Dark Skies & Meteor Showers: Perseid Fade, Aurigid Fireballs? Late August 2025 offers wonderfully dark skies thanks to the timing of the Moon. August 23 marked a rare third new moon in a season (sometimes called a “Black Moon”), leaving nights around Aug 27–30 exceptionally dark ts2.tech. By Aug 29–30 the Moon is only 6–7…
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Key Facts Launches & Spaceflight SpaceX’s Record-Breakers: SpaceX achieved back-to-back milestones with its Starlink launches. In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 28, a Falcon 9 rocket (booster B1067) blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying 28 Starlink satellites – notably the booster’s 30th launch and landing, a new reuse record space.com mynews13.com. “Falcon 9’s first…
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Dark “Black Moon” Nights & Shooting Stars Late August 2025 brings unusually dark skies thanks to a rare Black Moon. The new Moon on Aug. 23 was the third new Moon in a season of four space.com – a configuration that leaves the next days moonless. By Aug 27–28 the slim crescent Moon is just a…
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Moonless “Black Moon” Nights & Meteor Sightings Late August 2025 offers especially dark nights for skywatchers. The new moon on August 23 was the third new moon in a season with four (an event sometimes nicknamed a “Black Moon”) space.com. This means no bright moonlight to outshine the stars on August 27–28. In fact, the…
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Key Facts SpaceX’s Starship Soars on 10th Test Flight SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket achieved a long-awaited breakthrough on Aug. 26, completing its first fully successful test flight after several explosive failures earlier in the program reuters.com spacepolicyonline.com. The 400-foot-tall Starship (comprising the Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage) lifted off from Boca Chica, Texas at 7:30 p.m.…
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The Perseid meteor shower ran July 17–August 23, 2025, but its peak was washed out by the nearly full Sturgeon Moon, which NASA estimated reduced meteors by about 75%. Under dark skies, the Perseids would normally yield 40–50 meteors per hour, but this year observers faced about 10–20 per hour or fewer due to moonlight.…
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Rocket Launches and Mission Highlights Breakthrough Scientific Discoveries and Tech Advances Policy and Regulatory Developments Commercial and Industry News Sources: Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com; Space.com space.com space.com space.com space.com; NASA/Wallops abc11.com abc11.com; ISRO isro.gov.in isro.gov.in; Copernical/SpaceNews copernical.com copernical.com; The Moscow Times themoscowtimes.com; EurekAlert (AURA/NSO) eurekalert.org eurekalert.org; RTL Today Luxembourg today.rtl.lu today.rtl.lu.
A rare Black Moon occurred on August 23, 2025, as Summer 2025 had four new moons (June 25, July 23, Aug 23, Sept 21), yielding ultra-dark skies for Aug 24–26. Perseid meteors, peaking Aug 12–13 at up to ~100 per hour under ideal dark skies, were heavily washed out by an 84%-full Moon, leaving observed…
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Rocket Launches and Mission Highlights Space Industry and Global Policy Developments Scientific Breakthroughs and Space Research Each of these stories from August 23–24, 2025 showcases the remarkable breadth of space news in just a 48-hour window – from record-setting launches and novel spacecraft capabilities, to industry shake-ups and policy shifts, to cosmic discoveries rewriting textbooks.…
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The Black Moon occurs when the new moon reaches Aug 23 at 06:06 UTC, making it the third of four summer 2025 new moons (June 25, July 23, Aug 23, Sept 21) and rendering a moonless sky. The Perseid meteor shower, which peaked in mid-August with up to about 100 meteors per hour under ideal…
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