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Maybe they trapped it over there
Solar Impacts Begin, More Coming | S0 News Oct.17.2025
Oct 17, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R22ZAWpN4Yg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGYZUo5NPxo (Solar Micronova - More Isotope Evidence)
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-watch-16-oct
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://x.com/SunWeatherMan
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-sunward-jet-from-3i-atlas-imaged-by-the-two-meter-twin-telescope-d37ba1808ed2
https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/1979141717413577133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvkOV6WbFiI (3I/ATLAS LATEST Massive Anomalies And Weirdness Oct 16, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2eubH6jUPk (You better LOOK now! This won't be seen for another 1150 YEARS! Oct 16, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoxErht7Tc (NEW 3I/ATLAS OFFICIAL PICTURE RELEASED! NOW WHAT? Oct 17, 2025)
A Sunward Jet from 3I/ATLAS, Imaged by the Two-meter Twin Telescope
October 17, 2025
The most tantalizing feature of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, was displayed in an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on July 21, 2025 (as reported here and analyzed here).
The image showed an extended glow pointed towards the Sun. The viewing direction was only 10 degrees away from the direction of 3I/ATLAS relative to the Sun, implying that if the glow had been viewed sideways, it would be about 10 times longer than it is wide.
This was highlighted in a paper I wrote with Eric Keto (accessible here). The 10:1 axis ratio constitutes the geometry of a jet pointed from 3I/ATLAS towards the Sun.
As soon as the Hubble image was publicized, comet experts cheered that 3I/ATLAS behaves as a comet. But their enthusiasm neglected the fact that the image revealed an anti-tail pointing towards the Sun.
Realizing this is as shocking as photographing an animal in your backyard which your family members identify as a common street cat, while the image shows a tail coming out of the animal’s forehead.
The only attempt to explain this unique quality of 3I/ATLAS was made in the paper I wrote with Eric Keto (accessible here).
Comets are characterized by a tail of dust and gas which points away from the Sun. The reason is simple: the solar radiation and solar wind push the dust and gas away from the Sun.
If the sunward jet (anti-tail) contained refractory dust particles, as found in familiar comets, then that scattered sunlight would have pushed these particles away from the Sun relative to the massive nucleus of 3I/ATLAS.
Larger dust particles with sizes up to hundreds of micrometers, have a smaller surface area per unit mass and are pushed less effectively by sunlight, but they are also less effective at scattering sunlight.
The most effective scattering particles are those with a size comparable to the wavelength of sunlight, about 0.5 micrometer. If such particles were shed by 3I/ATLAS, they would have definitely showed up in a tail pushed in the direction away from the Sun relative to the massive nucleus.
A new image (accessible here) was just reported from the Two-meter Twin Telescope (TtT) which includes two pairs of 0.8 meter telescopes at the Teide Observatory in the Canary Islands, Spain.
The image, composed of 159 exposures of 50 seconds each, was taken on August 2, 2025. It shows a faint jet pointed towards the Sun. Similarly to the Hubble image, the jet extends to a projected distance of about 6,000 kilometers from the nucleus.
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The existence of an anti-tail (jet) pointed towards the Sun is an anomaly that raises two questions:
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What is the nature of the anti-tail?
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Why are comet experts ignoring this anomaly while insisting that 3I/ATLAS is a familiar comet?
I am working with Eric Keto on a follow-up paper regarding the first question (based on the physics described here). However, I leave the second question to historians of science.
The Hebrew word “Dayenu” means “It would have been enough”. Paraphrasing the Dayenu song of Passover (accessible here) — which Stephen Hawking enjoyed at my home a decade ago, one can summarize the anomalies of 3I/ATLAS as follows:
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If 3I/ATLAS had a sunward jet or anti-tail (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS was a million times more massive than 1I/`Oumuamua and a thousand times more massive than 2I/Borisov, while moving much faster than both (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS was aligned in its trajectory within 5 degrees with the ecliptic plane of the planets around the Sun (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS had a fine-tuned arrival time, so that it passes within tens of millions of kilometers from Mars, Venus and Jupiter (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS showed a gas plume with nickel but no iron (as found in industrially-produced nickel alloys) and a nickel to cyanide ratio that is orders of magnitude larger than all known comets, including 2I/Borisov (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS showed a gas plume with only 4% water by mass, while comet experts forecasted that it is water rich (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS showed extreme negative polarization, unprecedented for all known comets, including 2I/Borisov (see here), Dayenu!
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If 3I/ATLAS arrived from a direction coincident with the “Wow! Signal” to within 9 degrees (see here), Dayenu!
Another new preprint about 3I/ATLAS (accessible here), suggested to detect its gaseous plume when it will pass within 8 million kilometers from the Europa Clipper and Hera spacecraft during the coming month.
However, I calculated that since the density of the outflowing gas declines inversely with distance squared, the gas plume would be swept away by the solar wind at a distance that is an order of magnitude smaller than the closest approach distance of 3I/ATLAS from these two spacecraft.
Eventually, the second question raised above will need to be addressed by historians of science. History depends on who writes it. The history of the 21st century will likely be written by AI systems.
Hopefully, these AI systems will not be too indoctrinated by the club of unimaginative scientists who ignore the anomalies of 3I/ATLAS. If AI historians will be biased by myths rather than facts, we will be justified in unplugging them from their power supply.
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few more links for Atlas
https://thedebrief.org/3i-atlas-update-what-new-data-reveals-about-the-most-puzzling-interstellar-object-ever-found/
https://thedebrief.org/3i-atlas-displays-more-anomalies-as-latest-data-confirms-strange-object-has-developed-an-anti-solar-tail/
https://www.iflscience.com/two-spacecraft-to-fly-through-comet-3iatlass-ion-tail-will-they-be-able-to-catch-something-81195
NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy
@SecDuffyNASA
Five years ago today, under President Trump’s leadership, the United States founded the Artemis Accords alongside seven other nations
@StateDept and @NASA have brought the number of signatories to 56 since then, and we’re not stopping now.
Together, we’re committed to peaceful, safe, and transparent exploration of the Moon and beyond.
2:23 PM · Oct 13, 2025
https://x.com/SecDuffyNASA/status/1977847657201627630
https://x.com/SecDuffy/status/1978959102727344464
didnt mean to jinx it
Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit
Fri 17 Oct 2025 // 11:25 UTC
Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset available on Azure via the Windows giant's Planetary Computer platform.
It seems an excellent use for all that Azure capacity – petabytes of global environmental data can be accessed through APIs or directly via Azure storage.
