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Space News 15 September 2025 - 17 September 2025

Belgium’s Space Boom: From Small Nation to Satellite Powerhouse

Belgium’s Space Boom: From Small Nation to Satellite Powerhouse

Key Facts at a Glance Historical Evolution: From Early Collaborator to ESA Pillar Belgium’s journey in space began in the 1960s, making it one of the earliest European nations involved in space endeavors Belgium. In 1962 the government formed Belgospace, an industry-academia forum to coordinate Belgium’s participation in Europe’s first space organizations (ELDO for launchers and ESRO for science satellites) Switchtospace. Belgium became a founding member of ESA in 1975 and embraced a multilateral approach – recognizing that pooling resources was the way for a small country to achieve big goals in space Belgium. Over decades, Belgium honed specific strengths
17 September 2025
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Rocket Launch Frenzy, Solar Surprises & Space Race Showdowns: 48 Hours of Space News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Rocket Launch Frenzy, Solar Surprises & Space Race Showdowns: 48 Hours of Space News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Rapid-Fire Rocket Launches and Satellite Deployments SpaceX’s Starlink blitz: SpaceX continued its high-frequency launch campaign, highlighting how routine orbital deployment has become. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a polar low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff occurred at 8:43 am PDT (15:43 UTC), and about eight minutes later the veteran booster (B1088 on its 10th flight) landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com. This “Starlink Group 17-12” mission was SpaceX’s 83rd Starlink launch of 2025, pushing the year’s Starlink satellite tally above 2,000 deployed so
17 September 2025
Tech Shockwaves: Slimmest iPhone, TikTok’s Lifeline & Space Glitches – Major Tech News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Tech Shockwaves: Slimmest iPhone, TikTok’s Lifeline & Space Glitches – Major Tech News (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Key Facts Consumer Electronics: Slim Phones and Smart Glasses Apple’s Thinnest iPhone Yet: Apple’s fall product event introduced the iPhone Air, a dramatically slimmed-down iPhone that Apple billed as its biggest design shake-up in eight years reuters.com reuters.com. At just 5.6 mm thick, the iPhone Air is thinner than even its rival Samsung’s 5.8 mm Galaxy S25 Edge reuters.com. Inside the razor-thin chassis, Apple managed to fit its latest A19 Pro processor and claimed “all-day” battery life reuters.com reuters.com. The device carries a single rear camera (a trade-off to achieve the ultra-thin design) and uses an eSIM-only approach – something analysts warned
17 September 2025
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Space Junk Gold Rush: Inside the 2025–2032 Race to Clean Up Earth’s Orbit and Cash In on Sustainability

Space Junk Cleanup Breakthrough: Ion Engine Exhaust Could Blast Debris Out of Orbit

The Ion Engine Exhaust Method: Blasting Debris with Plasma In this novel concept, a cleanup satellite approaches a piece of orbital debris and fires a stream of plasma (electrically charged gas) from an ion thruster to gradually slow the object’s orbital speed space.com. Slowing an object causes its orbit to decay; eventually it reenters the atmosphere and burns up harmlessly. The key innovation by Kazunori Takahashi of Tohoku University is a bi-directional plasma thruster that solves a fundamental problem: when you shoot an ion beam one way, Newton’s third law pushes your spacecraft the opposite way space.com. Takahashi’s design mounts
16 September 2025
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Baby Black Hole Booted Across Space: First-Ever Measurement of a Cosmic “Natal Kick”

Baby Black Hole Booted Across Space: First-Ever Measurement of a Cosmic “Natal Kick”

A Cosmic Kick: Newborn Black Hole Sent Careening Through Space On April 12, 2019, two black holes collided 2.4 billion light-years away – an event detected as gravitational-wave signal GW190412. What happened next was extraordinary: the newly merged black hole was launched across space by a “natal kick,” like a cosmic cannonball. Now in 2025, scientists have measured the speed and direction of this recoiling black hole for the first time ever livescience.com igfae.usc.es. The remnant black hole blasted off at over 50 kilometers per second (about 180,000 km/h), likely fast enough to escape the cluster of stars it came
16 September 2025
Skyscraper-Size Asteroid Once Feared to Hit Earth Zooms Past This Week – How to Watch Live

Skyscraper-Size Asteroid Once Feared to Hit Earth Zooms Past This Week – How to Watch Live

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, once briefly feared to pose an impact risk decades from now, is about to make a close (but safe) flyby of Earth on Thursday, September 18, 2025. This near-Earth asteroid, officially designated 2025 FA22, will whiz by at ~24,000 mph in the early hours of Thursday, coming within about 520,000 miles (835,000 km) of our planet – roughly 2.2 times the distance of the Moon livescience.com. Discovered only in March 2025, the giant space rock made headlines when initial calculations suggested a slim chance of an Earth impact in the year 2089, briefly
16 September 2025
The Universe Is Expanding Even Faster Than We Thought – New Study Sparks Cosmic ‘Crisis’

The Universe Is Expanding Even Faster Than We Thought – New Study Sparks Cosmic ‘Crisis’

