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Space News 21 September 2025 - 24 September 2025

Tech Shockwaves: Cyber Attacks, Electric Skies & Space Launches Rock September 23-24, 2025

Tech Shockwaves: Cyber Attacks, Electric Skies & Space Launches Rock September 23-24, 2025

Key Facts Consumer Tech & Gadgets Apple’s latest flagships made waves as the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max hit the market. Unveiled with a laser-welded aluminum unibody and Apple’s new A19 Pro chip, the iPhone 17 Pro series delivers the “most powerful” performance and an “enormous leap in battery life,” according to Apple’s marketing chief Greg Joswiak apple.com. The phones pack three 48 MP “Fusion” cameras (wide, ultra-wide, and a new 8× zoom telephoto) and a tougher Ceramic Shield 2 glass for greater durability apple.com apple.com. Apple also rolled out iOS 26 with new features (though early adopters noted some battery drain as the
24 September 2025
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AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

ASTS Stock Performance – Sky-High in 2025 AST SpaceMobile’s stock has been on a meteoric rise in 2025, turning heads on Wall Street. On September 23, 2025, ASTS jumped about 10% during the trading day, hovering in the mid-$50s per share investing.com. This spike brought the stock near its all-time highs (~$60) and represented a dramatic climb from roughly $18 a year ago. By comparison, the S&P 500’s performance over the same period has been far more subdued, underlining ASTS’s outsized gains. Year-to-date, ASTS has more than doubled in value (up ~100–150% YTD) amid a wave of optimistic news investing.com.
23 September 2025
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‘God of Chaos’ Asteroid Apophis to Skim Earth in 2029 – Inside the Historic Flyby and the 3 Probes Racing to Study It

Astronomers Propose Blowing Up a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Key Facts and Summary The Asteroid 2024 YR4: From Earth Hazard to Lunar Threat 2024 YR4 is a recently discovered asteroid that has drawn intense attention from astronomers and space agencies. Detected on 27 December 2024 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, it initially appeared on a worrisome trajectory esa.int. In early 2025, automated orbit calculations raised the alarm that this ~60-meter “city-killer” asteroid had a roughly 3% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032 esa.int universetoday.com. A few percent might sound small, but by asteroid risk standards it’s huge – for context, NASA’s risk list almost never
23 September 2025
Mexico’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: 2025 Market Report & Future Outlook

Mexico’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: 2025 Market Report & Future Outlook

Overall, Mexico’s space and satellite industry in 2025 is at an inflection point. After decades of gradual groundwork – from the first experimental rockets in the 1950s room.eu.com, to launching communications satellites in the 1980s, to establishing AEM in 2010 – the country is now leaping forward with a coordinated national strategy. Government programs are aligning with private innovation and academic talent, creating an ecosystem primed for takeoff. The historical constraints (limited funding, fragmented efforts) are giving way to new momentum fueled by ambitious policies and global partnerships. Challenges remain – funding needs to scale up from the modest ~$3
23 September 2025
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Spy Satellite Launch, New Astronauts & a Lunar Lander Deal – Space News Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Spy Satellite Launch, New Astronauts & a Lunar Lander Deal – Space News Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Rocket Launches and Satellite Deployments Spy sats on the West Coast: SpaceX lofted another batch of classified U.S. spy satellites on Sept. 22, with a Falcon 9 roaring off Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:38 p.m. EDT (10:38 a.m. local) space.com. The NROL-48 mission – SpaceX’s 11th dedicated launch for the National Reconnaissance Office’s new “proliferated architecture” – carried a cluster of undisclosed reconnaissance payloads. The NRO is pivoting to large numbers of smaller satellites instead of a few big ones, aiming to deliver “an order of magnitude more signals and images” with faster revisit times and resilience space.com. SpaceX’s webcast cut off early
23 September 2025
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Tech Shockwaves: Space Spies, TikTok’s Lifeline & Cyber Chaos – Global Tech Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Tech Shockwaves: Space Spies, TikTok’s Lifeline & Cyber Chaos – Global Tech Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Global Tech Policy & Big Tech Battles TikTok’s Last-Minute Reprieve in U.S. A high-stakes TikTok divestment deal is coming to fruition in Washington, staving off a looming ban. President Donald Trump will sign an order declaring that TikTok’s U.S. operations have a buyer that meets legal requirements, a White House official said reuters.com. Under the plan, China’s ByteDance will retain less than 20% of TikTok, with the U.S. entity controlled by existing American stakeholders and new heavyweight investors reuters.com. Oracle and private equity firm Silver Lake are confirmed participants, and the full roster “is going to be real household names,”
23 September 2025
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Jeff Bezos’ Free-Flying Space Camera Wows the World – With a Mysterious Spinning Twist

Jeff Bezos’ Free-Flying Space Camera Wows the World – With a Mysterious Spinning Twist

Bezos Unveils a Futuristic Free-Flying Space Camera A frame from Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-35 flight footage, captured by the free-flying 360° camera after it detached in space. The camera’s perspective shows the booster and capsule above Earth’s horizon, offering a dramatic “third-person” view of the rocket. Jeff Bezos took to social media to reveal an “amazing” free-flying space camera that was deployed during Blue Origin’s latest suborbital flight. The camera was released on the New Shepard NS-35 mission (launched September 18, 2025 from West Texas) to independently float alongside the rocket and capsule techeblog.com. In the short clip Bezos
22 September 2025
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Fly Through the Milky Way: ESA’s Stunning New 3D Galaxy Map Lets You Tour Our Galaxy