"This flexible scientific environment allows users to answer questions about the data, and both build applications and use applications on top of the platform," Microsoft said.
The HLS dataset is a vast archive of data from Earth-monitoring spacecraft, in this case NASA's Landsat 8 and 9 and the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites.
It's an invaluable tool for researchers looking into climate change, changes in land use, agricultural applications, and so on.
Landsat 8 is getting a little long in the tooth, having been launched in 2013. It was joined in 2021 by Landsat 9. Whether a follow-up – dubbed Landsat Next – will ever happen depends on the final budget for NASA science.
ESA has launched Sentinel-2A, B, and C so far. Sentinel-2C reached orbit in 2024 and Sentinel-2D will launch in the next few years. Combined with 2C, it will replace the aging Sentinel-2A and B spacecraft.
The HLS project was a major outcome of the 2016 Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG). According to NASA, the Landsats can collect observations with 30-meter spatial resolution over a 16-day repeat period.
The Sentinels provide 10 to 20-meter spatial resolution with a five-day repeat period. Combined through HLS, observations can be acquired at a 30-meter spatial resolution every two to three days, with the satellite data appearing as one collection.
NASA funds the HLS dataset. The agency is currently subject to the US government shutdown, and it is unclear whether that funding will continue until budget proposals, some of which include substantial cuts to science programs, are finalized.
Microsoft did not respond to questions about whether it might step in to cover any gaps.
Considering the amount of compute devoted to AI applications, this seems a good use of Azure resources. However, Microsoft, being Microsoft, had to weigh in with some Copilot and AI suggestions for researchers.
The Windows giant suggested that perhaps researchers might like to use the Azure OpenAI Service "to create intelligent applications that enhance Earth observation analysis."
Or perhaps the prototype NASA Earth Copilot and natural language queries could be used to generate insights into the geospatial data.
Microsoft came up with a list of ways that HLS data and Azure AI could be used. These include automation of land classification and vegetation monitoring, deforestation trends, and the prediction of environmental patterns.
Oddly, as a subject for research, it did not mention the environmental impact of all the datacenters devoted to crunching data for AI applications. We can't imagine why.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/microsoft_azure_satellite_data/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azuregov/nasa-hls-on-mpc/
SETI Post-Detection Protocols: Progress Towards A New Version
October 16, 2025
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) SETI Committee has long provided guiding principles for responding to a potential detection of a SETI signal.
The foundational Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, first formulated in 1989, has been widely recognised by the international scientific community.
A supplemental set of draft protocols addressing the possibility of a reply to an extraterrestrial signal was prepared in 1995 by the IAA SETI Permanent Committee, with both documents presented in a position paper to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in 2000.
In keeping with the evolving landscape of SETI research, the IAA Declaration of Principles was streamlined and updated in 2010.
Recognising the need for continued adaptation, the IAA SETI Committee established a Task Group in 2022 to re-examine the protocols in light of recent advances in search methodologies, the expansion of international participation in SETI, and the increasing complexity of the global information environment.
The Group recognises the living document nature of the protocols, which will require ongoing refinement to remain relevant and effective in a rapidly changing world.
A draft revised Declaration of Principles was presented at the IAC 2024 in Milan, and initial feedback was received from the community, particularly members of the IAA SETI Committee.
Since then, we have continued to seek broader community input in a structured process, refining the proposed updates based on further discussions and consultations. A Revised Declaration of Principles, is presented here.
https://astrobiology.com/2025/10/seti-post-detection-protocols-progress-towards-a-new-version.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14506
Angola Launches National Space Agency
October 17, 2025
Angola has launched a national space agency, aimed at spearheading the implementation of its National Space Program.
João Lourenço, President of Angola, announced the launch of the Angolan Space Agency during his State of the Nation Address on Wednesday this week.
Operating on five key pillars – space infrastructure, training and promotion, industry and technology, international positioning and organization and cooperation – the agency will serve as the central authority on space affairs, building on the foundation laid by the National Space Program Management Office.
The agency will transform Angola from a user of space services and products to a producer and operator, enhancing the country’s technological independence in space.
The country currently operates the space telecommunications satellite ANGOSAT-2, providing communication services to urban and remote areas.
https://energycapitalpower.com/angola-launches-national-space-agency/
https://spaceinafrica.com/2025/10/15/angola-establishes-national-space-agency-following-presidential-announcement/
How we protected the UK and space in September 2025
17 October 2025
This report was issued in October 2025 and covers the time period 1 September 2025 to 30 September 2025 inclusive.
September saw increased levels of space activity with both uncontrolled re-entry and collision alerts higher than in August. However, overall risk levels were below the 12-month rolling average.
All NSpOC warning and protection services were functioning throughout the period.
Re-entry Analysis
September saw a 15% increase in the number of objects re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, monitored by NSpOC, when compared with the previous month.
Of the 39 objects that re-entered, 35 were satellites and four were rocket bodies.
In-Space Collision Avoidance
Collision risks to UK-licensed satellites were higher in September with a 58% increase when compared with August, caused by more interactions between UK licenced objects and other spacecraft or debris over the previous 30 days.
Number of Objects in Space
The in-orbit population increased in September, with a net addition of 159 objects to the US Satellite Catalogue.
The number of Resident Space Objects (RSOs) reported may be subject to small adjustments over time as the way objects are tracked is refined.
Figures in this report reflect the most current available data and may differ slightly from those published in previous months.
Fragmentation Analysis
There have been no new fragmentation (break-up) incidents this month.
Space weather
Space weather activity was slightly elevated in September with geomagnetic storms recorded throughout the month.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/how-we-protected-the-uk-and-space-in-september-2025
China claims new space radar can detect US stealth jets even through clouds
Updated: Oct 17, 2025 06:19 AM EST
hina’s latest research claims that the age of undetectable stealth aircraft might soon be over.
A team of Chinese scientists has allegedly demonstrated through simulations that space-based radar satellites could track stealth fighters like the F-22 Raptor and B-21 Raider from orbit — a goal once considered impossible.
The study, published this month, shows that a new type of bistatic radar satellite system can suppress background clutter from land and sea surfaces, allowing it to detect faint radar signatures even in challenging conditions.
Overcoming the limits of optical satellites
China had already showcased its ability to spot stealth jets with the Jilin-1 commercial satellite constellation, which successfully tracked an F-22 flying through clouds.
But optical systems are limited by daylight and weather. They cannot operate at night or penetrate fog, clouds, or storms.
For real military use, radar satellites are far more dependable since they can function 24/7 under all conditions.
