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Last Updated: Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, 9:53 AM PDT
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China’s industrial push to mass-produce rockets and satellites using automotive-style manufacturing
By South China Morning Post: Borrowing from the motor industry, the national aerospace sector embraces a new mass production operating model.

IAI Unveils New Communications Satellite Platform to Boost Global Connectivity
By SpaceNews.com: IAI's Game-Changing Communication Satellites: Revolutionizing Global Connectivity.

Blue Origin to increase New Shepard flight rate and consider new spaceports
By SpaceNews.com: Blue Origin plans to significantly increase the launch rate of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle and is weighing the addition of new spaceports.

Raptor Engine Revolution: How SpaceX’s Methalox Engines Are Redefining Rocket Propulsion
By orbitaltoday.com: SpaceX's Raptor engine: Methalox tech, iterative design, and failures behind the key to reusable Mars missions.

SpaceX’s Starship: What the Recent Test Flight — and Musk’s Terrestrial Challenges — Mean for the Industry
By Los Angeles Times: Elon Musk wants to reach Mars with his Starship rocket, which recently completed a successful test flight, but here on Earth he faces terrestrial challenges.

China boosts broadband, IoT and weather satellite fleets with flurry of launches
By SpaceNews.com: China boosts broadband, IoT and weather satellite fleets with flurry of launches A flurry of launch activity has seen China add to an Internet of Things constellation, loft new broadband satellites and boost its weather satellite fleet.

Science at the Moon: How Artemis 2 Advances NASA and CSA Science Objectives
By SpaceQ: The Artemis 2 moon mission is getting a heavy focus on the astronauts but it's also worth talking about the science it will perform.