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September 22, 2025
DRAGON SPACE
Constellations of Power: Smart Dragon-3 and the Geopolitics of China's Space Strategy



Budapest, Hungary (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
On 9 September 2025, a Smart Dragon-3 rocket roared to life off the coast of Rizhao City, in eastern China's Shandong Province, carrying 11 Geely-05 satellites into orbit. Conducted from a maritime platform by the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, the mission marked the seventh successful flight of the Smart Dragon-3 and another step forward in China's quest to fuse commercial innovation with national space ambitions. Behind the technical achievement lies a deeper story: the growing convergence of China' ... read more

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TIME AND SPACE
Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to re ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA awards Blue Origin new lunar mission to deliver VIPER rover in 2027
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
NASA has selected Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, for a new Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order, assigning the company an option to deliver the VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar ... more
SPACEMART
Orbit Over Obsolescence: How Satellite Constellations Are Replacing Cell Towers One Layer at a Time
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
For much of the history of modern telecommunications, networks have been built from the ground up - literally. Fiber buried deep underground, towers rising skyward, microwave links bridging canyons - our entire expectation of coverage has been centered around what we can build and maintain on land. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 21, 2025
SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit via a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. ... more
MARSDAILY
Mars polar vortex traps cold and builds seasonal ozone layer
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
A rare look inside the wintry north polar vortex of Mars has revealed that conditions are far colder than outside its boundary, and that the months of complete darkness allow ozone to accumulate in ... more
IRON AND ICE
Water once persisted on Ryugu parent asteroid long after formation
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
A research team led by the University of Tokyo has discovered that liquid water flowed on the ancient parent body of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than a billion years after its birth. The finding, ... more
SATURN DAILY
Saturn's hidden structures unveiled by James Webb Space Telescope
London, UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
A study using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered striking new details in Saturn's upper atmosphere, revealing features unlike anything previously observed in the Solar System. The r ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gravitino emerges as contender in dark matter search
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Dark matter continues to puzzle physicists, despite decades of experiments and many competing theories. A recent study by researchers introduces a striking alternative candidate: supermassive charged gravitinos. ... more

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MARSDAILY
New Mars research reveals multiple episodes of habitability in Jezero Crater
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
New research using NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered strong evidence that Mars' Jezero Crater experienced multiple episodes of fluid activity - each with conditions that could have supported l ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Sails Through 25th Sun Flyby
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 25th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 15, matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. Parker So ... more
EXO WORLDS
NASA's Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets - planets outside our solar syst ... more
IRON AND ICE
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate. ... more
TECH SPACE
Streamlining Government Records with Social Media Archiving Tools
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Governments today face a growing challenge: managing the immense volume of digital communications and public records generated daily. Traditional recordkeeping methods are no longer sufficient to handle social media posts, website updates, and internal chat communications. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Cosmic glass in Australia reveals traces of massive asteroid strike
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Curtin University scientists have identified evidence of a giant asteroid impact hidden in tiny fragments of natural glass, known as tektites, found only in Australia. Tektites form when a spa ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


TECH SPACE
Top 3 Slingo Games in 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2025
Slingo has become a staple in the iGaming industry thanks to its mix of slots and bingo gameplay. When Slingo was first introduced, it was a niche genre that lacked a significant following, with onl ... more
TECH SPACE
SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal - What to Do
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2025
You hit SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal because Python saw something that looked like a number but broke the rules for how decimal literals must be written. A "decimal literal" is simply a number you type directly in code-like 42, 3.14, or 1_000. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Rare Einstein cross with central image uncovers dark matter halo
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Astronomers have identified an extraordinary Einstein Cross containing a fifth image, pointing to the presence of a massive halo of dark matter. The finding, led by an international team including R ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
AI model predicts harmful solar winds with unprecedented accuracy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi have built an artificial intelligence system capable of predicting solar wind speeds up to four days in advance with far greater accuracy than existing methods. Their fin ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gaia delivers first 3D fly through map of star forming regions in the Milky Way
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Scientists have produced the most detailed three-dimensional map yet of stellar nurseries within our galaxy, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. The new model reveals how massi ... more
SPACEWAR
HawkEye 360 expands signals intelligence network with operational deployment of Cluster 12
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
HawkEye 360 Inc. has announced that its latest trio of satellites, known as Cluster 12, has reached Full Operational Capability (FOC). The satellites, launched June 26 aboard a Rocket Lab Electron r ... more
EXO WORLDS
What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems
East Lansing MI (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as it traveled through our solar system - and how other distant solar system ... more
GPS NEWS
PLD Space wins ESA contract to build hybrid rocket navigation system
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
PLD Space has secured its first Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), marking a major step in the company's expansion into navigation technologies. Un ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Interstellar objects may hold key to accelerating giant planet growth around young stars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Interstellar objects such as 3I/ATLAS, when captured in the planet-forming discs of young stars, may serve as the building blocks of giant planets, offering a solution to a long-standing problem in ... more
TECH SPACE
NASA laser comms demo achieves record data transmission from deep space
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology has completed its two-year demonstration aboard the Psyche spacecraft, surpassing project expectations by reliably transmitting laser-encod ... more
AEROSPACE
Advancing airspace integration for remotely piloted aircraft
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
NASA and partner organizations have completed a new series of flight tests supporting the safe integration of remotely piloted aircraft, including future eVTOL systems, into national airspace. The r ... more
MARSDAILY
Volcanic sulfur gases may have warmed early Mars and supported potential life
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
While the ancient Martian climate is still debated, new research indicates that volcanic emissions of sulfur gases could have created a warmer atmosphere capable of sustaining life. The study, publi ... more
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INTERNET SPACE
Orbital Internet Exchange plans unveiled by DE-CIX
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
DE-CIX, the world's largest operator of Internet Exchanges, is extending its interconnection model beyond Earth. Through its Space-IX program, the company is laying the foundation for the first orbi ... more
ROBO SPACE
European team develops robotic mission for lunar lava cave exploration
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
A European research consortium has unveiled a mission concept designed to explore lava tunnels on the Moon using autonomous robots. These natural formations, which provide shielding from radiation a ... more
ENERGY TECH
Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
London, UK (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Durham University researchers have completed one of the largest verification campaigns on superconducting materials ever undertaken, supporting the success of ITER, the world's largest fusion experi ... more
SPACEMART
Shandong expands satellite launch capacity with record 115 spacecraft deployed
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
Shandong province has advanced its role in China's commercial space industry with the Sept 9 launch of the Smart Dragon-3 Y7 from an offshore platform, its second mission in just one month. The prov ... more
TECH SPACE
SES to test Cailabs optical ground stations for next generation laser links
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
SES will evaluate new optical ground stations from France-based Cailabs to move space data using laser rather than radio signals. The company aims to lift throughput, harden link security, and ease ... more
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