For years, however, experts believed that detecting stealth aircraft from orbit was nearly impossible because radar signals would be lost amid the reflections from rough seas or mountains.
Breakthrough with the LT-1 dual-satellite system
In 2022, China launched the Ludi Tance No. 1 (LT-1) dual-satellite radar system that operates in a bistatic configuration. One satellite transmits radar pulses while the other receives the echoes.
This design reduces interference and background clutter, improving the ability to detect hidden or low-observable aircraft.
“When the target is a small moving object, its RCS is inherently small, and given the long detection range of space-borne radar systems, the returned echo signal becomes extremely weak, severely degrading target detection performance,” wrote the research team led by Chen Junli, chief satellite designer at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST), as reported by South China Morning Post (SCMP).
“To address this challenge, the space-borne bistatic radar architecture leverages a key characteristic: under large azimuth bistatic angles, there is a high probability of significant RCS enhancement for the target,” Chen and his colleagues revealed.
The study simulated a stealth target with a radar cross-section (RCS) of 10 square meters, which is realistic for modern stealth aircraft when viewed from above.
The radar used the L-band frequency at 4 kilowatts transmission power, matching known LT-1 specifications.
Simulations point to real-world detection potential
The simulations showed that bistatic radar can effectively reduce clutter and detect moving targets at speeds as low as 50 km/h (31 mph), SCMP reported.
The researchers also noted that the system’s receiver, which does not transmit signals, makes the network harder to jam.
“The anti-interference ability can be improved because the receiver does not transmit signals,” the team added.
The findings were supported by China’s top institutions involved in LT-1’s development, including Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and SAST.
Together, they created a new model to simulate radar clutter more accurately than existing models. The optimal detection occurred at bistatic angles between 30 and 130 degrees, where radar clutter was lowest even over rough seas.
This setup suggests that China’s twin-satellite architecture can, in theory, overcome the very background noise that once made stealth aircraft invisible from orbit.
A strategic turning point
If verified through real-world experiments, this research could change global military strategy. Stealth jets, long believed to be invisible from space, may now be within reach of orbiting radars.
China’s growing constellation of radar satellites could enable continuous, all-weather monitoring of air activity across wide regions.
The implications are immense that stealth aircraft and even low-flying drones or cruise missiles could soon be detectable from space.
https://interestingengineering.com/military/chinas-space-radar-may-track-f-22s
https://radars.ac.cn/en/article/doi/10.12000/JR25059
Russian cosmonauts install semiconductor experiment, jettison old HDTV camera during spacewalk outside ISS
October 16, 2025
Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor materials experiment, as well as retrieve and jettison a no-longer-needed camera from the exterior of the orbiting complex.
Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineer Alexey Zubritsky, both with Russia's federal space corporation Roscosmos, marked the end of their first extravehicular activity (EVA) together at 7:19 p.m. EDT (2319 GMT) on Thursday (Oct. 16).
The two cosmonauts reentered the Poisk module's airlock and closed the hatch behind them, 6 hours and 9 minutes after they began the spacewalk at 1:10 p.m. EDT (1710 GMT).
After configuring their tools, the two crewmates made their way to their first worksite, outside of the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
Ryzhikov held onto the Ekran-M, or Molecular Beam Epitaxy experiment, while riding at the end of the European Robotic Arm (ERA), which was driven by cosmonaut Oleg Platonov from a workstation inside the space station.
Ryzhikov and Zubritsky installed the drum-shaped unit, ran power cables and mounted a swappable cassette.
The experiment is intended to demonstrate the ability to produce very thin materials — too thin to be made reliably on Earth — that can go from the microgravity environment of outer space to being used in semiconductors.
Their primary task completed, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky then made their way to the Zvezda service module to remove and dispose of a high-definition television system that was originally a part of a Canadian commercial payload.
Zubritsky then stood a the end of the European Robotic Arm and tossed the camera overboard, toward the rear of the space station, ensuring it would not come back in contact with the outpost.
"It is going so well," radioed Zubritsky as the camera disappeared into the shadow of Earth. "Jettison is complete."
Given its relatively small mass (180 pounds, or 82 kilograms) and volume (2 by 4.6 by 2.3 feet, or 0.6 by 1.4 by 0.7 meters), the jettisoned equipment will fall back to Earth and be destroyed during its reentry into the atmosphere.
Ryzhikov and Zubritsky also cleaned a window on the service module before heading back to the Poisk module, picking up an exposed material samples experiment to bring back with them into the space station.
Thursday's spacewalk was the second for Expedition 73 and the 276th in support of the International Space Station's assembly and maintenance since 1998.
It was Zubritsky's first EVA and the second for Ryzhikov, who now has logged a total of 12 hours and 57 minutes on his two spacewalks.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/russian-cosmonauts-install-semiconductor-experiment-jettison-old-hdtv-camera-during-spacewalk-outside-iss
https://www.space.com/news/live/international-space-station-live-updates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzZ-8z8fME
China Launches
China launches internet satellites on 600th mission of Long March rocket
OCtober 17, 2025
China's Long March rocket family now has 600 flights under its belt.
A Long March 8A lifted off on Wednesday (Oct. 15) from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the island of Hainan at 9:33 p.m. EDT (0133 GMT and 9:33 a.m. local time on Oct. 16).
The mission, which successfully lofted a batch of satellites for the Guowang broadband network, was the 600th ever for a Long March rocket.
The first Long March liftoff occurred on April 24, 1970, when a Long March 1 sent China's first satellite, called Dong Fang Hong 1, to orbit.
Over the ensuing 55 years, the nation has developed more than 20 different types of Long March rockets, 16 of which are active today, according to China Daily. And China's launch cadence has accelerated considerably over that span.
"It took 37 years for the Long March family to complete its first 100 launches," China Daily wrote on Thursday (Oct. 16). "The second 100 were achieved in 7.5 years.
The third 100 launches took just over four years, the fourth 100 took two years and nine months, and the fifth 100 missions were completed in two years. The most recent 100 launches were accomplished in one year and 10 months."
The fleet's success rate overall is about 97%, the outlet added.
The Long March isn't the most-flown rocket family of all time; that distinction goes to the Soviet/Russian Soyuz line, which has completed more than 1,700 missions since debuting in November 1966.
The Soviet Union's Kosmos family and the American Atlas series have hit the 600 mark as well. And SpaceX's Falcon line, consisting of the Falcon 1 (which was retired in 2009), Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, will get there soon.
