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Space Missions News 8 June 2025 - 24 August 2025

SpaceX: Comprehensive Overview of History, Technologies, Missions, and Future Plans

SpaceX’s Epic Weekend: Starship Launch Countdown, Dragon Boosts ISS, Starlink Smashes Records

Starship Flight 10, a 400-foot-tall Starship/Super Heavy stack, is scheduled to liftoff Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. EDT from SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its 10th flight test, with a Super Heavy booster equipped with 33 Raptor engines. After liftoff, the Super Heavy booster will detach and perform a controlled splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico instead of landing on catch arms, testing a new water-landing engine configuration. The Starship upper stage will ignite its own engines to reach space and attempt its first-ever payload deployment, releasing a batch of dummy Starlink satellites. SpaceX plans to reignite one
24 August 2025
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You Won’t Believe What Just Happened in Space – August 23–24 Space News Roundup

You Won’t Believe What Just Happened in Space – August 23–24 Space News Roundup

Rocket Launches and Mission Highlights Space Industry and Global Policy Developments Scientific Breakthroughs and Space Research Each of these stories from August 23–24, 2025 showcases the remarkable breadth of space news in just a 48-hour window – from record-setting launches and novel spacecraft capabilities, to industry shake-ups and policy shifts, to cosmic discoveries rewriting textbooks. It’s a vivid reminder that the space sector is firing on all cylinders: rockets are roaring, regulations are evolving, and researchers are unveiling the cosmos’ deepest secrets. In short, the final frontier had a very eventful weekend – and the sky is no longer the
24 August 2025
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75 Mice, a Secret Spaceplane & a New Moon: Major Space News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

75 Mice, a Secret Spaceplane & a New Moon: Major Space News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

On August 19, CAS Space launched the Lijian-1 (Kinetica-1) Y10 from Jiuquan, deploying seven satellites including ThumbSat-1 and ThumbSat-2 (~100 grams each) built in Mexico. The Lijian-1 is the eighth flight in the Kinetica-1 series and CAS Space says it can loft 50+ satellites per mission with launch costs below $10,000 per kilogram to orbit, including an X-band radar Earth-imaging satellite and a Tianyan-26 cubesat. Roscosmos launched the Bion-M No.2 biosatellite on August 20 aboard a Soyuz-2.1b from Baikonur, carrying 75 mice, over 1,000 fruit flies, microorganisms, plant seeds and cell cultures for a 30-day microgravity and radiation exposure. NASA’s
20 August 2025
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

SpaceX’s Epic 48 Hours: Astronauts Blast Off, Starship Roars & Starlink Soars (Aug 1–2, 2025)

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 with nine Merlin engines from Kennedy Space Center at 11:43 a.m. EDT on August 1, 2025, on the Crew Dragon Endeavour for NASA’s Crew-11 mission. The Crew-11 Dragon capsule separated from the Falcon 9’s second stage less than 10 minutes after liftoff. Endeavour docked with the ISS Harmony module around 3:00 a.m. EDT on August 2, 2025, after a roughly 16-hour transit. NASA indicated Crew-11 may stay on the ISS for eight months instead of the standard six months to better align with Russia’s
2 August 2025
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Space Race Frenzy: Starlink Soars, New Missions Ignite & Solar Storms Flicker (July 17-18, 2025)

Space Race Frenzy: Starlink Soars, New Missions Ignite & Solar Storms Flicker (July 17-18, 2025)

NASA announced TRACERS, a pair of satellites to study Earth’s magnetosphere, slated to launch in late July 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California, flying in tandem across the poles to observe magnetic reconnection, alongside three NASA tech demos including a “Polylingual” communications terminal and a smallsat radiation belt cleanup demonstrator. NASA announced SNIFS, the Solar Eruption Integral Field Spectrograph, to be carried by a sounding rocket from White Sands, New Mexico, with a July 18 launch window to study the Sun’s chromosphere and solar eruptions. NASA’s Crew-11 mission features four astronauts—Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg
20 July 2025
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June 2025 Space News: Breakthroughs, Missions, and the Expanding Frontier / Updated: 2025, June 28th, 16:00 CET

June 2025 Space News: Breakthroughs, Missions, and the Expanding Frontier / Updated: 2025, June 28th, 16:00 CET

Shubhanshu Shukla became India’s 634th person in space, traveling to the ISS on the Axiom-4 mission after a 28-hour journey and a 41-year hiatus. NASA and Roscosmos are conducting investigations as four astronauts arrive at the ISS amid a mysterious air leak detected in the Russian Zvezda module. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory achieved first light with a 3,200-megapixel camera, discovering over 2,000 asteroids in 10 hours and planning to image the entire sky every few nights for a decade. The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged its first exoplanet, TWA 7b, a Saturn-mass world about 111 light-years away. Japan’s
28 June 2025
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Major Astronomy News in June 2025: Webb’s Exoplanet Discovery, Rubin’s First Images, Space Missions & More

Major Astronomy News in June 2025: Webb’s Exoplanet Discovery, Rubin’s First Images, Space Missions & More

The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged a Saturn-mass exoplanet, TWA 7 b, about 0.3 Jupiter masses at 50 AU from its star, marking Webb’s first direct exoplanet discovery. The missing baryon problem was resolved using 69 fast radio bursts, showing about 76% of ordinary matter lies in hot intergalactic gas, ~15% in halos around galaxies, and ~9% in galaxies. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein), the largest Oort Cloud comet, showed CO outgassing jets at 16.6 AU with a nucleus about 140 km across, observed by ALMA. Solar Orbiter delivered the first views of the Sun’s south pole from an inclination
28 June 2025
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AstroForge Brokkr‑2 (Odin) Mission Overview and Objectives

AstroForge Brokkr‑2 (Odin) Mission Overview and Objectives

Odin (Brokkr-2) launched on Feb 26, 2025 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 as part of Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar mission. Its target was near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5, about 20–30 meters in size (up to ~100 meters diameter) and suspected to be M-type metal-rich, with a flyby planned roughly 300 days after launch to confirm its metallic content. Odin is a ~120 kg fully fueled deep-space probe built on Orbital Astronautics’ ORB-50 platform, with about 1×1×0.7 m dimensions and an approximate development cost of US$3.5 million. The spacecraft uses electric propulsion with xenon thrusters supplied by Dawn Aerospace, enabling a cruise of
16 June 2025
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SpaceX: Comprehensive Overview of History, Technologies, Missions, and Future Plans

SpaceX: Comprehensive Overview of History, Technologies, Missions, and Future Plans

September 2008: Falcon 1 reached orbit on its fourth flight, becoming the first privately developed liquid-fuel rocket to orbit Earth. December 2008: NASA awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract to deliver cargo to the ISS. May 2012: Dragon cargo capsule became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with and deliver cargo to the International Space Station. December 21, 2015: Falcon 9 first stage landed at Cape Canaveral, the world’s first orbital-class rocket to land. March 30, 2017: SpaceX re-launched a previously flown Falcon 9 booster on the SES-10 mission, the first orbital rocket reuse. May 30, 2020:
8 June 2025
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