HEO (@heospace) has imaged @AST_SpaceMobile 's Bluebird 6 satellite in orbit. It looks significantly different from the illustrations on AST Space Mobile's website.
https://x.com/heospace/status/2031492874576212340
The number of launches and especially of individual satellites have drastically increased in 2025.
And here are the launch statistics for 2025 by launch vehicle families:
Note:
* includes the marginally suborbital Starship launches
* includes Iranian Zoljanah launch, which is unclear, if it was orbital attempt
As every year, here are the launch statistics for 2025 by country.
Note:
* includes the marginally suborbital Starship launches
* includes Iranian Zoljanah launch, which is unclear, if it was orbital attempt
* RocketLab launches are listed as New Zealand / USA
Wow - the Musk-Trump-bromance turns into a full-bloom divorce battle.
Collateral damage may be crewed spaceflight, as Musk threatens to decommission the Dragon crewed spacecraft.
I did not see this escalating so fast...
Wow, for the first time a got a KatWarn (a German catastrophe warning app) warning for reentering space debris (discarded ISS batteries).
Astrobotics Peregrine lunar lander has suffered shortly after launch a propulsion failure which led to a critical loss of propellants.
I think, this likely rules out a lunar landing. :-(
But perhaps some engineering data can be gathered.
A highlight from today from my email inbox:
Some guy threats to start legal actions against me if I do not stop using my satellites to monitor him and to manipulate his brain waves.
🤦♂️🤦🤦♀️
ESA's JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) is a large 5963 kg spacecraft to explore Jupiters moons - volcanic Io, icy Europa and rock-ice Ganymede & Callisto - during a number of fly-bys and also continuously observe Jupiter’s atmosphere and magnetosphere.
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/juice.htm
JUICE
JUICE (Jupiter Icy moons Explorer), is a planned Jupiter probe, which was selected by ESA as the first Large-class mission of ESAÂ’s Cosmic Vision ...
The new North Korean solid fuel ICBM Hwasong-18 has some lookalikes...
