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Falcon 9’s ‘Jellyfish’ Launch & Webb’s Moon-Forming Disk – Space News Roundup (Sept 29–30, 2025)

Key Facts SpaceX & Other Launch Highlights SpaceX capped September with a spectacular twilight launch. On Sept. 28 (local time), a Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg SFB carrying 28 Starlink v2 Mini satellites space.com. Reaching dusk, the rocket’s exhaust expanded into the upper atmosphere and caught the Sun’s rays, creating a brilliant “space jellyfish” effect visible from hundreds of miles. Space.com’s Brett Tingley, camping in Afton Canyon (Mojave), marveled, “I’ve seen plenty of Falcon 9 ‘jellyfish’ online but never in person. It was lit up gorgeously from below by the setting sun…” space.com. The booster landed on the drone ship “Of Course

30 September 2025

“SpaceX Hits 400th Landing, NASA Rallies Volunteers & Webb Snaps New Cosmic Wonders – Top Space News Aug 27–28, 2025”

SpaceX Launches & Reusability Milestones On Aug. 27 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, and its first-stage booster (B1095) successfully returned to SpaceX’s droneship in the Atlantic. Spaceflight reports confirm this landing marks the company’s 400th ocean recovery of a Falcon first stage space.com space.com. The booster had flown once before (May 20, 2025 Starlink launch) and achieved a nearly perfect touchdown. SpaceX emphasized the significance of this reuse: in a live update, a SpaceX executive said the team must “keep challenging ourselves to achieve higher launch rates, greater lift capability, and higher

28 August 2025

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Major Astronomy News in June 2025: Webb’s Exoplanet Discovery, Rubin’s First Images, Space Missions & More

The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged a Saturn-mass exoplanet, TWA 7 b, about 0.3 Jupiter masses at 50 AU from its star, marking Webb’s first direct exoplanet discovery. The missing baryon problem was resolved using 69 fast radio bursts, showing about 76% of ordinary matter lies in hot intergalactic gas, ~15% in halos around galaxies, and ~9% in galaxies. Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein), the largest Oort Cloud comet, showed CO outgassing jets at 16.6 AU with a nucleus about 140 km across, observed by ALMA. Solar Orbiter delivered the first views of the Sun’s south pole from an inclination

28 June 2025

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