Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree panorama of boxwork ridges at Gale Crater using 291 Mastcam images. China’s Tianwen-3 Mars Sample…
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured images of exoplanet TWA 7b, a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the young star TWA 7, using high-contrast imaging and a coronagraph. Israeli airstrikes on western Iran targeted military satellites, air defense systems, and missile infrastructure, using around 20 fighter jets and over 30 munitions. ESA’s Biomass satellite, launched in April,…
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EarthDaily Analytics launched its first Earth observation satellite, initiating a next-generation ten-satellite constellation to deliver daily AI-ready global imagery and analytics, with the full constellation expected to be operational next year. SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 booster (B1080) in its 20th flight, with the first stage successfully recovered,…
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On June 23, 2025, ULA’s Atlas V launched 27 Amazon Project Kuiper satellites, bringing the constellation to 54 in Low-Earth Orbit and targeting a 3,232-satellite network. Spain’s INFOCA expanded wildfire response by integrating SPOT satellite devices with Globalstar and Technosylva wildfire modelling for real-time location tracking, with a webinar scheduled for June 30, 2025. A…
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In the first four months of 2025, over 1,200 satellites were launched, roughly a 50% increase from the same period in 2024. SpaceX’s Starlink had more than 7,000 small satellites in orbit by late 2024, with 573 Starlinks launched in Q1 2025 and about 9,000 laser inter-satellite links moving some 42 petabytes of data per…
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