestone validates the soldier’s ability to fire PrSM from all platforms… and certifies mission readiness,” said Carolyn Orzechowski, Lockheed’s VP of Precision Fires, noting the company is “pushing the boundaries
5 October 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shrouded in CO₂ Fog – NASA’s SPHEREx Reveals a Cosmic Visitor’s Secrets

Is 3I/ATLAS an Interstellar Messenger? New Findings Debunk Alien Rumors but Reveal an Ancient, Carbon‑Rich Comet

A Rare Interstellar Visitor When astronomers with the Asteroid Terrestrial‑impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) noticed an object with an extraordinarily high orbital eccentricity racing through the outer solar system in June 2025, they immediately suspected an interstellar origin. Follow‑up observations confirmed that the body, now designated 3I/ATLAS, follows a hyperbolic path and moves faster than any known comet, approximately 210 000 km per hour esa.int. Unlike periodic comets, this object will never return once it leaves the Sun’s gravitational grasp, making it only the third confirmed interstellar visitor after ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019 science.nasa.gov. The comet’s trajectory takes it between
5 October 2025
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Blastoff and Breakthroughs: SpaceX Smashes Records, Mars Life Clue, and More (Oct 4–5, 2025)

Blastoff and Breakthroughs: SpaceX Smashes Records, Mars Life Clue, and More (Oct 4–5, 2025)

Key Facts Major Launches and Missions SpaceX’s relentless launch pace hit a new high this weekend. On Oct. 3, a Falcon 9 rocket roared off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit space.com. This mission marked SpaceX’s 125th Falcon 9 flight of the year, already a record-setting cadence, and the booster successfully landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship ~8 minutes later space.com. The reused booster (serial B1097) completed its second flight space.com. Starlink deployment was confirmed about an hour after liftoff, adding to SpaceX’s ever-growing internet constellation space.com. With over 8,500
5 October 2025
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Stratospheric Surprise: Giant NASA ‘Space Balloon’ Crash-Lands on Texas Farm

Stratospheric Surprise: Giant NASA ‘Space Balloon’ Crash-Lands on Texas Farm

Farm Family Stunned by Falling NASA Balloon It was a quiet West Texas morning when the Walter family’s routine was broken by an unusual sight in the sky. Ann Walter was getting her young son ready for the day on October 2 when her husband, Hayden, burst in urging her to come outside chron.com. Looking up, they saw a gigantic white balloon-like object attached to a parachute drifting silently overhead. “We couldn’t quite identify it,” Ann recalled of the moment they watched the mystery object float above their Hale County farm chron.com. They managed to snap a few photos and
4 October 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Record Rocket Launches, New Alliances & a Visitor From Beyond – Space News Roundup (Oct 3–4, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Record Rocket Launches, New Alliances & a Visitor From Beyond – Space News Roundup (Oct 3–4, 2025)

Key Facts Record Launches Fuel a Satellite Frenzy The first days of October saw rocket launch activity reach new heights. In California, SpaceX continued its torrid pace – a Falcon 9 blasted off from Vandenberg SFB on October 3 carrying 28 Starlink internet satellites to orbit space.com. This mission marked SpaceX’s 125th Falcon 9 launch of the year, an unprecedented cadence that underscores the company’s dominance in orbital access. In fact, over 70% of SpaceX’s 2025 launches have been for Starlink deployment, rapidly building the largest satellite constellation in history space.com. The latest batch brings Starlink’s active fleet to roughly
4 October 2025
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Rogue Planet Gobbles 6 Billion Tons of Gas per Second — Behaving Like a Star

Rogue Planet Gobbles 6 Billion Tons of Gas per Second — Behaving Like a Star

A Cosmic Feeding Frenzy Astronomers have long known that rogue planets (also called free‑floating planetary‑mass objects) drift through space without a host star sciencealert.com. Most are cold and quiet, but Cha 1107-7626 is anything but quiet. In late June 2025, it suddenly brightened dramatically. Follow-up observations revealed an EXor‑type accretion burst – a rapid feeding episode like those seen in infant stars sciencealert.com. By August, the planet’s accretion rate had skyrocketed: at its peak it was pulling in roughly 6 billion tons of cosmic gas and dust every second phys.org. This translates to about 10⁻⁷ Jupiter masses per year – an unheard‑of rate for any planet sciencealert.com. Víctor Almendros‑Abad, an
4 October 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System

Rare Cosmic Flyby: Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas to Zip Past Mars as Spacecraft Brace for Close-Up Study

