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Last Updated: Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, 1:44 AM PST
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satnews
• Sat News
SES expands multi-launch agreement with Relativity Space for Terran R reusable rocket
By satnews:  SES, earlier this month, extended a multi-year, multi-launch services agreement with Relativity Space which is building the Terran R rocket—the companies are partnering for multiple launches aboard Terran R, a medium-to-heavy-lift, reusable launch vehicle, that will bring the selected SES satellites to.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
ESA Uses ExoMars TGO Observations to Improve Trajectory of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Tenfold
By Universe Today: Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked to predict its trajectory. ESA has now improved the comet’s predicted location by a factor of 10, thanks to the innovative use of observation data from our ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft orbiting Mars.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
Hong Kong to Launch Lunar Orbiter in 2028 to Monitor Meteoroid Impacts Ahead of Planned Lunar Base
By Universe Today: In 2028, Hong Kong will launch its first dedicated lunar orbiter not to study craters or map minerals, but to monitor something far more urgent, the constant barrage of meteoroids slamming into the Moon's surface at thousands of kilometres per hour.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
South Korea’s Nuri rocket successfully launches Earth-observation satellite on its fourth flight
By Space.com: It was the fourth-ever flight for the 155-foot-tall Nuri.
Satellite News Network
South Korea launches Earth-observation satellite on homegrown Nuri rocket
Satellite Evolution
Alén Space completes development of the ETRISat satellite for South Korea’s ETRI
Space.com
• Elizabeth Howell
Soyuz crew to join ISS in time for Thanksgiving — astronauts plan lobster dinner (video)
By Space.com: If all goes to plan, a new Soyuz astronaut crew will join the ISS in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
NASA Spaceflight
Soyuz MS-28 poised to launch three new crew members to ISS
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
The Strange Physics Beneath Icy Moons
By Universe Today: Beneath the frozen shells of Saturn's tiny moons, hidden oceans might occasionally boil, not from heat, but from dropping pressure as ice melts from below.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
Can Russia’s revived Soyuz-5 win customers after the Ukraine war cut off Western launch business?
By Ars Technica: After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western market for satellite launches dried up.