Falcons have flown more than 570 times to date, and they're rocketing off the pad at unprecedented rates; SpaceX has already conducted 130 Falcon 9 launches so far this year alone.
Guowang ("national network") is a nascent broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) that will be operated by the state-run company China Satnet. The network will eventually consist of about 13,000 satellites, if all goes to plan.
Wednesday's launch lofted the 12th group of Guowang satellites. Each batch is thought to consist of eight to 10 spacecraft.
Another Chinese internet constellation, called Qianfan ("Thousand Sails"), will have about the same number of spacecraft.
Both networks are following in the footsteps of SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of more than 8,600 operational spacecraft and is growing all the time. (About 70% of this year's Falcon 9 launches have been Starlink missions.)
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/china-launches-internet-satellites-on-600th-mission-of-long-march-rocket-video
Watch the 2nd-ever launch of China's record-breaking Gravity-1 rocket
October 16, 2025
A squat and brawny Chinese rocket just aced its second-ever liftoff.
Orienspace's Gravity-1, the world's most powerful solid-fuel rocket, launched from the deck of a ship in the Yellow Sea on Oct. 10 at 10:20 p.m. EDT (0420 GMT and 10:20 a.m. Beijing time on Oct. 11).
The dramatic liftoff, which was caught on video, sent two huge plumes of exhaust into the hazy sky.
The 100-foot-tall (30-meter-tall) Gravity-1 consists of three stages and four strap-on boosters, all of which employ solid-fuel rocket motors.
The vehicle is capable of lofting about 14,300 pounds (6,500 kilograms) of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO).
The Oct. 10 launch was successful, sending one wide-field satellite and two experimental spacecraft to their designated orbits, according to the state-run Chinese broadcaster CCTV.
Gravity-1 also lofted some satellites — three Yunyao-1 commercial weather spacecraft — on its first flight, which launched in January 2024 from the deck of this same barge.
Orienspace is developing two larger and more powerful rockets, known as Gravity-2 and Gravity-3.
Gravity-2 will feature a liquid-fuel core stage and solid rocket boosters as well as be capable of sending about 25.6 tons to LEO, Andrew Jones reported in SpaceNews last year.
Gravity-3 will employ three Gravity-2 core stages, much as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket uses three strapped-together Falcon 9 boosters, according to Jones. Gravity-3's payload capacity will be about 5 tons greater than that of Gravity-2.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/watch-the-2nd-ever-launch-of-chinas-record-breaking-gravity-1-rocket-video
https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/could-the-worlds-1st-private-space-telescope-help-find-stars-with-habitable-exoplanets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qew41PEHizQ
Could the world's 1st private space telescope help find stars with habitable exoplanets?
October 17, 2025
The world's first commercial deep space astronomy telescope is set to search for stars that could host habitable exoplanets in their orbits.
The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries an off-the-shelf ultraviolet spectrometer modified to monitor flaring stars.
It is one of the payloads that will launch on SpaceX's upcoming Transporter-15 mission, currently set for no earlier than November 2025.
Just like our sun, other stars in the universe produce flares — flashes of high-energy radiation from the dark, magnetically dense regions known as sunspots. Each flare sends a wave of energetic particles into the star's surroundings.
When such a wave washes over Earth, the radiation, consisting of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet light, interferes with radio transmissions, causing blackouts. The flare also disturbs the ionosphere — the electrically charged layer of Earth's atmosphere at altitudes above 20 miles.
This interference affects the accuracy of the navigation and positioning signal from satellites such as the U.S. GPS system.
But the sun is not a very active star. Research suggests that many of its siblings are much more temperamental. The bursts of radiation that some stars produce are so intense and so frequent that they virtually sear any object in their vicinity, preventing any possible life from emerging.
By tracking the flaring of hundreds of stars, Mauve will help astronomers pick out those that are more likely to host habitable exoplanets.
"Mauve will allow us to understand the behavior of stars when they are emitting large amounts of energy," Marcell Tessenyi, the founder and CEO of Blue Skies Space, told Space.com.
"It will also help us understand what sort of impacts these stars might have on their neighboring planets. We will be able to understand which stars are likely to be damaging for a life environment and which would be benign."
The last dedicated mission to observe stellar ultraviolet light, the International Ultraviolet Explorer, ended in 1996. The legendary Hubble Space Telescope can perform such measurements, but availability of observing time is limited, Tessenyi said.
Hundreds of science teams from all over the world compete for observing time on the veteran space telescope, pursuing a multitude of challenging astronomical research projects that can't be accomplished by any other star-watching machine.
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Since scientific interest in exoplanets is on the rise, Blue Skies Space decided to cover the increasing demand for observations of stellar flares with a small, low-cost telescope and sell the resulting data to scientists worldwide through a yearly subscription model.
"The space agencies do a fantastic job at delivering very high-quality space telescopes, but sometimes it can take a long time," Tessenyi said.
"And when these satellites are operational, like the Hubble Space Telescope or James Webb, people have to apply and hope they get the observing time they need. But not all science requires a very large and complicated satellite."
With the low-cost Mauve (the company refused to disclose the exact cost of the mission), Blue Skies Space is pioneering a new approach to astronomical research from space.
Although the new commercial space ethos of building satellites fast and cheap has dominated Earth imaging from space for years, deep-space astronomy has so far been headed mostly in the opposite direction — trending toward more complex machines worth billions of dollars.
Mauve, built in less than three years, is Blue Skies Space's first satellite to launch, although it was conceived after another mission, called Twinkle, which is still in the works.
Twinkle, expected to make it to space later this decade, is a larger satellite, weighing 330 pounds (150 kilograms in mass) and carrying an 18-inch (45 cm) telescope.
Like Mauve, Twinkle will look for exoplanets around nearby stars and gather information about their chemical composition. But Mauve, Tessenyi said, will help the researchers zoom in on the most promising stellar systems, to make Twinkle's work easier.
Tessenyi said that despite initial scepticism among scientists whether the new space way could work for astronomy, Blue Skies Space has seen a lot of interest in both of their missions.
Nineteen universities from all over the world have already signed up for the data, which will begin streaming to Earth early next year.
Mauve will orbit Earth at an altitude of 310 miles (500 kilometers) for at least three years. If the project is successful, Blue Skies Space might add more satellites to its fleet in the future.
The company is already studying a concept of a successor to Mauve, a more potent UV-observer Mauve+.
"We finance the satellites upfront, put them into space, and once the mission is operational, we make data available to users and over time we recover the cost of the construction and operations," Tessenyi said.
