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India’s “Bahubali” Rocket to Launch 4.4-Ton Heaviest-Ever Military Satellite – Countdown to Nov 2 Blastoff

India’s “Bahubali” Rocket to Launch 4.4-Ton Heaviest-Ever Military Satellite – Countdown to Nov 2 Blastoff

Mission Overview On Nov 2 evening, ISRO will attempt a landmark mission by launching CMS-03 – also known as GSAT-7R – atop its powerful LVM3-M5 launcher. The satellite, dedicated to the Indian Navy, aims to bolster India’s maritime communications and domain awareness. At liftoff, the 43.5 m-tall “Bahubali” rocket will carry CMS-03 into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) (about 36,000 km high), from which the spacecraft will later circularize to geostationary orbit. Weighing roughly 9,700 lbs (4,400 kg), CMS-03 will become the heaviest communications satellite launched by an Indian rocket space.com moneycontrol.com. ISRO itself calls this a record: it will
2 November 2025
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Hungarian Astronaut Builds Super-Muscles with Futuristic EMSCULPT NEO Device

Hungarian Astronaut Builds Super-Muscles with Futuristic EMSCULPT NEO Device

Inside the Space-Ready Workout Astronauts face rapid muscle and bone loss in zero gravity, so Hungary’s new space traveler Kapu built an astronaut-specific fitness program. As BTL’s press release explains, EMSCULPT NEO was added to Kapu’s intensive training to counteract the muscle atrophy of orbit prnewswire.com. “Studies show astronauts lose up to 30% of muscle mass in orbit,” notes Dr. Nóra Sydó of Budapest’s Semmelweis University, who led Kapu’s training prnewswire.com. Dr. Sydó – also doctor to Hungary’s Olympic swim team – reports that with EMSCULPT NEO, medical tests showed “muscle hypertrophy, improved body composition and increased cardiopulmonary fitness” beyond
22 October 2025
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AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) Stock Skyrockets on Verizon Deal – Is Satellite-to-Phone Broadband the Next Big Thing?

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (ASTS) – Key Facts

Company Overview AST SpaceMobile (formerly AST & Science) is an American satellite communications company founded by Abel Avellan, who had previously sold his last venture (Emerging Markets Communications) for $550 M in 2016 en.wikipedia.org. The company’s mission is to eliminate terrestrial coverage gaps by deploying the first space-based cellular broadband network accessible by ordinary smartphones en.wikipedia.org. In practice, AST builds very large low-orbit satellites (BlueBirds) that unfold into massive antenna arrays. These satellites operate on standard cellular bands (850 MHz, L‑band, S‑band, etc.) and connect directly to unmodified 4G/5G phones. In contrast to legacy satellite-to-phone services (e.g. Iridium/Lynk text/SOS), AST aims to
14 October 2025
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AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

AST SpaceMobile Soars on Satellite Breakthrough: What’s Behind $ASTS’s 16% Rally?

Stock Performance (Oct 1–3, 2025) ASTS has been on a tear. On Oct 1, 2025 the stock surged 16.0% to close at $56.94 (from $49.08 two days prior) stockanalysis.com. On Oct 2, 2025, it again rallied 16.2%, closing at $66.16 stockanalysis.com. These gains came on heavy volume (~30.0 million shares traded on Oct 2) stockanalysis.com stockanalysis.com, far above its three-month average, reflecting strong buyer interest. As of early trading on Oct 3, ASTS was around $65–66 stockanalysis.com. The stock’s market capitalization is roughly $20–24 billion (depending on the share count used) stockanalysis.com reuters.com. For context, ASTS has more than tripled
3 October 2025
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Jeff Bezos’ Free-Flying Space Camera Wows the World – With a Mysterious Spinning Twist

Jeff Bezos’ Free-Flying Space Camera Wows the World – With a Mysterious Spinning Twist

Bezos Unveils a Futuristic Free-Flying Space Camera A frame from Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-35 flight footage, captured by the free-flying 360° camera after it detached in space. The camera’s perspective shows the booster and capsule above Earth’s horizon, offering a dramatic “third-person” view of the rocket. Jeff Bezos took to social media to reveal an “amazing” free-flying space camera that was deployed during Blue Origin’s latest suborbital flight. The camera was released on the New Shepard NS-35 mission (launched September 18, 2025 from West Texas) to independently float alongside the rocket and capsule techeblog.com. In the short clip Bezos
22 September 2025
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NASA’s “Astronaut Avatars” – Tiny Organ Chips Poised to Protect Artemis II Crew’s Health

NASA’s “Astronaut Avatars” – Tiny Organ Chips Poised to Protect Artemis II Crew’s Health

