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Secret SpaceX Launch, Starlink Triumphs, and Solar Storm Warnings – Space News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

Secret SpaceX Launch, Starlink Triumphs, and Solar Storm Warnings – Space News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

SpaceX launched a secret Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral on July 13, 2025 at 1:04 a.m. EDT carrying Israel’s Dror-1 satellite, described as a $200 million “smartphone in space” and marking Falcon 9’s 500th flight with the booster’s 13th successful landing on a droneship. China prepared the Tianzhou-9 cargo mission to Tiangong by rolling out a Long March-7 Y10 on July 12, aiming to deliver about 6.5 tons of supplies, two new-generation spacesuits rated for 20 spacewalks each, and a backup Long March-7 rocket on standby. Rocket Lab conducted a suborbital HASTE mission from Wallops Island on July 12
14 July 2025
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Space News Explosion: Solar Sails, Interstellar Visitors, and the Race to Dominate the Final Frontier / Updated: 2025, July 12th, 00:00 CET

Space News Explosion: Solar Sails, Interstellar Visitors, and the Race to Dominate the Final Frontier / Updated: 2025, July 12th, 00:00 CET

The SWIFT satellite constellation uses advanced solar sails to deliver earlier, more accurate space weather warnings. In December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe yielded the closest-ever images of the Sun’s corona and CMEs, vastly improving space weather predictions. SpaceX’s Starlink now has nearly 6,000 satellites in orbit and has regulatory approval to operate in India. Firefly Aerospace aims for an IPO around $2 billion, leveraging its Alpha rocket, Blue Ghost lunar lander, and Northrop Grumman partnerships. The Crew-11 mission will launch on July 31, sending four astronauts—two from NASA, one from JAXA, and one from Roscosmos—to the ISS aboard Crew
12 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:02 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:02 CET

SpaceX operates over 7,000 satellites and posted $4.2 billion in revenue for 2024, with a target valuation of $400 billion to $4 trillion in upcoming funding rounds. Starlink aims for 22,000 satellites by 2030 and could capture 15% of global communications spending. Ovzon secured a SEK 72 million order from Sweden’s FMV for mobile satellite terminals, with deliveries starting in Q3 2025. MEASAT received IN-SPACe approval to provide satellite services in India, expanding access to over 600 TV channels and 11 million DTH customers. EarthDaily Analytics launched the first of its ten-satellite EarthDaily Constellation, delivering daily AI-ready, scientifically calibrated global
9 July 2025
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China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks – Space News Roundup (Updated July 8, 2025 0:00 CET)

China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks – Space News Roundup (Updated July 8, 2025 0:00 CET)

China launched the Three-Body Computing Constellation, with each satellite delivering 744 TOPS and the network targeting 1 EOPS for in-orbit AI and real-time data processing. China proposes a Neptune Orbiter for 2033 powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators to study Neptune, its moon Triton, and deep-space propulsion capabilities. BeiDou-3 has been completed with 30 operational satellites providing global high-precision geolocation services for civil, commercial, and military users. Harbin Institute of Technology’s Gongda Satellite aims to deliver over 20 satellites in 2025, enabling software-defined remote sensing with data turnaround as fast as 8 minutes. Li Deren’s Eastern Eye constellation targets more than
8 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 12:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 6th, 12:00 CET

MTG-S1, Europe’s first geostationary meteorological sounder, was launched with an Infrared Sounder and Copernicus Sentinel-4, enabling high-frequency atmospheric data collection over Europe and Africa. SpaceX planned the Starlink 10-28 mission for June 8 from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9, marking the 59th orbital launch of 2025, and won an $81.6 million USSF-178 contract. SpaceX’s Starship exploded over Florida during ascent, scattering debris before four mock satellites could be deployed. T-Mobile will launch T-Satellite with Starlink service on July 23, authorized for nearly all phones including the iPhone 13, with full satellite internet rolling out in October. MethaneSAT, an $88
6 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 12:00 CET

Europe launched its first geostationary atmospheric sounding satellite, MTG-S1, as part of the Meteosat Third Generation program, equipped with a hyperspectral infrared sounder and Copernicus Sentinel-4 for air-quality monitoring, with a 9–12 month commissioning phase. Russia’s Kosmos-2558 approached the U.S. reconnaissance satellite USA-326, with a sub-satellite ‘Object C’ displaying high maneuverability and potential anti-satellite capabilities. MethaneSAT, an $88 million climate satellite launched in March 2024 by EDF, Google, and SpaceX, lost contact after 15 months, creating a gap in global methane-emissions monitoring. SpaceX marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch, deploying Starlink satellites as the booster landed successfully and its overall
3 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 00:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 3rd, 00:00 CET

SpaceX marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch with the deployment of 27 Starlink satellites and the 29th booster reuse. MTG-S1, Europe’s first geostationary hyperspectral infrared atmospheric sounder, launched July 1, 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 alongside the Sentinel-4 instrument for hourly air-quality data over Europe and North Africa. MethaneSAT, an $88 million climate satellite funded by Jeff Bezos and EDF and launched in March 2024, was declared lost after losing contact on June 20, 2025. James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged TWA 7b, a Saturn-mass exoplanet about 110 light-years away, with a surface temperature around 120°F. James Webb mapped
3 July 2025
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

Space News Roundup – June 29, 2025

Japan’s H-2A rocket completed its 50th and final mission on June 28 (US time), launching the GOSAT-GW (“Ibuki”) greenhouse gases and water-cycle satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit with an official 98% reliability rate for the H-2A family. Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-33 flight from Launch Site One in West Texas on June 29 carried six space tourists, including a husband-and-wife team, with Carl Kuehner becoming the 750th person in space. SpaceX conducted a rapid-fire Falcon 9 doubleheader—one launch from Cape Canaveral just after midnight on June 28 and a second from Vandenberg 13 hours later—deploying dozens of Starlink satellites and
29 June 2025
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Latest Satellite News / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:39 CET

Latest Satellite News / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:39 CET

Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree panorama of boxwork ridges at Gale Crater using 291 Mastcam images. China’s Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return mission targets a 2028 launch and a 2031 return. Japan’s final H-2A rocket launch deployed the GOSAT-GW climate satellite, as the country transitions to the H3 rocket with an overall 98% success rate over 50 launches. Amazon launched its second Kuiper internet satellite batch,
29 June 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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Latest Satellite News & Insights 25.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 25.06.2025

EarthDaily Analytics launched its first Earth observation satellite, initiating a next-generation ten-satellite constellation to deliver daily AI-ready global imagery and analytics, with the full constellation expected to be operational next year. SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 booster (B1080) in its 20th flight, with the first stage successfully recovered, expanding global internet coverage to over 7,800 active relays. James Webb Space Telescope captured its first direct image of exoplanet TWA 7 b about 110 light-years away using a coronagraph on the MIRI instrument. ESA’s Biomass satellite released its first radar images using P-band synthetic
24 June 2025
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