Key 2025 Market Highlights Residential Market Overview: Prices, Rents and Affordability After a brief downturn, the residential property market rebounded strongly through 2025. August marked the seventh consecutive month of home price gains, with values rising +0.7% nationally for the month abc.net.au. Prices are now up ~4% year-on-year, and the median Australian dwelling costs about…
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SpaceX conducted back-to-back Falcon 9 Starlink launches within 24 hours: July 26 from Cape Canaveral with 28 satellites and July 27 from California with 24 satellites, pushing the active Starlink constellation to 8,032. Crew-11 astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov are set to launch on July 31 aboard Dragon Endeavour to…
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CASA regulates drones under Part 101, applying national rules across Australia with uniform standards, while state or local bylaws can add restrictions. Recreational drone rules include a maximum altitude of 120 meters, a 30-meter minimum distance from people, no flying over crowds, daylight and visual line-of-sight operations, and the requirement to operate only one drone…
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As of mid-2023, around 12.3 million premises were ready to connect to the NBN, and by early 2025 about 8.62 million homes and businesses were actively connected to NBN-based plans. The NBN uses a multi-technology mix—FTTP, FTTN, FTTC, HFC, Fixed Wireless, and Satellite—and is legally required to offer at least 25 Mbps download speeds to…
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Latest Rumors: DJI’s Full-Frame Camera Incoming? The photography world is buzzing with talk that DJI – best known for drones – may launch a full-frame mirrorless camera in mid-September 2025. Multiple rumor outlets report that DJI could unveil the camera on September 15, 2025, marking the company’s first foray into a traditional interchangeable-lens camera system digitalcameraworld.com. According to Digital…
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Key Facts Meet the LG MoodUP: A Fridge That Matches Your Mood LG’s MoodUP fridge freezer is unlike any refrigerator you’ve seen – it’s essentially a massive mood lamp for your kitchen. This futuristic appliance features LED panels on its doors that can glow in an array of colors. With a few taps in the…
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Key Facts Historical Development of Japan’s Space Program Japan’s journey in space began in the 1950s and has grown from university research rockets to a major national endeavor. In 1955, Professor Hideo Itokawa’s team launched the first pencil rocket as a rudimentary experiment en.wikipedia.org. By the 1960s, Japan developed larger sounding rockets (the Kappa and…
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Key Facts Overview: A Nation Still Largely Offline Papua New Guinea (PNG) faces an uphill battle in bringing internet access to its population, which is dispersed across difficult terrain and hundreds of islands. General internet penetration remains very low – only about 24.1% of the population were internet users at the start of 2025 datareportal.com…
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The Full Corn Moon & Upcoming “Blood Moon” Eclipse This weekend’s moon will be a brilliant full Corn Moon, traditionally named for the harvest season starwalk.space. It rises just after sunset and floods the night with silver light – so bright it may outshine fainter stars and meteors. Notably, the Moon will appear near golden…
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Government & Private Spaceflight Developments NASA & SpaceX – New Boosts and Milestones: In a notable first for ISS operations, SpaceX’s CRS-33 Dragon cargo ship successfully executed a reboost of the International Space Station on Sept. 3 nasa.gov. Firing new thrusters in its trunk for over five minutes, the uncrewed Dragon raised the ISS orbit by…
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