Key Facts Government & Agency Developments NASA, ISS and International Partners NASA kept busy on multiple fronts. On Sept. 5, NASA announced it will broadcast the launch and docking of Roscosmos’s Progress 93 cargo ship next week, as the Russian freighter carries ~3 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station nasa.gov. This…
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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…
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Key Facts Satellite Launch Highlights Starlink Launch Surge: SpaceX punctuated the end of August with a sunrise Falcon 9 launch on Aug. 31, carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit spaceflightnow.com. Liftoff occurred at 7:49 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40, and about 8½ minutes later the veteran booster (B1077, now with 23 flights) nailed…
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Key Facts Summary Starlink’s Global Surge and the Satellite Internet Race Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite internet continues its explosive growth, dramatically expanding global internet access. SpaceX Starlink, the largest LEO constellation, hit a new milestone in late August 2025 with over 7 million active subscribers worldwide spaceflightnow.com – up from 4 million a year prior – served by…
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Starship Flight 10, a 400-foot-tall Starship/Super Heavy stack, is scheduled to liftoff Aug. 24 at 7:30 p.m. EDT from SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its 10th flight test, with a Super Heavy booster equipped with 33 Raptor engines. After liftoff, the Super Heavy booster will detach and perform a controlled splashdown in the…
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Starlink Standard Kit includes a 23.4″ x 15.1″ motorized dish (~6.4 lb) with IP67 weather sealing, a 49 ft cable to a Wi‑Fi 6 router, and delivers up to about 220 Mbps down with 20–50 ms latency on Roam plans, priced around $599 for the kit and $150/mo unlimited Roam or $50/mo Roam 50GB. Starlink…
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As of August 2025, there are over 8,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, with about 8,075 currently functioning and accounting for roughly 65% of all active satellites. Starlink satellites orbit at roughly 550 km (340 miles) altitude and are launched in batches of 50+ on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, with each satellite weighing 260–800 kg depending…
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On Aug. 14, 2025, SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 missions 12 hours apart, first from Vandenberg with 24 Starlink satellites and then from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites, with deployments confirmed and boosters recovered at sea (one on its 10th flight). These back-to-back flights brought SpaceX’s 2025 Falcon 9 count to 99 and pushed…
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Paraguay had about 78% of its population online in 2025, below the Latin American average of about 85%, with urban usage over 80% and rural usage around 64%. 4G LTE networks now cover about 97% of the population, while commercial 5G had not launched as of 2023, with a 2024–2025 auction planned to reach 50%…
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NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 with nine Merlin engines from Kennedy Space Center at 11:43 a.m. EDT on August 1, 2025, on the Crew Dragon Endeavour for NASA’s Crew-11 mission. The Crew-11 Dragon capsule separated from the Falcon 9’s second stage less than 10…
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