"If the satellite is a success and we make a surplus, we reinvest that into our subsequent satellites and we grow the company to deliver more satellites using this model."
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Comet Lemmon's ghostly tail haunts the skies above England
October 16, 2025
Award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury has captured a stunning view of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) shining in the sky over Somerset in the U.K. ahead of its close approach to Earth on Oct. 21.
Dury revealed Comet Lemmon's bright green coma and long diffuse tail streaking through the eventing sky in exquisite detail as day gave way to night above the Mendip Hills area Oct. 12.
Comet Lemmon's tail was formed when heat radiating from the sun caused icy materials embedded in its ancient body to transform directly into gas, a process known as sublimation.
This diffuse cloud of debris was then blown away by the steady stream of charged particles emanating from our sun known as the solar wind — hence why a comet's tail is always seen pointing away from the sun.
Dury worked through haze and high wind to capture a breathtaking shot of the distant night sky visitor using his Sony A7S III camera in concert with a Sigma 135mm F/1.4 Art lens, as a diffuse pink aurora glowed close to the horizon.
"I would say in this instance, the weather was more the challenge," Dury told Space.com. "With anti-cyclonic gloom affecting the weather for the best part of a week or more, there wasn’t much opportunity to photograph the comet from here in the West Country. Taken from higher ground, I was surrounded by haze, mist and fog."
Comet Lemmon has a current magnitude of around +4.9, which should make it visible to the naked eye from dark sky locations.
The comet is expected to continue to brighten ahead of its close approach to Earth, after which it will gradually fade from our skies for over a thousand years.
During that time, it will undertake an elliptical tour of the distant solar system that will take it well beyond the orbit of the gas giant Neptune.
targazers hoping to capture an image of Comet Lemmon before it disappears from Earth's sky should consider picking up a copy of Dury's book 52 Assignments: Night Photography, which gives tips on how to image comets and countless other deep sky targets.
Be sure to also check out our finders guide detailing where and when to look for Comet Lemmon throughout October.
https://www.space.com/stargazing/comet-c2025-a6-lemmon-ghostly-tail-haunts-skies-above-england-photo-oct-12-2025
https://www.joshduryphoto-media.com/
Russian journalist killed by Ukrainian drone
16 Oct, 2025 21:58
Russian war correspondent Ivan Zuyev has been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, his employer, RIA Novosti, announced on Thursday. Another journalist, Yury Voytkevich, was wounded and is in stable condition.
The incident occurred in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, north of Crimea, parts of which are held by Ukrainian forces, RIA said.
Dmitry Kiselev, the head of RIA’s parent company, Rossiya Segodnya, described Zuyev as a brave journalist who died in the line of duty. “He did a lot to report the truth from the warzone,” he said.
Moscow condemned the attack. “Journalists have long been targets of Kiev’s terrorism,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Zuyev is the third RIA journalist to die during the conflict. In July 2023, a Ukrainian missile strike killed reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev and wounded three other correspondents.
In August 2014, photojournalist Andrey Stenin was killed by Ukrainian forces while covering the insurgency in Donbass.
https://www.rt.com/russia/626579-russian-journalist-killed-ukraine/
Trump blindsided Zelensky with Putin call – Axios
17 Oct, 2025 11:09
Vladimir Zelensky was “surprised” upon landing in Washington that US President Donald Trump had held a substantive phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Axios has reported.
During the two-hour-30-minute call, reportedly proposed by Moscow, Putin agreed to meet Trump in Hungary within weeks.
This call, as well as the location of the proposed summit – described by Axios as “the least Ukraine-friendly country in the European Union” – reportedly caught Zelensky’s team off guard.
Trump characterized his conversation with Putin as “very productive” while the Russian president's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, described it as “very substantive and at the same time extremely frank.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban – a vocal critic of the Western approach to the Ukraine conflict and of Zelensky’s use of what he branded “moral blackmail” to secure military aid for Ukraine – also welcomed the call.
Zelensky is set to meet Trump on Friday to discuss his request for Tomahawk cruise missiles that would allow him directly target Moscow, a threat Russia has said would represent a significant escalation of the conflict.
Media reports have broadly interpreted Trump’s new diplomatic engagement with Putin as an indication that Kiev will not receive the Tomahawks. Putin, Trump said, “didn’t like the idea” of Ukraine acquiring the nuclear-capable weapons.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that it won’t yield to foreign pressure and will achieve its goals in the Ukraine conflict, either diplomatically or militarily.
https://www.rt.com/russia/626609-zelensky-surprised-trump-putin/
Putin call could lead to peace – Trump
17 Oct, 2025 09:46
US President Donald Trump has said his latest conversation with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, could lead to a peace settlement in the Ukraine conflict.
Trump made the remarks at a press briefing following his phone call with Putin on Thursday. There have been renewed US-Russia tensions over possible deliveries of American Tomahawk missile to Ukraine and stalled peace talks.
Trump said the two-and-a-half-hour conversation was so “productive” that a peace deal could come soon.
“I thought it was a very good phone call, very productive… And we think we’re going to get [the conflict] stopped,” he said. “This may be such a productive call that we’re going to end up… we want to get peace.”
Earlier, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “great progress was made” during the call and said he and Putin had agreed to hold a bilateral summit in Budapest, Hungary.
He told reporters the meeting will likely occur within two weeks, following talks between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as well as Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Washington on Friday.
The last Putin-Trump summit, held in Anchorage, Alaska, in August, yielded no breakthrough, but Trump said on Thursday it had “set the stage” for a broader peace process.
Commenting on possible Tomahawk deliveries to Kiev, Trump neither confirmed nor denied the plans, but noted that while the US has “a lot of them,” it needs the missiles for its own security and “can’t deplete” its arsenal.
According to Putin’s foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov, the Russian president told Trump during the phone call that sending Tomahawks to Kiev would not alter the battlefield situation but could “severely undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement” and harm Russia-US relations.
Ushakov said Putin had reaffirmed Moscow’s commitment to “a peaceful political-diplomatic resolution” and called the discussion “very substantive and extremely frank.”
He added that preparations for the next Putin-Trump summit would start immediately, with Budapest under consideration.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban later wrote on X that he had also spoken with Trump and that preparations were already underway.
https://www.rt.com/news/626594-putin-call-peace-trump/
Trump announces plan to meet Putin in Budapest
16 Oct, 2025 17:24
US President Donald Trump has announced plans for a summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Budapest, Hungary.
The meeting will take place at a date to be determined after “high-level advisers” from the two countries meet next week, he said in a Truth Social post on Thursday.