Looking Ahead: What 3I/Atlas Can Teach Us This week’s close approach marks just the beginning of an intensive observation campaign. Once 3I/Atlas dives behind the Sun in late October, Earth-based telescopes will lose it, but Mars and Jupiter satellites (and later telescopes on Earth in December) will continue the story. During perihelion and its outbound journey past Jupiter (in early 2026) the comet should reveal its secrets – or at least its usual cometary face. As one commentator notes, watching 3I/Atlas in this active phase “will give some of the clearest insights yet into the mystery of interstellar comets” space.com.
4 October 2025
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Space Race Spectacular: SpaceX, Blue Origin & NASA Top Headlines in Early October 2025

Space Race Spectacular: SpaceX, Blue Origin & NASA Top Headlines in Early October 2025

Sources & Commentary: This roundup draws on official releases and news outlets. NASA and industry experts provided insights – for example, Space Force Lt. Col. Amber Johnson called ATLAS “a revolutionary leap forward” for space situational awareness airandspaceforces.com, and Gen. Phillip Garrant stressed the need to “leverage other locations” beyond traditional launch sites airandspaceforces.com. ISRO’s chair V. Narayanan noted NISAR’s broad benefits for the global science community reuters.com. Fact-checks and figures come from Spaceflight Now, Reuters, Space.com, NASA press releases and other vetted sources to ensure accuracy spaceflightnow.com nasa.gov airandspaceforces.com.
3 October 2025
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You Won’t Believe How Easily You Can Spot the ISS – Ultimate International Space Station Viewing Guide

ISS Legacy and the Commercial Space Race: Why 2020s Are Launching Humanity Into Deep Space

ISS: A Launch Pad for Deep Space Exploration When the International Space Station was first assembled in 1998, NASA envisioned it as more than a laboratory. It would be a bridge into the solar system—a place to master living and working in space, develop life‑support systems and test technologies before committing astronauts to long voyages. In 2025, with the ISS still orbiting 400 kilometres above Earth, that vision is clearer than ever. Mastering a New Environment Micro‑gravity is a harsh teacher. On the ISS, astronauts must adapt to drinking in weightlessness, sleeping in vertical sleeping bags and maintaining fitness when bones
2 October 2025
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Breaking Space News (Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2025): Record Launches, Bold Contracts, and Stunning Milestones

Breaking Space News (Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2025): Record Launches, Bold Contracts, and Stunning Milestones

Key Facts Global Space Agencies: Moon Rockets and Modern Operations NASA (USA) focused on its Artemis lunar program. On Sept. 30, NASA announced that the Orion Stage Adapter (which connects the SLS rocket’s upper stage to Orion) was installed for Artemis II nasa.gov. This brings the integrated SLS–Orion stack closer to its no-later-than April 2026 launch. NASA explains that “in the coming weeks” engineers will mate the Orion crew capsule to the rocket nasa.gov. This Artemis II mission will be the first crewed flight of SLS/Orion, carrying astronauts around the Moon. Meanwhile, NASA is also finalizing Europe’s Sentinel-6B satellite (co‑funded
1 October 2025
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SpaceX Starship: The Giant Rocket Poised to Change Space Travel Forever (2025 Update)

SpaceX’s Starship Returns: Launch Set for Oct. 13 – A Lunar Race and Rocket Showdown Explained

Sources: Official SpaceX announcements and live-test reports space.com friendsofnasa.org; Space.com and SpaceExplored news articles covering the Flight 10 success and Oct. 13 announcement space.com spaceexplored.com; NASA and Congressional briefings on Artemis timelines nasa.gov space.com; NASA Advisory Panel analysis spacepolicyonline.com gizmodo.com; and public flight logs and press summaries en.wikipedia.org nasaspaceflight.com. These sources provide the latest updates on Starship’s development, objectives, and its role in the upcoming Moon missions and broader space exploration landscape.
30 September 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shrouded in CO₂ Fog – NASA’s SPHEREx Reveals a Cosmic Visitor’s Secrets

Massive Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Sparks Debate – Harvard Astronomer: ‘Could Be Alien Tech’

A Visitor From Beyond the Solar System Astronomers around the world are buzzing over the appearance of comet 3I/ATLAS, an object that entered our Solar System from interstellar space. This cosmic interloper – formally designated 3I/ATLAS (with “3I” signifying the third interstellar object ever recorded) – was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile reuters.com esa.int. Its discovery was quickly confirmed by observatories worldwide when its highly eccentric trajectory signaled an origin beyond our Solar System esa.int. Every other comet, asteroid, planet, and moon we’ve observed shares a common birth in
30 September 2025
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