Space News 28 September 2025 - 4 October 2025

Russia’s New Frontier: Satellite Warfare Senior UK officials say the war in Ukraine has spilled into space. In interviews with the BBC, Space Command chief Paul Tedman detailed how Russia regularly monitors and jams British military satellites. These jamming attacks are conducted from the ground by powerful transmitters that drown out the satellites’ signals ontheradar.csis.org portsmouth.co.uk. Crucially, jamming is non-kinetic: it disrupts data links but does not physically destroy the satellite ontheradar.csis.org. Once the interference stops, normal communications can resume. Tedman stressed that since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, these attempts have become “persistent, deliberate, and increasingly aggressive” united24media.com. When pressed on

Manhattan-Sized Visitor: Alien Mothership or Giant Comet? Discovery and Orbit Astronomers first spotted 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025, when the ATLAS asteroid survey telescope in Chile reported a fast-moving fuzzy object science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. Archived images quickly confirmed it follows a steep, open-ended (hyperbolic) path – a clear sign it was not born in our Solar System. NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar visitor (after 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019) science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. From its inbound direction near the constellation Sagittarius, it likely originated far from the Sun, perhaps even from the galactic center region science.nasa.gov. This