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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 H-2A completed its 50th and final launch on June 28, 2025, carrying the GOSAT-GW climate-monitoring satellite, after a 49-for-50 success rate (98%). Over its service, H-2A lofted payloads including SELENE (Kaguya), Akatsuki, Hayabusa 2, and the Emirates Mars Mission. H3, Japan’s next-generation launcher, is designed to be more cost-effective and flexible, standing about 57–63 meters tall with a 5.2-meter first-stage core and up to 6.5 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit. The H3 uses LE-9 engines in configurations of two or three with an expander-bleed cycle, the first main-stage application of this cycle, delivering about 1,470 kN thrust per
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 launched on June 12, 2025 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking the UK’s first in-space manufacturing mission. The Welsh-built ForgeStar-1 is a fully retrievable, reusable space factory designed to survive re-entry and be reused for multiple missions. The Pridwen deployable heat shield protects ForgeStar-1 during atmospheric re-entry and will be demonstrated as a key proof-of-concept. On-Orbit Steering and the Aether software provide real-time tracking and predictive mapping to guide the satellite’s re-entry into a controlled corridor. ForgeStar-1 functions as an autonomous Microgravity Foundry, performing crystal growth and thin-film deposition without human operators. The mission
29 June 2025
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Blockchain Technology Comprehensive Report 2025: Background, Evolution, Trends & Future Outlook (26th of June 2025).

Blockchain Technology Comprehensive Report 2025: Background, Evolution, Trends & Future Outlook (26th of June 2025).

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in January 2009 Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined. The 2016 DAO hack on Ethereum triggered a hard fork. Vitalik Buterin proposed Ethereum in 2013, and the Ethereum Frontier network went live in July 2015, introducing smart contracts. By 2019, Walmart deployed a food traceability system using IBM Food Trust built on Hyperledger Fabric. Amazon launched Amazon Managed Blockchain on AWS in 2019. Ethereum’s Merge in 2022 switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, reducing energy use by about 99.95%. Christie’s sold a digital NFT artwork for $69 million in 2021, highlighting mainstream NFT
28 June 2025
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Major Tech Developments in June 2025 and H2 2025 Outlook

Major Tech Developments in June 2025 and H2 2025 Outlook

At WWDC 2025, Apple opened on-device AI—a ~3-billion-parameter LLM—to third-party developers. Microsoft reported 33% year-over-year Azure growth in Q1 2025 and noted roughly 30% of its code is AI-authored. Google rolled out the Search Generative Experience with AI Mode and launched the AI Ultra Plan at $250 per month in June 2025. OpenAI reached a $10 billion annual revenue run-rate by June 2025 and began using Google’s TPUs alongside Azure. Nvidia reported Q1 fiscal 2026 revenue of $44.1 billion, up 69% year over year, with data-center sales of $39 billion and began full-scale production of Blackwell NVL72 chips in mid-2025.
28 June 2025
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AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

Meta hired Trapit Bansal, a key OpenAI researcher, and acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI valued at nearly $15 billion, while securing a 1.1 GW nuclear power supply for AI data centers starting in 2027. Amazon’s stock has nearly doubled in the past three years as AWS commands about 30% of the global cloud market, fueling AI‑driven growth across its businesses. Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, upgrading its AI‑driven support platform with a live‑monitoring command center and an Agent Exchange marketplace of over 100 pre‑built automations, boosting AI adoption 233% in six months. Perplexity Labs added features turning its AI
28 June 2025
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AI News Today June 28th, 2025: MrBeast Axes AI Thumbnail Tool, Denmark’s Deepfake Law, AI Shopkeeper Fails, and More

AI News Today June 28th, 2025: MrBeast Axes AI Thumbnail Tool, Denmark’s Deepfake Law, AI Shopkeeper Fails, and More

MrBeast removed the $80/month AI thumbnail generator on Viewstats after backlash and replaced it with a directory of real thumbnail artists, while he has 385+ million subscribers. Denmark unveiled legislation to grant individuals copyright over their face and voice, with about 90% of MPs backing the bill and it heading to Parliament in autumn. AI-focused tokens slumped about 29% in the last 30 days, with TAO down ~29%, NEAR down ~27%, FET down ~26%, RNDR down ~33%, even as Nvidia stock hit record highs. Anthropic’s Claude ran a month-long “Project Vend” in its San Francisco office, managing a snack shop,
28 June 2025
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Tesla Inc. – Mid-2025 Comprehensive Company Report (June 28th, 2025)

