Rocket Launch Triumphs: New Heavy-Lifters and Constellation Boosts Lunar Missions & Spaceflight Milestones: Moon Race Intensifies Next-Gen Satellite Tech & Services: Innovation in Orbit Space Policy & International Developments: Safety, Funding, and Collaboration Sources: Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com; Space.com space.com space.com; Space & Defense spaceanddefense.io; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com; Space.com (B. Tingley) space.com space.com; Space.com…
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The Narzo 70x leads display quality with a 6.72-inch IPS LCD, 1080×2400 resolution, 120Hz refresh, and up to 950 nits peak brightness. All three budget phones use a 5000mAh battery, but charging speeds differ: Galaxy A05 supports 25W fast charging, Redmi 13C supports 18W (with a 10W charger in the box), and Narzo 70x supports…
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As of early 2025, Sri Lanka has 29.3 million mobile subscriptions, exceeding its population. SLT’s national fiber backbone spans about 45,000 km. By mid-2022, SLT had infrastructure for 1 million fiber connections, with about 500,000 households connected, and aimed to reach 2 million by end-2023. 4G LTE coverage is essentially 100% of the population as…
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Crew-10, comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov, is targeting undocking on Aug 8, 2025, with splashdown off the California coast on Aug 9, 2025, marking the first crewed California splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program after a five-month science mission. China completed the first full-scale test…
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September 21, 2025 – Partial Solar Eclipse visible mainly from the Southern Hemisphere, with up to 80% Sun obscured over the South Pacific, including Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, and parts of Antarctica. February 17, 2026 – Annular “ring of fire” over Antarctica, with annularity lasting about 2 minutes at maximum, while a partial eclipse will…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 launched from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 1, 2025 at 11:43 a.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov to the International Space Station. Dragon Endeavour, on its record sixth flight, is set to dock at the ISS early Aug. 2 for a…
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By 2025 Starlink had surpassed 8,000 satellites launched and served over 5 million users in 125+ countries, operating at about 550 km altitude with speeds of 50–200 Mbps and latencies of 20–40 ms. Ama zon’s Project Kuiper began launching its 3,236-satellite Ka-band LEO network, with its first 27 satellites launched in April 2025 on an…
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On July 31, 2025, NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the ISS was scrubbed due to weather, with liftoff canceled just over a minute before launch and the crew—Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov—set to retry on Aug. 1 at 11:43 a.m. ET. SpaceX Falcon 9 booster B1094 landed at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone…
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By December 2019, fiber connections in Georgia (country) totaled 758,680, with DSL at 41,345 and FTTH accounting for over 82% of fixed broadband. Georgia’s national backbone lands at the Black Sea port of Poti and runs along rail lines to Tbilisi, interconnecting Armenia and Azerbaijan. Starlink became available in Georgia in November 2023 after mid-2022…
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Delta Aquariids peak on the nights of July 30–31 with rates up to 15–20 meteors per hour in the Southern Hemisphere and fewer than 10 per hour from mid-northern latitudes, under a slender 25–30% lit Moon that sets early. Alpha Capricornids peak around July 30–31, averaging 2–5 meteors per hour, but delivering slow, bright fireballs…
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