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…
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China’s Zhongxing-9C satellite was launched on June 20, 2025, atop a Long March 3B from Xichang, marking the full localization of Chinese broadcast satellites in the 582nd Long March flight. SpaceX launched the Starlink 10-34 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, deploying 27 Starlink satellites and bringing the active constellation to nearly 8,000, with…
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In 2024 the value of new industrial robot installations reached $16.5 billion, with over 4.28 million robots operating in factories worldwide. Asia accounted for 70% of new robot installations in 2023, with China alone representing 51% of 2023 installations. In 2025 robotics is being transformed by AI, with analytical AI, Physical AI simulators like NVIDIA’s…
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Cobra, QuantumScape’s ceramic separator manufacturing process, was integrated into baseline production in June 2025, delivering ~25× faster heat-treatment and a dramatically smaller equipment footprint. The company’s stock surged from about $4.33 on June 24, 2025 to $7.65 on June 26, 2025, a roughly 47% year-to-date gain by mid-2025. In April 2025, QuantumScape announced a strategic…
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SpaceX’s Starship suffered a further explosion during a static-fire test at Starbase, Texas, as the company has now completed nine Starship test flights with a record launch cadence in 2024–2025. SpaceX’s Axiom-4 mission docked with the International Space Station, marking India’s return to human spaceflight after 41 years as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the…
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Recent News and Highlights (Mid-2025) Table 1 – NVIDIA’s Explosive Revenue Growth (Fiscal year ends late January; FY2025 covers Feb 2024–Jan 2025) Fiscal Year Annual Revenue (USD) YoY Growth FY2023 (ended Jan 2023) $26.97 billion macrotrends.net macrotrends.net +0.2% macrotrends.net (flat) FY2024 (ended Jan 2024) $60.92 billion macrotrends.net macrotrends.net +125.9% macrotrends.net FY2025 (ended Jan 2025) $130.50 billion nvidianews.nvidia.com macrotrends.net +114.2% macrotrends.net NVIDIA’s revenues more…
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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…
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Q1 2025 fintech funding jumped 18% quarter-over-quarter to over $10 billion, the highest level in two years. The U.S. FedNow real-time payment rails had onboarded more than 1,200 banks by early 2025 and processed 1.3 million transactions in Q1 2025, up 43% QoQ. In June 2025, the European Payments Initiative launched a cross-border collaboration to…
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Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted…
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Late 2024, the first FDA-approved CRISPR-based therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy) reached patients, with Vertex reporting $2 million in revenue from this sickle-cell gene-editing therapy in Q3 2024. Prime Medicine’s PM359 autologous CRISPR prime-edited cell therapy for chronic granulomatous disease began a Phase I/II study in 2024, with initial first-in-human data expected in late 2025. Wave…
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