Washington’s delegation at the initial meeting will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he said, adding that the location is yet to be determined.
Trump expressed hope that by meeting with Putin, the two leaders will be able to bring the Ukraine conflict to a close.
The call “was a very productive one,” he said, adding: “I believe great progress was made with today’s telephone conversation.”
The last summit between the two presidents took place in Anchorage, Alaska in August. Both called the meeting productive, though no breakthrough was reached.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday praised the Trump administration’s diplomatic outreach, saying it is the only Western government that has made an effort to understand the fundamental causes of the Ukraine conflict.
Moscow is still awaiting Washington’s response to the roadmap presented at the Alaska summit, he added.
https://www.rt.com/news/626570-trump-putin-meeting-announced/
Deadly clashes erupt at politician’s funeral service in Kenya
17 Oct, 2025 10:47
At least four people were killed and others injured when Kenyan security forces opened fire and used teargas as unrest erupted at the funeral ceremony of veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga in Nairobi, local media reported on Thursday.
Mourners had gathered to view the body of Odinga at a stadium.
Odinga died on Wednesday at the age of 80 in India of reported cardiac arrest. His body is scheduled to be flown to Siaya on Saturday, ahead of the funeral on Sunday at his ancestral home in Bondo, The Star stated.
According to the published videos, the chaos began when a large crowd broke through the gates of the stadium where the body of the deceased politician popularly known as ‘Baba’, meaning father, was lying.
Soldiers first fired shots into the air, before live ammunition was used.
Earlier that day, thousands of mourners briefly forced their way into Nairobi’s international airport, halting a ceremony where President William Ruto and other officials were receiving Raila Odinga’s body with full military honors.
The disruption led to a two-hour suspension of airport operations.
The state funeral is taking place on Friday at the stadium. Also attending the ceremony are Winnie Odinga, daughter of Raila Odinga, and his son Raila Junior.
Raila Odinga was a dominant figure in Kenya’s opposition for more than 40 years, running unsuccessfully for president five times.
His disputed 2007 loss triggered unrest that led to over 1,000 people being killed. Emerging from that was a power-sharing deal under which the post of prime minister was created. He held that position from 2008 to 2013.
In 2022, William Ruto narrowly defeated him in a presidential election. Odinga continued to lead protests over governance and economic issues.
In June and July, a wave of violent anti-government protests swept across Kenya, with human rights groups reporting dozens dead, hundreds injured and property damaged.
The UN rights office called for independent investigations into the “use of force” by Kenyan police, while Ruto stated that protesters who attack security installations and businesses were waging “war” against the government.
https://www.rt.com/africa/626602-clashes-erupt-kenya-four-dead/
Air defenses neutralize 35 of 70 drones used in Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine
17.10.2025 10:05
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down or jammed 35 out of 70 Russian drones launched since the evening of October 16.
The Ukrainian Air Force Command said this in a Facebook post seen by Ukrinform.
During the night of October 16-17 (starting from 20:00 on October 16), the enemy attacked Ukraine with 70 strike UAVs, including Shahed, Geran, and other drone types, launched from Millerovo, Kursk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, as well as Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea. About 50 of them were Shahed-type drones.
The aerial assault was repelled by Ukrainian Air Force aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare and unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces.
Preliminary data as of 09:00 indicate that air defenses shot down or jammed 35 Shahed, Geran, and other types of drones over northern and eastern regions of the country.
Impacts from 31 strike drones were recorded at ten locations, and debris from downed UAVs fell at two additional locations.
The Ukrainian Air Force warned that the attack was ongoing, with several enemy drones still present in Ukrainian airspace.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4048288-air-defenses-neutralize-35-of-70-drones-used-in-russias-overnight-attack-on-ukraine.html
https://112.ua/en/ekstreni-vidklucenna-svitla-u-kievi-ta-oblastah-de-j-comu-zaprovadili-grafiki-105496
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4048452-russians-attack-railway-in-chernihiv-with-drone-injuring-train-driver.html
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4048380-russian-drone-drops-explosives-on-minibus-in-kherson.html
https://united24media.com/latest-news/drones-hit-major-atan-fuel-hub-in-occupied-crimea-fire-visible-for-miles-video-12577
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4048286-drone-attack-on-crimea-oil-depot-on-fire-in-hvardiiske.html
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/russias-largest-drone-strike-in-months-plunges-ukraine-into-darkness-as-zelenskyy-seeks-trumps-support-article-153012879
Russia downs own Su-30SM jet over Crimea while repelling drone attack
17 October 2025 14:03
Russian forces accidentally shot down one of their own Su-30SM fighter jets while repelling a Ukrainian drone attack over the temporarily occupied Crimea earlier today, the Ukrainian Navy reported.
"They were repelling Ukrainian attacks so actively that they ended up shooting down their own aircraft over Crimea today," Ukrainian Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said on Apostrof TV.
Pletenchuk provided no further details at the time. Online speculation suggested the friendly fire may have destroyed a Su-30SM fighter, with no immediate reports on the crew's status.
Ukrainian forces intercepted radio chatter indicating the aircraft suffered engine fires in both engines, followed by the crew's ejection. The plane likely crashed for undetermined reasons.
The incident came amid an overnight Ukrainian drone assault on occupied Crimea overnight into Friday that targeted an oil depot in the village of Hvardiyske, where explosions were heard around 2 a.m. local time and a possible ammunition warehouse caught fire
https://hromadske.ua/en/war/253250-rosiiany-zbyly-vlasnyy-litak-nad-krymom-koly-vidbyvaly-ataku-droniv-vms
https://t.me/ukrainian_navy/17086
Ukraine Gets British Missiles and Drones Early Amid Developing Defense Partnership
Oct. 17, 2025, 11:59 am
Hundreds of British-made missiles have arrived in Ukraine, five months ahead of schedule.
The delivery of the urgently needed air defense weapons comes as the United Kingdom continues to strengthen military and industrial ties with Kyiv amid Russia’s ongoing strikes against critical infrastructure.
The Belfast-made missiles will help protect Ukrainian cities and energy facilities against waves of missile and drone attacks that have intensified in recent months.
The Lightweight Multirole Missiles, or LMMs, are part of a British aid program tied to a £1.6 billion ($2.1 million) contract with Thales, a Belfast-based defense company.
The missiles are being integrated into Ukraine’s layered air defense network, complementing US made Patriot systems, which remain in short supply.
While Patriots intercept high-altitude missiles and aircraft over wide areas, LMMs provide shorter-range coverage for low-flying threats, like the Shahed drones that frequently target Ukrainian cities.