What Are NASA’s “Avatars for Astronaut Health”? NASA’s “Avatars for Astronaut Health” is a bold initiative to send small living models of astronauts’ organs into deep space. These “avatars” aren’t robots or holograms – they are organ-on-a-chip devices containing real human cells, designed to mimic the functions of human tissues science.nasa.gov. For Artemis II, NASA will load chips with cells donated by the four crew members themselves, essentially creating miniaturized versions of their organ tissue that can be studied in parallel with the crew science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov. The goal is to see how these cells respond to deep space conditions – such
16 September 2025
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Starlink Blitz, Spy Sat Scare & Mission Milestones: Space News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Starlink Blitz, Spy Sat Scare & Mission Milestones: Space News Roundup (Sept 4–5, 2025)

Government & Private Spaceflight Developments NASA & SpaceX – New Boosts and Milestones: In a notable first for ISS operations, SpaceX’s CRS-33 Dragon cargo ship successfully executed a reboost of the International Space Station on Sept. 3 nasa.gov. Firing new thrusters in its trunk for over five minutes, the uncrewed Dragon raised the ISS orbit by about a mile – inaugurating a capability that will be used periodically through fall 2025 to help maintain the station’s altitude nasa.gov nasa.gov. This test comes as NASA seeks alternatives to rely less on Russia’s Progress vehicles for station-keeping. Meanwhile, SpaceX is poised for a
5 September 2025
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See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

Google Earth was downloaded over one billion times in its first six years. Google Earth’s Time Machine covers 1984 to 2022 in a 4D interactive map built from millions of satellite photos. The Landsat program began in 1972 and offers a 50+ year global land-surface data record, with Landsat 8 and 9 providing 30-meter resolution imagery. Sentinel-2A and 2B image the entire Earth’s land every 5 days at 10-meter resolution (20 meters for some infrared bands). Maxar’s WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 offer 30-centimeter imagery, and the upcoming WorldView Legion aims for up to 15 revisits per day at 30 cm. Planet
28 July 2025
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Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX workstation processor launched at $11,699 and features 96 cores, 192 threads, a Zen 5 design, and up to 5.4GHz, claiming the title of the world’s fastest CPU. Samsung’s 61.44 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, the largest enterprise drive to date, went on sale for $5,593 (~$0.09/GB) and delivers 14.2 GB/s read and 2.1 GB/s write speeds using QLC flash. The FOSSiBOT F107 Pro rugged phone adds “Starlight Night Vision” capable of color photography at 0.0005 lux, powered by a 28,000 mAh battery and MIL-STD-810H durability. A GoPro Max 2 prototype leaked showing a 360° camera with
28 July 2025
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Starlink Doubleheader, NASA Upheaval & Space Race Showdowns – Global Space News Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

Starlink Doubleheader, NASA Upheaval & Space Race Showdowns – Global Space News Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

SpaceX launched back-to-back Falcon 9 missions for Starlink within 24 hours: on July 26 at 5:01 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites and on July 27 at 12:31 a.m. EDT from Vandenberg with 24 Starlinks, with first-stage boosters landing on droneships on their 22nd and 19th flights respectively and the company pushing its 2025 launch total to 95 flights and the Starlink fleet above 8,000 satellites. Europe’s Vega-C VV27 launched July 25 at 10:03 p.m. ET from Kourou carrying five Earth-observation satellites including MicroCarb (180 kg, 1 ppm CO2 accuracy) and four CO3D satellites built by Airbus
27 July 2025
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Satellite Internet Revolution: How SpaceX Starlink and Rivals Are Connecting the World from Space (2025–2030 Outlook)

Satellite Internet Revolution: How SpaceX Starlink and Rivals Are Connecting the World from Space (2025–2030 Outlook)

As of mid-2025, SpaceX Starlink has deployed over 7,600 satellites—about 65% of all active satellites—reaching 4+ million subscribers by late 2024 and 5+ million by mid-2025 across more than 125 countries. Starlink offers 50–200+ Mbps speeds with 20–40 ms latency, using a flat phased-array user terminal nicknamed “Dishy McFlatface” and laser-linked satellites to extend polar and ocean coverage. OneWeb, now called Eutelsat OneWeb after a 2023 merger, operates roughly 634 satellites as of mid-2023 and completed its Gen-1 network in 2023, with Gen-2 satellites (about 100) on order for 2026. Amazon’s Project Kuiper plans 3,236 satellites, had 78 production satellites
16 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 23:59 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 5th, 23:59 CET

On July 5, 2025, the unpiloted Progress 92 spacecraft docked with the ISS Poisk module, delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to Expedition 73 and remaining docked for six months before disposal. NASA’s New Horizons, now 9.1 billion kilometers from Earth, demonstrated the first interstellar navigation test using stellar parallax, achieving about 40 million kilometers of position uncertainty. Astronomers detected interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), the third such object observed, currently between the asteroid belt and Jupiter at about 130,000 mph with live online observations. NWA 16788, the largest Martian meteorite at 24.5 kilograms and representing 6.5%
5 July 2025
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