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Latest Satellite News / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 23:59 CET

Commercial Maxar satellite imagery shows Fordo bomb craters rapidly clearing and heavy engineering near damaged ventilation shafts after Iran’s airstrikes, with General Dan Kane confirming the use of 12 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs described as turning “night into day”. Natanz enrichment complex repairs have begun, with ISW analysts noting restoration work and reports of a destroyed radar installation in Khuzestan province. Japan launched the final H-2A rocket carrying the GOSAT-GW greenhouse gas and water-cycle satellite, retiring the H-2A after 50 missions with a 98% success rate and equipping GOSAT-GW with a microwave radiometer and greenhouse gas sensor. The H-2A retirement

29 June 2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 26.06.2025

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, released its first images mapping global forests using radar to measure the carbon stored in forests. A transient radio signal from NASA’s long-inactive Relay 2 satellite was detected on Earth, likely caused by an electrostatic discharge. The U.S. Space Force’s FY26 budget includes $277 million

26 June 2025

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Stunning Satellite Images Reveal Fordow Nuclear Facility Cratered by U.S. Airstrike

Latest Satellite News & Insights 23.06.2025

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 new batch of Starlink v2 mini satellites, Starlink 10-18, launched June 18, 2025 and will be visible over Ukraine in a 280 km orbit, with each satellite visible for 3–4 minutes and a 30-second interval between appearances, while Starlink operates about 7,000 satellites. NASA’s Perseverance

23 June 2025

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Latest News and Developments in Satellites (2024–2025)

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 day. In October 2024, SpaceX completed the final batch of OneWeb’s first-generation broadband satellites, bringing the constellation to roughly 634 LEO satellites. Amazon’s Project Kuiper launched its first 27 satellites in April 2025 on a ULA Atlas V, starting a planned 3,236-satellite network with a

21 June 2025

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