Fly Through the Milky Way: ESA’s Stunning New 3D Galaxy Map Lets You Tour Our Galaxy

Background: Mapping the Milky Way with Gaia Launching on 19 December 2013, the ESA’s Gaia spacecraft set out to chart our Milky Way in unprecedented detail ucl.ac.uk. Stationed at the stable L2 point about 1.5 million km from Earth – the same deep-space neighborhood as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – Gaia had a very different mission: to survey our own galaxy rather than peering at the distant universe earthsky.org. Over more than a decade, Gaia repeatedly scanned the sky with a billion-pixel camera, measuring the position, brightness, and motion of billions of stars multiple times earthsky.org earthsky.org. This technique
22 September 2025
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Argentina’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: Inside the Satellite Boom and What’s Next

Argentina’s Space Industry Is Taking Off: Inside the Satellite Boom and What’s Next

Key Facts Historical Evolution of Argentina’s Space Industry Argentina’s journey into space began remarkably early. In the 1940s, visionary engineer Teófilo Tabanera formed the Sociedad Argentina Interplanetaria, making Argentina the first Latin American country with a spaceflight organization en.wikipedia.org. By 1960 – nearly a year before humans reached space – Argentina established the National Commission for Space Research (CNIE) with Tabanera at the helm en.wikipedia.org. Throughout the 1960s, CNIE and the Air Force’s research institute launched a series of indigenous multistage high-altitude rockets (Alfa Centauro, Beta Centauro, Orión, Canopus, etc.), successfully sending scientific payloads to the upper atmosphere en.wikipedia.org. In
22 September 2025
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Space Spectacle: NASA Unveils New Astronauts, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Cosmic Breakthroughs (21–22 Sep 2025)

Space Spectacle: NASA Unveils New Astronauts, SpaceX Launch Blitz & Cosmic Breakthroughs (21–22 Sep 2025)

Key Facts Major Launches and Mission Updates NASA’s Space Weather Trio Set for Launch: At Kennedy Space Center, NASA and NOAA are on the cusp of launching three spacecraft that promise new insight into solar storms and the Solar System’s boundary. On Sept. 21, officials declared the IMAP mission (“Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe”) and its two co-manifested satellites “go” for launch science.nasa.gov. IMAP will travel ~1.5 million km sunward to the Sun–Earth L1 point to map the heliosphere – the magnetic bubble shielding our Solar System – and study how solar wind particles and cosmic rays interact at that
22 September 2025
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Norway’s Space Industry Is Skyrocketing – Inside the High North’s Satellite Boom

Norway’s Space Industry Is Skyrocketing – Inside the High North’s Satellite Boom

In conclusion, Norway’s space and satellite industry has quietly grown into a dynamic, multi-faceted sector that touches many aspects of modern life – from the TV we stream, to the ships monitored off the coast, to scientific discoveries in the aurora. Long overshadowed by bigger spacefaring nations, Norway is now stepping into the limelight with new infrastructure and bold projects. “Our commercial space activities will put Norway on the map as a strategic, European asset in the space sector,” says NOSA Director Christian Hauglie-Hanssen businessnorway.com. The recent flurry of activity – a new spaceport, new satellites, new partnerships – suggests
21 September 2025
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Weekend Science Bonanza: Breakthroughs From Space to Superbugs

Weekend Science Bonanza: Breakthroughs From Space to Superbugs

Space & Astronomy Humanity’s search for cosmic neighbors hit a celebratory peak. NASA announced it has confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets – planets orbiting other stars – just three decades after finding the very first such world entechonline.com. This tally reflects an explosion of discoveries by telescopes like Kepler and TESS. “Each of the different types of planets we discover gives us information about… how common planets like Earth might be,” explained Dr. Dawn Gelino, who leads NASA’s exoplanet program, noting that every discovery helps us inch closer to answering the ultimate question of whether we’re alone sciencealert.com. The 6,000-planet milestone
21 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

BBAI stock jumps 16% into BigBear.ai share-vote week — what to watch next

BBAI stock jumps 16% into BigBear.ai share-vote week — what to watch next

7 February 2026
BigBear.ai Holdings shares surged 15.7% Friday to $4.72 ahead of a key shareholder vote on doubling authorized shares to 1 billion. Options trading was heavy, with a put/call ratio of 0.19. The company recently announced deals in AI customs technology and a partnership with Abu Dhabi’s AD Ports Group. The special meeting is set for Feb. 18, with online voting open until late Feb. 17.
American Airlines stock jumps nearly 8% as airlines rally — what to watch next week

American Airlines stock jumps nearly 8% as airlines rally — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
American Airlines shares jumped 7.6% to $15.24 Friday, rebounding with a broad rally that sent the Dow past 50,000 for the first time. Investors are watching the carrier’s battle with United at Chicago O’Hare, where a summer capacity surge could trigger a fare war. American also announced new Philadelphia–Porto service for 2027 and launched a centennial inflight menu.
Apple stock price ends week higher as Dow hits 50,000; jobs and CPI loom next

Apple stock price ends week higher as Dow hits 50,000; jobs and CPI loom next

7 February 2026
Apple closed up 0.8% at $278.12 Friday, then slipped 0.3% after hours. The S&P 500 jumped 1.97% and the Nasdaq rose 2.18% as chipmakers rallied, while Amazon fell 5.6% on higher capex guidance. Investors await U.S. jobs data Feb. 11 and CPI Feb. 13. Apple’s next dividend is $0.26 per share, payable Feb. 12.
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