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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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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 12:01 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 12:01 CET

MTG-S1, launched July 1, 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying Sentinel-4, will provide continuous 3D atmospheric profiles from geostationary orbit and hourly high‑resolution air‑quality data. MethaneSAT, funded by Jeff Bezos and the Environmental Defense Fund and launched in March 2024, stopped responding in June 2025 and is considered irrecoverable, despite revealing methane leaks up to ten times higher than official estimates in some regions. Starlink 10-25 mission from Cape Canaveral deployed 27 satellites, marking SpaceX’s 500th Falcon 9 mission and booster B1067’s 29th flight. ESA’s Biomass satellite, launched in April 2025, uses a P-band radar to penetrate forests and
2 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 00:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 2nd, 00:00 CET

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images from Cerro Pachón, Chile, featuring galaxies and the Trifid Nebula, and will generate 10 million alerts per night with the world’s largest digital camera. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged a Saturn-mass exoplanet orbiting the star TWA 7. MTG-S1, a 1.8-ton satellite carrying the Sentinel-4 instrument, launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and will provide 3D atmospheric maps every 30 minutes along with hourly air-quality data. The MethaneSAT satellite, funded by EDF and Bezos Earth Fund and launched in March 2024, has lost power and is likely not recoverable, marking
2 July 2025
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Space News Digest: July 1, 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 12:02 CET

Space News Digest: July 1, 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 12:02 CET

The Vera Rubin Observatory began its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) with first light and a 3.2-gigapixel camera, aiming to image the southern sky every few days and catalog over 40 billion objects. Perseverance completed its 30th Martian rock analysis on a sample named Kenmore, using the gaseous Dust Removal Tool to study its interior mineralogy. Perseverance detected clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero Crater’s rim, suggesting ancient water activity about 4 billion years ago. Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama of Gale Crater, providing detailed context for ongoing geological investigations. FireSat plans deployment of over 50 satellites by 2029; FIRENET
1 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and New Frontiers (June 30, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 00:00 CET

Space News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and New Frontiers (June 30, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 00:00 CET

NASA’s SWOT satellite, launched in 2022, has revealed over 100,000 previously unknown seafloor features, more than doubling the number of known seamounts from 44,000 to over 100,000. ESA’s Biomass satellite, equipped with a pioneering P-band radar, enables direct measurement of above-ground biomass and was scheduled to launch in April 2025. Muon Space and Earth Fire Alliance’s FireSat constellation will provide 20-minute global wildfire surveillance with six infrared channels, capable of detecting fires as small as 5 meters, with full deployment by 2030. NOAA delayed the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program data cutoff to July 31, 2025 due to cybersecurity concerns, to
1 July 2025
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SpaceX’s Wild Week: Double Launches, Debris Controversy & a Crane Collapse Rock the Space Giant (28-30, June, 2025)

SpaceX’s Wild Week: Double Launches, Debris Controversy & a Crane Collapse Rock the Space Giant (28-30, June, 2025)

SpaceX’s launch tempo shows no sign of slowing. In one day, the company pulled off back-to-back Falcon 9 launches from opposite U.S. coasts space.com. In the early hours of June 28, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida with 27 Starlink internet satellites, followed by another Falcon 9 launch that afternoon from foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying 26 more space.com. Both missions were successful, with each rocket’s first-stage booster executing pinpoint landings on ocean droneships – one returning to “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic, the other touching down on “Of Course I Still Love You” in the Pacific space.com. These two Starlink launches in a single day expanded SpaceX’s ever-growing broadband constellation to over 7,900 active satellites in orbit space.com, underscoring the firm’s unprecedented launch cadence. SpaceX has made such frequent launches almost routine, leveraging reusable boosters that have flown as many as 5–8 times each space.com.
30 June 2025
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Space News Roundup: Satellite Internet, Climate Monitoring, and the Expanding Role of Space Technology (June 30, 2025) / Updated: 2025, June 30th, 14:21 CET

Space News Roundup: Satellite Internet, Climate Monitoring, and the Expanding Role of Space Technology (June 30, 2025) / Updated: 2025, June 30th, 14:21 CET

Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet constellation, now has over 5 million customers in 125 countries, with rivals including Eutelsat OneWeb, Globalstar, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper and government-led IRIS2 and QianFan programs. Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile formed SatCo, a Luxembourg-based joint venture aiming to deliver direct-to-device satellite connectivity across Europe by 2026, integrating with 4G/5G networks. MTG-S1, Europe’s next-generation Meteosat Third Generation Sounder, carries the Sentinel-4 payload for air quality and atmospheric monitoring over Europe and North Africa, and will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 with major European industry partners Thales Alenia Space, Airbus, GMV, and SENER. Japan’s GOSAT-GW climate satellite
30 June 2025
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Space News Roundup – June 29, 2025

Space News Roundup – June 29, 2025

It has been an exceptionally busy period for orbital launches around the globe. Japan’s H-2A rocket flew its 50th and final mission, drawing the curtain on a 24-year career. The liquid-fueled H-2A, developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA, successfully lofted an Earth-observation satellit into a sun-synchronous orbit on June 28 spacenews.com spacenews.com. The payload, nicknamed GOSAT-GW, will monitor greenhouse gas levels and the water cycle from space spacenews.com. Crowds of onlookers in Tanegashima cheered the nighttime launch, which achieved a long-held reliability goal of 98% success for the H-2A series english.kyodonews.net. “I was more nervous than ever about the launch… We achieved our long-cherished goal of a 98 percent success rate,” said Mitsubishi launch director Keiji Suzuki as Japan shifts to the newer H3 rocket going forward english.kyodonews.net. The final H-2A flight was one of four orbital launches within 13 hours on June 28, bookended by other commercial missions spacenews.com.
29 June 2025
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Quiet Goodbye, Bold Hello: Japan’s H3 Rocket Takes the Torch from H-2A to Slash Costs and Double Cadence

Quiet Goodbye, Bold Hello: Japan’s H3 Rocket Takes the Torch from H-2A to Slash Costs and Double Cadence

Japan’s workhorse H-2A rocket concluded nearly 25 years of service with its 50th and final launch on June 28, 2025, carrying the GOSAT-GW climate-monitoring satellite into orbit Space Space. Debuting in 2001, the H-2A achieved a 98% success rate – a testament to its reliability Space. Over its lifetime, H-2A lofted critical payloads such as the SELENE lunar orbiter, Akatsuki Venus probe, Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample-return, and even the Emirates Mars Mission, showcasing Japan’s launch capabilities on the world stage Space Arstechnica. This storied rocket is now retired to make way for H3, Japan’s next-generation launcher designed to be more cost-effective and flexible while carrying on a legacy of dependable service Space.
29 June 2025
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ForgeStar-1: Pioneering the UK’s Orbital Chip Foundry in Space

ForgeStar-1: Pioneering the UK’s Orbital Chip Foundry in Space

ForgeStar-1 is a groundbreaking in-space manufacturing satellite developed by Welsh startup Space Forge – a project aimed at creating the world’s first orbital semiconductor foundry. Launched in June 2025, ForgeStar-1 became the UK’s first in-space manufacturing mission, designed to produce advanced semiconductor materials in the microgravity environment of Low Earth Orbit spaceforge.com. Built entirely in Cardiff, Wales, this reusable satellite platform leverages the unique conditions of space – weightlessness, ultra-clean vacuum, and extreme temperatures – to fabricate electronics that would be difficult or impossible to make on Earth spaceforge.com gov.wales. The mission represents a major breakthrough for British space technology and materials science, marking the first time the UK has sent a spacecraft to orbit with the explicit purpose of manufacturing new materials spaceforge.com.
29 June 2025
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

The U.S. Space Force has tapped SpaceX for a $81.6 million National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 1 task order to loft the Weather System Follow-on–Microwave 2 satellite and a rideshare stack of small DoD spacecraft in the first half of fiscal 2027. The award—designated mission USSF-178—marks SpaceX’s third straight win under the new NSSL contracting framework and underscores the company’s tightening grip on U.S. national-security launches. Below is a deep-dive on what the contract covers, why the WSF-M satellites matter, and how the deal reshapes the military-launch market.
29 June 2025
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Space News Digest: June 2025 / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 07:59 CET

Space News Digest: June 2025 / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 07:59 CET

Space Coast launches set records with 93 launches in 2024 and up to 156 projected for 2025, driven by SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin. SpaceX’s Starlink megaconstellation has surpassed 7,900 satellites in orbit. Two Falcon 9 missions deployed 53 Starlink satellites within 13 hours, marking SpaceX’s 81st launch of 2025 and the 468th booster recovery. Amazon’s Project Kuiper has 54 satellites in orbit toward a planned 3,200-satellite constellation, with AWS data processing integration. Japan’s H-2A rocket completed its 50th and final mission, deploying the greenhouse gas monitoring satellite GOSAT-GW, as the H3 rocket begins to replace H-2A. The Vera C.
29 June 2025
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Space News Digest: June 2025 / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 00:31 CET

