Live demo shows reliable satellite-5G connectivity on the move – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00
UniVirtua’s dashAlpha platform can create a single high-bandwidth and secure connection, resilient to network failures. System can also monitor and automatically bond connections based on speed, stability and availability, enabling continuous content streaming when the network changes. The platform could be used to connect vehicles essential to disaster relief as well as self-driving cars.
Forrester’s Digest: Project Kuiper readies for Sept 25 launch – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00
The KA-03 launch is slated for September 25th from Cape Canaveral. The mission will send another 27 Kuiper satellites into low Earth orbit. Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Kuiper says it expects to begin delivering service to customers in late 2025.
SpaceX launches 28 smallsats of Starlink Group 10-22 early Wednesday from the Cape – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00
Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the 14th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31, Astranis: From One to Many, IM-2, Commercial GTO-1, and now eight Starlink missions. According to weather officials, there’s a 70% chance of favorable weather conditions at the time of the launch.
Ramses: ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00
Ramses will rendezvous with the asteroid 99942 Apophis and accompany it through its safe but exceptionally close flyby of Earth in 2029. Researchers will study the asteroid as Earth’s gravity alters its physical characteristics. Their findings will improve our ability to defend our planet from any similar object found to be on a collision course in the future.
Juno Detected the Final Missing Auroral Signature from Jupiter’s Four Largest Moons
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-02 20:56
Jupiter hosts the brightest and most spectacular auroras in the Solar System. Unlike Earth’s northern lights, the largest moons of Jupiter create their own auroral signatures in the planet’s atmosphere. These moon-induced auroras, known as “satellite footprints,” reveal how each moon interacts with its local space environment.
PERSEI Space to test tether solution for orbital mobility
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 19:51
PERSEI Space has been selected for the European Space Agency’s Flight Ticket Initiative program. The company’s Electrodynamic Tether technology offers a propellant-free approach to deorbiting defunct spacecraft and extending the operational life of active satellites. PERSEI has developed three complementary technologies that form its EDT ecosystem.
Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch five Falcon 9 missions this week
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-03 12:11
Five Falcon 9 launches make up the launch manifest for this week. Four of them will add over 100 satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, and one will transport a single Indonesian telecommunications satellite into orbit. China is now expected to launch three missions before the end of the week.
SpaceX McGregor looks to the future, from Raptor 3 to potential HLS testing
Original Publication Date: 2025-09-02 12:13
SpaceX’s engine development and testing site in McGregor continues to be a hive of activity. Recent updates reveal intensified Raptor engine trials and the construction of a large-scale rig. The latter has ignited speculation about its potential ties to Starship’s Human Landing System (HLS)