British officials said the new missiles will strengthen Ukraine’s air defenses, giving commanders more flexibility to respond to Russia’s evolving aerial tactics.
In recent months, Ukraine has diversified its defensive measures, deploying helicopters and domestically produced drones to intercept incoming munitions.
“This week has been a stark reminder of the need to increase our industrial support and capacity across Europe,” said Kevin Craven, CEO of leading UK defense group ADS.
“Continued industrial collaboration, both with our government counterparts and international allies, remains the only way we can secure a safe and prosperous future for the people of Ukraine.”
Last week’s British-led International Defence Industry Conference in Kyiv brought together officials and executives from NATO countries and UK defense firms to discuss manufacturing partnerships and technology sharing.
The meetings have already resulted in more than 30 joint ventures, generating jobs and investment both in Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
British officials said the UK has also delivered more than 80,000 drones to Ukraine in the first six months of 2025, part of a broader effort to boost the country’s surveillance and strike capabilities
The conference also outlined plans for expanded cooperation, including joint development of new weapons systems with Ukrainian firms.
One project, called Project Octopus, focuses on interceptor drones designed to counter waves of Russian Shahed drones, providing a scalable solution to a persistent threat and complementing long and short-range systems such as LMMs and Patriots.
Ukraine’s largest manufacturer of long-range drones, Ukrspecsystems, whose aircraft have been used to target Russian oil and gas facilities, plans to build two production plants in Britain, investing £200 million ($268 million) and creating up to 500 skilled jobs.
Smaller companies are also being encouraged to take part: the UK Defence Exports agency recently issued guidance for small and medium-size companies on procurement, partnership models, and contacts for entering Ukraine’s defense market.
The latest deliveries and agreements highlight how European military support for Ukraine is evolving. Missile shipments, industrial cooperation, and technology transfers are now seen as both immediate reinforcement and a long-term investment in Europe’s own security.
While at the beginning of the full-scale invasion NATO forces were once focused on delivering training to Ukrainian brigades, many Western governments are now seeking to learn from Ukraine’s battlefield experience – especially in drone warfare.
“Driving industrial partnerships is essential so that we can learn from their expertise and together build the industrial base we need to defend the UK, deter our adversaries, and support Ukraine,” said Luke Pollard, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry.
As the full-scale invasion nears its fifth year, Western support for Kyiv continues to shift. What began as a direct flow of aid has grown into a network of partnerships in which Ukraine’s battlefield innovations are shaping the strategies of its allies.
As European nations seek to modernize their defenses, Ukrainian expertise has become an invaluable resource, transforming Ukraine from a recipient of foreign assistance into an active contributor to Europe’s security.
These deepening ties contrast with former US President Donald Trump’s more transactional approach toward providing weapons to Ukraine and reflect a broader move toward long-term, reciprocal cooperation and partnership between Ukraine and its European allies.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/62237
Several said killed by IDF fire in Gaza; military says ‘suspicious vehicle’ crossed ceasefire line, neared troops
October 17, 2025 7:16 pm
The IDF says it targeted a vehicle that crossed the so-called Yellow Line — to which the military withdrew under the terms of the ceasefire — in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood earlier today.
The “suspicious vehicle” had been identified crossing the line and approaching Israeli forces in the area, the army says.
According to the IDF, warning shots were fired toward the car. After it continued to approach troops, “in a way that threatened them,” the forces struck the vehicle “to remove the threat,” the military says.
Palestinian media reports that the vehicle was carrying displaced Palestinians seeking to return to their homes, and that several were killed and wounded in the incident.
The IDF has repeatedly warned Palestinians not to enter areas in Gaza currently under Israeli control or approach troops.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/several-said-killed-by-idf-fire-in-gaza-military-says-suspicious-vehicle-crossed-ceasefire-line-neared-troops/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-870797
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-870788
https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/katz-orders-idf-to-place-physical-markers-along-boundary-of-yellow-line-in-gaza-480912
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-foiled-another-2-attempts-to-smuggle-weapons-from-egypt-via-drone/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-claim-idf-killed-11-year-old-boy-in-southern-west-bank/
https://www.ifcj.org/news/stand-for-israel-blog/idf-confirms-elimination-of-houthi-terror-chief
https://chronik.fr/1665-humanity-is-about-to-make-underwater-history-the-first-ever-submarine-drone-to-circumnavigate-the-globe/
https://www.teledynemarine.com/
Humanity Is About to Make Underwater History: The First Ever Submarine Drone to Circumnavigate the Globe
17 October 2025 at 7:00 am
It’s barely over 2.5 meters long, weighs in at a mere 171 kilograms, and yet it’s about to make a splash in maritime history—not with waves, but with data.
Move over Magellan: 503 years after the first circumnavigation of Earth, a cheerful little undersea drone named Redwing is poised to write a new chapter in human exploration. And honestly, for a robot with no arms or propellers, that’s quite the flex.
Meet Redwing: The Submarine Revolution We Didn’t Know We Needed
Redwing isn’t your classic submarine—no propeller, no “swimming” in the usual sense. Developed by Teledyne Marine in partnership with Rutgers University in New Jersey, Redwing is an oceanic glider that zips (well, glides) by cunningly altering its buoyancy.
Thanks to an internal piston filled with compressed gas, Redwing can make itself heavier or lighter than the surrounding water. Heavier? It sinks gracefully down to 1,000 meters. Lighter? It rises slowly to the surface.
This up-and-down, sawtooth movement moves Redwing forward at a modest 0.75 knots (a whopping 1.3 km/h—don’t try racing your goldfish).
No fuel, no noise, and hardly any resistance: Redwing rides the ocean currents like a stealthy underwater sailboat.
Should it veer off track, tiny reserve propellers can gently nudge its course, but these are for special occasions only—think of them as the submarine equivalent of training wheels.
The Five-Year Quest: Unprecedented Ambitions
Oceanic gliders have existed since the 1990s, but none has ever attempted a journey quite like this.
Most gliders don’t have Redwing’s secret weapon: oversized batteries crammed into its streamlined hull, granting almost two years of continuous operation before a scheduled pit stop at the halfway mark for a battery swap.
Engineers are counting on patience, precision engineering, and a touch of good luck.
Each day, a team composed of Teledyne Webb Research scientists and Rutgers students will communicate with Redwing by satellite. The glider surfaces twice daily, beams up its precious data, and receives its next navigation orders.
