Rapid-Fire Launches Span US, Europe, and Australia SpaceX’s Starlink Doubleheader: SpaceX achieved two back-to-back Falcon 9 launches in under 24 hours, bolstering its Starlink internet constellation. Early Saturday morning (July 26) a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:01 a.m. EDT carrying 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit space.com. Less than a day…
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New Launches and Mission Milestones Russia and Europe – Science Satellites to Orbit: On July 25, Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Vostochny Cosmodrome, carrying two Ionosfera-M research satellites into polar orbit nasaspaceflight.com. The mission, part of Russia’s “Ionozond” program, completed a constellation to monitor ionospheric space weather effects on Earth’s environment space.com…
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The Universe’s Skeleton Revealed: Mapping the Cosmic Web Astronomers have achieved a milestone in cosmic cartography by mapping the cosmic web—the vast, filamentary structure that connects galaxy clusters across the universe. Using X-ray observatories, Konstantinos Migkas and his team detected a staggering 23-million-light-year filament, with temperatures soaring to 10 million degrees. This filament, more than…
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Space News Digest: June 2025 An In-Depth Analysis of the Latest Breakthroughs, Launches, and Discoveries in the Global Space Sector Table of Contents 1. Space Coast Launches: Breaking Records and Shaping the Future 2. Satellite Mega-Constellations: Starlink, Kuiper, and the New Race for Orbit 3. Japan’s H-2A Rocket Retires: A New Era with H3 4.…
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June 2025 Space News: Breakthroughs, Missions, and the Expanding Frontier Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Space Exploration and Human Spaceflight Axiom-4: India’s Return to Human Spaceflight ISS Operations Amidst Air Leak Concerns Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-33 Launch 3. Satellite Technology and Earth Observation ESA’s Biomass and Forest Carbon Monitoring Japan’s GOSAT-GW and the…
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NATO’s biggest space-data deal to date pairs the Alliance’s new Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space (APSS) programme with the world’s largest commercial radar-satellite fleet, run by Finnish unicorn ICEYE. Below you’ll find a deep-dive on what the contract actually covers, why it matters strategically and commercially, the technology under the hood, and the open questions…
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Iran’s attempt to criminalize Starlink use is colliding head-on with an underground network that is bigger, richer, and more technologically agile than the regime anticipated. Unless SpaceX bows to the ITU—or Iran finds a reliable way to geolocate and seize every dish—satellite internet will continue to poke holes in the Islamic Republic’s digital iron curtain.…
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