Tesla Inc. – Mid-2025 Comprehensive Company Report (June 28th, 2025)

In Q1 2025, Tesla posted net income of about $0.4 billion, produced roughly 362,600 vehicles and delivered about 336,700, with volume weakness tied to a refreshed Model Y rollout across four plants. For full-year 2024, Tesla reported revenue of $97.7 billion and net income of $7.1 billion, with automotive gross margins falling to around 15% after peaking above 30% in 2021–2022. By mid-2025, Tesla’s stock was down about 19% year-to-date after peaking near $488 in December 2024, amid concerns over demand and leadership turnover. The Redwood mass-market platform aims to start production by mid-2025 at Gigafactory Texas, with first output
28 June 2025
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June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

June 2025 AI News Roundup: Breakthroughs, Surprises, and Global Developments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5 is expected to launch in summer 2025 and is reportedly materially better than GPT-4. Midjourney unveiled its first text-to-video system, Model V1, producing 16-second videos with advanced motion and style control in June 2025. China’s MiniMax released the M1 large model as an open-source Apache 2.0-licensed challenger claiming cutting-edge performance with far less computing power. Meta’s next-generation LLaMA 4 Behemoth was delayed to late 2025 due to performance issues. Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a vision-language-action model that runs entirely on robots with on-board processing and can be fine-tuned with as few as
28 June 2025
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Plan-S Expands Connecta Constellation to 17 Satellites, Boosting Gigabit Industrial IoT and Cutting Latency

Plan-S Expands Connecta Constellation to 17 Satellites, Boosting Gigabit Industrial IoT and Cutting Latency

The four new Connecta satellites named Connecta IoT-9, IoT-10, IoT-11, and IoT-12 were launched in June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Transporter-14 rideshare. The launch brings Plan-S’s Connecta constellation to 17 satellites in orbit, with 12 commercially active satellites and the remainder as test/demo units. The new satellites enable gigabit-level data access across the Connecta network, with aggregate throughput on the order of gigabits per second (Gbps). <li Plan-S reports a 40% increase in data collection frequency due to the new satellites, reducing data latency and moving toward near real-time global data collection. The Connecta system uses a
28 June 2025
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Xona’s Pulsar Constellation Secures $92M to Revolutionize GPS with Centimeter-Accurate, Unhackable Navigation

Xona’s Pulsar Constellation Secures $92M to Revolutionize GPS with Centimeter-Accurate, Unhackable Navigation

Xona’s Pulsar constellation plans to deploy 250–300 small LEO satellites at about 326 miles (525 km) altitude to deliver centimeter-level PNT. Pulsar signals are encrypted and authenticated, with satellites orbiting ~40× closer to Earth than GPS to produce about 100× stronger received signals. A ‘cloud architecture for atomic clocks’ coordinates timing from ground stations instead of placing ultra-expensive clocks on every satellite, delivering nanosecond-level timing. Most existing GPS chipsets can access Pulsar signals with a firmware update, enabling rapid, near-term adoption. The system targets GPS vulnerability by defending against jamming and spoofing, branding Pulsar as an unhackable alternative. In June
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 the Coverage Above and Beyond partnership to end mobile dead zones by connecting standard smartphones to Starlink satellites, branded as T-Satellite with Starlink, aiming to cover roughly 500,000 square miles of the U.S. Starlink Gen2 satellites feature Direct to Cell antenna arrays that enable direct-to-device connectivity with unmodified 4G/5G smartphones, effectively emulating a space-based cell tower. The first batch of six direct-to-cell capable Starlink satellites was launched in January 2024 on a Falcon 9 rocket. In March 2024 the FCC issued rules for non-terrestrial networks and, in November 2024, granted SpaceX conditional approval
28 June 2025
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SpaceX: Mid-2025 Comprehensive Report (June 27th, 2025)

SpaceX: Mid-2025 Comprehensive Report (June 27th, 2025)

Summary of Recent Developments (Mid-2025) SpaceX’s Starship vehicle lifting off on its ninth test flight from Starbase, Texas in May 2025. Starship is the company’s next-generation, fully-reusable rocket system under development. In summary, by mid-2025 SpaceX is breaking launch records, advancing Starship’s development amid regulatory hurdles, expanding its Starlink network, and securing a growing share of civil and commercial space contracts. The following sections provide an in-depth analysis of the company’s history, technology, strategy, competition, and outlook. Company Background and History Founding and Vision: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the audacious
27 June 2025
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