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• Robert Z. Pearlman
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• Robert Z. Pearlman
Today In Space
Last Updated: Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, 1:20 PM PDT
2025-08-31T13:20:07.554267-07:00 2025-08-31T13:20:07.554267-07:00 (2025-08-31T13:20:07.554267-07:00)
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Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
Scientists Discover Unusual Plasma Waves in Jupiter's Aurora
By Universe Today: In the cold darkness above Jupiter's poles, where temperatures plummet to hundreds of degrees below zero, something remarkable is happening that challenges our understanding of planetary science.
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SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
Chinese launch startup Orienspace raises Series B+ funding (tens of millions) ahead of key test flight
By SpaceNews.com: Launch startup Orienspace secures B+ round funding, targets test flight Chinese commercial rocket company Orienspace has raised tens of millions of dollars in Series B+ financing as it moves towards a key test flight.
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Space.com
• Clive Neal
NASA to deploy fission reactor on the Moon by 2030 to power lunar resource extraction
By Space.com: NASA plans to prioritize the fission reactor as power necessary to extract and refine lunar resources.
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Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
ESA Restores Communications with JUICE Ahead of Venus Gravity-Assist Flyby
By Universe Today: The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) suffered a communications anomaly on its way Venus for a gravity-assist maneuver. Thanks to swift and coordinated action by the teams at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) and Airbus, communications were restored in time to prepare for its upcoming flyby with Venus.
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Space.com
• Daisy Dobrijevic
Aurora alert: Potential 'cannibal' CME could raise geomagnetic storm risk and produce northern lights over Labor Day
By Space.com: A pair of solar eruptions may combine into a powerful "cannibal CME," boosting chances for dazzling auroras over Labor Day.
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Universe Today
• Laurence Tognetti
Evidence of a New Coronal Barrier Offers Clues to Solar Wind Acceleration and Coronal Heating
By Universe Today: What processes are responsible for our Sun’s solar wind, heat, and energy? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review X hopes to address as a team of researchers presented evidence for a newly discovered type of barrier that the Sun exhibits that could help explain the transfer of energy to heat within the Sun’s outer atmosphere.
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Spaceflight Now
• Will Robinson-Smith
SpaceX’s Sunday morning Falcon 9 launch will send 1,900th Starlink to orbit in 2025
By Spaceflight Now: Update Aug. 31, 8:15 a.m. EDT: SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 booster on the drone ship. SpaceX capped off the month of August with a Sunday morning sunrise Starlink mission.
