Space News Roundup: July 2025 Senior Aerospace Editor’s Exhaustive Analysis Europe’s Meteorological Revolution: MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 Transform Weather and Air Quality Forecasting The European Space Agency (ESA) and Eumetsat have ushered in a new era of meteorology and environmental monitoring with the successful launch of the MTG-S1 satellite and the Sentinel-4 instrument. This dual-payload mission,…
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 Senior Aerospace Editor’s Exhaustive Analysis Vera C. Rubin Observatory: A New Era in Astronomy The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, perched atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, has released its first images, marking a transformative moment for astronomy. Equipped with the world’s largest digital camera, the observatory is poised to become “the…
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Space News Digest: July 1, 2025 Headlines and Highlights The global space sector continues to surge with scientific breakthroughs, new missions, and technological advances. This week’s news covers everything from the Vera Rubin Observatory’s first cosmic survey, the latest on Mars exploration, and the evolving landscape of satellite technology, to the growing intersection of space…
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Space News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and New Frontiers (June 30, 2025) The space sector continues to surge with innovation, discovery, and global impact. From NASA’s satellites revolutionizing our view of Earth and the cosmos, to the growing role of private industry in space access, the past week’s headlines reveal a dynamic, interconnected space ecosystem. This…
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Latest Satellite News The Latest in Satellite Technology, Astronomical Discoveries, Climate Monitoring, and Global Space Policy Table of Contents 1. Satellite Imagery and Geopolitics Iran’s Nuclear Sites Under Scrutiny Russian Military Reserves Exposed 2. Climate and Earth Observation Satellites Japan’s Final H-2A Rocket and GOSAT-GW Italy’s IRIDE Constellation ESA’s Forest Carbon Stock Satellite Muon Space’s…
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Satellite Launches and Deployment 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…
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From Ghost Signals to Orbital Shields In June 2024, Australian astronomers detected a mysterious, intense burst of radio waves originating from near Earth. Initially, they thought they’d found a new pulsar or quasar. Instead, they traced the 30-nanosecond pulse to an unlikely source – NASA’s defunct Relay-2 satellite, launched during the Cold War and dormant…
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Farewell to H-2A: A Final Flight and a New Beginning 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.com space.com. Debuting in 2001, the H-2A achieved a 98% success rate (49 successes in 50 missions) –…
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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…
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The U.S. Space Force has tapped SpaceX for a $81.6 million National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 task order to loft the Weather System Follow-on–Microwave 2 (WSF-M2) satellite and a rideshare stack of small DoD spacecraft (the BLAZE-2 mission) in the first half of fiscal 2027. The award—designated mission USSF-178—marks SpaceX’s third…
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