A Surprise in the Stars: New Study Measures Faster Expansion Recent observations have delivered a startling message: the universe appears to be expanding even faster than our standard cosmological model predicts phys.org. In a new high-precision study, a team led by Dan Scolnic of Duke University used the cosmic distance ladder method to measure how quickly space is stretching. They focused on the Coma Cluster of galaxies (one of the nearest big clusters) and analyzed 12 Type Ia supernovae within it—exploding stars that serve as reliable “standard candles” because their true brightness is known phys.org. By comparing their known luminosity to
16 September 2025
Northrop’s New “Chonker” Spacecraft Debuts – Cygnus XL Takes on SpaceX & Boeing

Northrop’s New “Chonker” Spacecraft Debuts – Cygnus XL Takes on SpaceX & Boeing

Design and Capabilities of Northrop’s Cygnus XL Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL is an enlarged version of the company’s proven Cygnus cargo spacecraft, engineered to carry significantly more supplies to orbit. Design-wise, the Cygnus XL consists of two main parts: a cylindrical pressurized cargo module (PCM) where goods are stored, and a service module with propulsion, power, and avionics. The XL variant’s pressurized module has been stretched by 5.2 feet (1.6 m) compared to earlier models cbsnews.com. This extension boosts the internal volume by about one-third, allowing Cygnus XL to accommodate bulkier and heavier cargo loads than before. Northrop reports the new craft
16 September 2025
Brazil’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: New Players, Big Plans, and a Sky-High 2040 Outlook

Brazil’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: New Players, Big Plans, and a Sky-High 2040 Outlook

Key Facts Historical Development of Brazil’s Space & Satellite Industry Brazil’s space journey began in the early 1960s amid the space race era. In 1961, the government formed its first space research group (GOCNAE) and by 1964 started launching home-grown Sonda sounding rockets for high-atmosphere research en.wikipedia.org. Over the next two decades, Brazil methodically built up expertise in rocketry and satellite technology, albeit under military oversight during the Cold War. A milestone plan, the Missão Espacial Completa Brasileira (MECB) launched in 1980, aimed to make Brazil self-sufficient in space tech – including developing launch vehicles, a launch site, and a
16 September 2025
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Space Race Showdown, Mars Surprises & a New ‘Mini-Moon’ – Global Space News (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Space Race Showdown, Mars Surprises & a New ‘Mini-Moon’ – Global Space News (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Key Highlights Launches and Mission Updates China’s latest launch: On Sept. 16, China launched a test satellite for its planned satellite-internet network, using a Long March 2C rocket with a Yuanzheng-1S upper stage english.news.cn. Liftoff from Jiuquan at 9:06 a.m. Beijing time was successful, inserting the tech demo satellite into orbit to advance China’s broadband megaconstellation plans. This marked the 595th flight of China’s Long March rocket family english.news.cn, underscoring China’s rapid launch cadence. The mission highlights Beijing’s push into satellite internet – an area of growing strategic importance as China races to build its own Starlink-like network. SpaceX boosts ISS resupply: Over the weekend,
16 September 2025
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Space Races, Chip Wars & Cyber Shocks: Global Tech Roundup (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Space Races, Chip Wars & Cyber Shocks: Global Tech Roundup (Sept 15–16, 2025)

Key Facts Consumer Electronics: Big Bets and New Launches Meta’s $800 Smart Glasses: Meta Platforms is doubling down on augmented reality hardware. At its upcoming Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will debut Meta’s first consumer smart glasses with an integrated display reuters.com. Codenamed “Hypernova” (to be marketed as Celeste), the high-tech specs feature a mini display in the right lens for basic notifications reuters.com. Analysts expect a steep ~$800 price tag, reflecting Meta’s push to stay relevant in AR even as it lags rivals in AI software reuters.com. The glasses underscore Meta’s strategy to fuse AI and AR – offering
16 September 2025
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Australia’s Final Frontier: Inside the Rapid Rise of its Space & Satellite Industry

Australia’s Final Frontier: Inside the Rapid Rise of its Space & Satellite Industry

Key Facts and Figures Historical Context: A Decade of Ascent in Space Just over a decade ago, Australia’s space efforts were scattered across academia, defense, and niche industries. Unlike other nations, Australia had no central space agency until recently. In the 2010s, momentum built to coordinate and grow this sector. A 2017 expert review recommended forming a national agency to capitalize on booming global opportunities newspaceeconomy.ca. Consequently, the Australian Space Agency (ASA) was established on 1 July 2018, marking the nation’s return to space leadership after decades on the sidelines wa.gov.au. This followed high-profile moments like hosting the International Astronautical
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Stock Market Today

AT&T stock price: T slips after $6.5B bond sale as payrolls, CPI loom next week

AT&T stock price: T slips after $6.5B bond sale as payrolls, CPI loom next week

7 February 2026
AT&T shares closed down 0.7% at $27.13 on Friday, underperforming the S&P 500’s 1.97% gain. The company completed a $6.5 billion global notes sale this week, with maturities from 2031 to 2056 and coupons between 4.4% and 6%. Investors await delayed U.S. jobs and inflation data, along with T-Mobile’s upcoming earnings update.
GE Vernova stock price jumps toward $800 — what to know before Monday trade

GE Vernova stock price jumps toward $800 — what to know before Monday trade

7 February 2026
GE Vernova shares jumped 5.7% to $779.35 Friday after Baird upgraded the stock and the Dow closed above 50,000. The company’s onshore wind unit reported 1.1 GW in U.S. repower orders for 2025, a figure previously disclosed. GE Vernova also completed a $2.6 billion senior notes offering to help fund its Prolec GE stake purchase. Next earnings report is set for April 22.
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