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Weekend Highlights News 20 July 2025 - 21 September 2025

Space Missions, Smartphone Frenzy & Cyber Chaos: Tech’s Wild Weekend (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Space Missions, Smartphone Frenzy & Cyber Chaos: Tech’s Wild Weekend (Sept 20–21, 2025)

Key Facts Apple iPhone 17 Demand Surges in Russia Russian tech retailers rolled out Apple’s iPhone 17 in Moscow on Saturday (ahead of the official sales launch), drawing surprisingly strong consumer demand. Major reseller Restore: reported a 66% jump in pre-orders compared to the last iPhone release reuters.com reuters.com. “This year we have 66% more preorders than last year,” confirmed Lyudmila Semushina, PR director for the retail group, who noted a “huge fan base that will never exchange iPhone for anything else” despite high prices reuters.com. Shoppers in Moscow cited the upgraded cameras and features as compelling reasons to upgrade.
21 September 2025
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Space Weekend Thrills: Starship’s Historic Flight, Secret Spaceplane Soars & Cosmic Breakthroughs

Space Weekend Thrills: Starship’s Historic Flight, Secret Spaceplane Soars & Cosmic Breakthroughs

Key Facts Full Report SpaceX Soars: Starship’s Triumph and More Starship’s First Orbital Success: SpaceX’s Starship finally broke its streak of test failures in spectacular fashion. On Aug. 26, the 403-foot reusable rocket system completed its tenth test flight and achieved several firsts. After launching from Starbase, Texas, the Starship upper stage reached space and successfully deployed payloads – ejecting 8 dummy Starlink satellites about 30 minutes into flight from its innovative internal dispenser reuters.com. This marked the first-ever satellite deployment by Starship, turning the page on a series of early-flight mishaps that had plagued the program. The mission then
31 August 2025
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Breakthroughs, Blunders, and the Bizarre: The Biggest Science Stories You Missed This Weekend

Breakthroughs, Blunders, and the Bizarre: The Biggest Science Stories You Missed This Weekend

Space Climate & Environment Health & Medicine Technology & AI OpenAI Unleashes GPT-5: A major leap in artificial intelligence made headlines as OpenAI officially released GPT-5, the newest version of the AI model behind ChatGPT. Launched on Thursday and rolled out globally, GPT-5 is being touted as a significant upgrade in reasoning and expertise. The model has 700 million+ users via ChatGPT, and aims directly at business and professional applications. OpenAI says GPT-5 can “instantaneously” generate working software code, solve advanced math problems, and provide expert-level answers on a wide range of subjects – a notable jump toward AI that
10 August 2025
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Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Sky Spectacle (Aug 8–9, 2025): Meteor Showers, a Full Moon, Planetary Dance & Aurora Alerts

Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Sky Spectacle (Aug 8–9, 2025): Meteor Showers, a Full Moon, Planetary Dance & Aurora Alerts

The Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12–13, 2025, delivering 60–90 meteors per hour under dark skies, though a bright 84% full Moon may limit visibility to about 15 meteors per hour. The Eta Eridanid meteor shower peaks in the pre-dawn hours of August 8, 2025, at about 3 meteors per hour and appears to emanate from the Eridanus constellation. The Southern Delta Aquariids remain active through late July into August, producing only a few meteors per hour. The Full Sturgeon Moon reaches peak illumination on August 9, 2025, turning full at 3:55 a.m. EDT and rising in the southeast around
8 August 2025
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Blast-Off Breakthroughs: Fusion Lasers, Space Feats & Tech Triumphs in Weekend Roundup (July 19–20, 2025)

Blast-Off Breakthroughs: Fusion Lasers, Space Feats & Tech Triumphs in Weekend Roundup (July 19–20, 2025)

SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 24 new Starlink satellites on July 18 from California, with the booster landing for the 14th time on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, expanding the constellation to nearly 8,000 active satellites. Raytheon delivered the OCX GPS control software to the U.S. Space Force, upgrading the Global Positioning System backbone to improve precision and security for military and civilian users. Senate appropriators voted to restore funding for dozens of NASA Earth science and space exploration missions in the 2026 budget, shielding projects deemed critical. The weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission
20 July 2025
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