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The Perseid meteor shower remains active on Aug 21–22, offering a handful of meteors per hour under dark skies with the radiant in Perseus and occasional bright fireballs as the Moon is a thin waning crescent near new. The minor Kappa Cygnid meteor shower peaks around Aug 18 and produces about three meteors per hour…
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Satellite Launches & Missions 🚀 Global Space Agency Developments 🌍 (Elsewhere in space agency news: NASA this week opened accreditation for a September event to introduce its 2025 astronaut candidate class and to preview the Artemis II Moon mission nasa.gov nasa.gov. The new astronaut class, selected from over 8,000 applicants, will be unveiled on Sept. 22,…
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<li Rumors for the September 2025 iPhone lineup peg four models—iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and a new 6 mm thick iPhone 17 Air—featuring a 6.6-inch display, ProMotion 120Hz, an in-house 5G modem, and a triple‑sensor 48MP camera on the Pro Max. <li Apple restored Blood Oxygen monitoring on Apple Watch Series 9,…
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OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, with a 256,000-token context window and added GPT-5-mini and GPT-5-nano variants. OpenAI published open-weight models GPT-OSS 120B and GPT-OSS 20B under the Apache 2.0 license on August 5, 2025, to run and fine-tune locally and counter China’s open-source progress. Anthropic expanded its Claude model to a 1,000,000-token context…
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Official SpaceX and Starlink Announcements (August 2025) Launch and Mission Highlights Starship Program: Progress and Setbacks Technical Advancements and New Developments Regulatory and Legal Developments Market and Investment News Expert Analysis and Commentary
Falcon 9’s first flight occurred in June 2010; the two‑stage rocket is 70 m tall, 3.7 m in diameter, uses nine Merlin 1D engines on the first stage and one Merlin Vacuum on the second, delivers about 7,600 kN of thrust at liftoff, carries ~22.8 t to LEO, and its first stage (Block 5) is…
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Major Research Breakthroughs in AI Major research breakthroughs in August underscored AI’s growing capabilities across reasoning, science, and biotechnology. Key advances this month included: Developments in Generative AI (Language, Image & Music) August brought a flurry of developments in generative AI, from powerful new language models to creative tools in image, video, and music generation:…
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<li Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) and Université Paris-Saclay (France) unveiled an organic diradical molecule whose fluorescence hue depends on spin alignment, orange for parallel (triplet) and near-infrared for antiparallel (singlet) spins, in Nature Chemistry with Rituparno Chowdhury as first author. <li A France-based team from C12 Quantum Electronics and École Normale Supérieure…
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