Space News Digest: June 2025 / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 00:31 CET

Rocket Lab completed two Electron launches within 48 hours at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, including the Get the Hawk Outta Here mission that deployed four satellites: three Hawkeye 360 RF geolocation microsatellites and the Kestrel-0A experimental satellite. Amazon expanded Project Kuiper by launching 27 new satellites into low Earth orbit, while SpaceX’s Starlink added 80 satellites in a single week, pushing its active constellation past 7,900. Japan marked the 50th and final H-2A launch by deploying the GOSAT-GW greenhouse gas and water-cycle satellite, part of a fleet that achieved 66 launches (63 successful) over 31 years. South Korea’s
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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June 2025 Science Breakthroughs and Projects: Medicine, Space, Climate, AI & More

June 2025 Science Breakthroughs and Projects: Medicine, Space, Climate, AI & More

June 2025 has been a landmark month for science, with breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, climate science, physics, artificial intelligence, energy, biology, and more. This comprehensive report reviews the latest scientific news from June 2025 and looks ahead to major projects and trends for the remainder of 2025. We cover recent discoveries and studies, provide context and expert insights, and highlight what to watch in the coming months.
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

Webb Directly Images a Saturn-Mass Exoplanet: For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet previously unknown – a young gas giant roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting the star TWA 7 science.nasa.gov reuters.com. This object, dubbed TWA 7 b, is about 50 AU from its star and is the lightest planet ever captured in a direct image science.nasa.gov reuters.com. It lies in a gap of TWA 7’s debris disk, matching predictions that a planet of this mass was sculpting the disk’s structure science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. “Our observations reveal a strong candidate for a planet shaping the structure of the TWA 7 debris disk, and its position is exactly where we expected,” said lead author Anne-Marie Lagrange science.nasa.gov. This marks Webb’s first direct exoplanet discovery – previously the telescope had studied known exoplanets, but not found new ones reuters.com reuters.com. Only
28 June 2025
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Texting From Space: The T-Mobile–Starlink ‘T-Satellite’ Launch Heralds the Direct-to-Device Era

Texting From Space: The T-Mobile–Starlink ‘T-Satellite’ Launch Heralds the Direct-to-Device Era

In August 2022, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced an ambitious partnership called “Coverage Above and Beyond,” aiming to end mobile dead zones by connecting standard smartphones to SpaceX’s Starlink satellitest-mobile.comt-mobile.com. Under this vision, Starlink’s low-Earth-orbit satellites would broadcast using T-Mobile’s cellular spectrum, essentially acting as space-based cell towers. The goal: provide “near complete coverage” in regions previously unreachable by cell signals, from national parks and mountains to remote highwayst-mobile.comt-mobile.com. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert framed it as “two industry-shaking innovators challenging the old ways… to create something entirely new”, while SpaceX chief Elon Musk declared it means “no dead zones anywhere in the world for your cell phone”t-mobile.com.
28 June 2025
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This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation / Updated: 2025-06-28 08:00

This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation / Updated: 2025-06-28 08:00

China’s Zhongxing-9C satellite was launched on June 20, 2025, atop a Long March 3B from Xichang, marking the full localization of Chinese broadcast satellites in the 582nd Long March flight. SpaceX launched the Starlink 10-34 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, deploying 27 Starlink satellites and bringing the active constellation to nearly 8,000, with the booster marking its fifth flight. Rocket Lab’s Get The Hawk Outta Here mission placed four HawkEye 360 satellites into orbit, including three microsats for RF geolocation and the experimental Kestrel-0A. EarthDaily launched its first satellite to begin a ten-satellite constellation delivering AI-powered daily global
28 June 2025
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Today in Space / June 28, 2025 0:00

Today in Space / June 28, 2025 0:00

SpaceX’s Starship suffered a further explosion during a static-fire test at Starbase, Texas, as the company has now completed nine Starship test flights with a record launch cadence in 2024–2025. SpaceX’s Axiom-4 mission docked with the International Space Station, marking India’s return to human spaceflight after 41 years as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian to reach the ISS, with Peggy Whitson leading a two-week, 60+ experiment research phase. NASA and Northrop Grumman conducted the Booster Obsolescence Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor test for the Artemis program, which ended with a nozzle explosion but yielded data for
28 June 2025
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