This mission isn’t rushed. Redwing is set to spend five years tracing a path around the world—73,000 kilometers and thousands of oceanographic measurement points later, the world will never see the global ocean in quite the same way.
Charting Magellan’s Wake, Gathering Ocean Secrets
Redwing’s itinerary is anything but impulsive. Much like its famed predecessor, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, this submarine will follow a global loop: departing from America’s eastern coast, passing the Canary Islands, Cape Town, Western Australia, New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, and possibly Brazil, before returning to Cape Cod. Every stop has purpose: these are underexplored zones where temperature, salinity, and currents remain tantalizingly mysterious.
Redwing’s instruments will gather these parameters non-stop, providing a tidal wave of treasured data for climatologists and oceanographers.
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What makes Redwing such a resilient explorer?
It spends most of its time well below the surface, shielded from storms and waves.
It faces more danger from fishing nets, cargo ships, sharks, and an unlikely nemesis: algae.
“Biofouling”—when algae, micro-organisms, and barnacles latch onto the hull—could weigh Redwing down and doom the mission.
Sharks, sometimes lured by the glider’s acoustic signals, have been known to get personally involved. Alexander Phillips of the National Oceanography Centre in the UK recalls that some gliders have been lost to bites (proving even robots aren’t safe from curious sea life).
But the mission is about more than endurance and survival. Redwing will gather millions of data points on temperature, currents, and water density from regions rarely visited by ships.
These measurements, shared live with universities and schools worldwide, may help scientists unravel the ocean’s role in climate change.
Science, Patience—and a Human Touch
Redwing is an ambassador for the patient, economical, and discreet science that doesn’t guzzle fuel by the ton. Unlike the large oceanographic ships that roam the seas with crew and heavy engines, Redwing glides solo, borne along by physics and smart sensors.
In Teledyne Marine’s offices, the team tracks its journey with the same anticipation reserved for a valued crew member. On their screens, Redwing is a blinking dot somewhere between continents, watched over day and night by diligent Rutgers students.
Should it succeed, Redwing will claim the title as the first underwater robot to circumnavigate the globe. It won’t be fast, flashy, or noisy—but in its stubborn, silent way, it might just carry the future of oceanography on its sleek little hull.
Over the last few years, a number of autonomous vehicles have quietly pushed the limits of underwater exploration.
Before Redwing, there were unheralded pioneers: in 2009, the American glider Scarlet Knight RU27, also developed by Rutgers, crossed the Atlantic in 221 days, making the first such journey from New Jersey to Galicia.
Two years later, “Silbo,” a Seaglider created by Teledyne Webb Research and the University of the Azores, made a 6,000 kilometer Atlantic crossing, proving the robustness of long-distance automation systems.
In 2011, the PacX Wave Glider, by Liquid Robotics of California, completed a 16,000 kilometer trek from San Francisco to Australia, powered by nothing but waves and sunshine.
They’re not turbo-charged or showy, but their endurance stuns: these ocean robots can roam for months or years without human intervention. Each has paved the way for Redwing’s round-the-world odyssey.
Will Redwing make it? History is watching—and somewhere, so is Magellan, perhaps a little jealous. The future of ocean science may just be gliding patiently beneath the waves, in a package that fits comfortably behind your sofa.
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UFO? Military operation? Questions surround balloon seen above Colorado mountains
Updated: Oct 17, 2025 / 11:04 AM EDT
Colorado is no stranger to strange objects floating or flying across the sky (remember “Balloon Boy” from October 2009?), and many residents wanted answers for a strange balloon seen floating across the state on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service said it was a Stratollite balloon, owned by a private company in New Mexico that launches high-altitude balloons for research.
The Moffat County Sheriff’s Office also reported that residents had spotted the balloon just south of Craig.
Nexstar’s KDVR was able to find the balloon on the flight-tracking website FlightAware, showing that the balloon had drifted toward the Boulder County region on Tuesday before heading west to about Routt County and heading south-southwest toward the Four Corners region on Wednesday.
Phil Wocken, vice president of World View Enterprises, Inc., told KDVR via email that the balloon seen over Colorado on Tuesday had launched 42 days prior from the company’s headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.
“That is one of our Stratollites, which is a fancy name we give to one of our stratospheric high-altitude balloon systems.
Some people label these as weather balloons because that’s what’s familiar,” Wocken said. “But the technology and capabilities are so much more advanced.”
Wocken said the balloon navigates and persists in the stratosphere by navigating the four-directional winds at different altitudes.
He said that advanced flight modeling and forecasting tell the researchers exactly what altitudes the balloon needs to fly in to “catch” the winds for a desired direction.
“We’ll then increase and decrease altitude thousands of times during a flight to navigate the system,” Wocken said.
The balloon floating over Colorado is a research and development flight on which World View Enterprises is testing “next-generation materials and avionics to advance our flight capabilities,” according to the company.
Wocken said that because Hurricane Priscilla remnants were impacting southwestern states, the company navigated the balloon into Colorado for a few days before taking it back to southern Arizona.
He added that due to the company’s proximity to Colorado, flights launched in Arizona sometimes navigate into the Centennial State.
In fact, almost exactly a year ago, a similar balloon was reported flying over the Denver metro. That balloon was also from World View Enterprises, which was carrying a payload for NASA at the time.
The Moffat County Sheriff’s Office noted that the weather balloons typically fly between 75,000 and 100,000 feet in altitude, which makes them rarely visible to those on the ground.
https://fox56news.com/news/nation-world/ufo-military-operation-questions-surround-balloon-seen-above-colorado-mountains/
Michael Salla
@MichaelSalla
Something well worth considering. There is an ET connection to the Q movement that red pilled hundreds of millions in 2017.
Red Collie (Dr. Horace Drew) scientist/inventor
@RedCollie1
Just to inform everyone, in case you didn't know (something I have known since 2015): "Q" is a military strategist from the Pleaides.
He also runs the "Mr. Pool" crypto and E.T. crop-circle teams. He has been tasked with defending humans on Earth from an upcoming, alien-takeover attempt by the EBEN grey aliens.
"GOD VERSUS SATAN"
Recently 3I/2025 has appeared, so that is in all probability where the attack will come from (as well as from undersea or underground alien bases).
He calls it the "STORM". Some crop pictures show him warning us about a "STORM". "Mr. Pool" has described it in several videos or coded texts.
"Q" also said: "Trump, US military and patriots will save humanity". Plan to save the world. Indeed. Certain crop pictures suggest 2026 or 2027.
I don't care whether you believe me or not, but have written this, so that some of you will be ready when it suddenly begins, and not become helpless, like a deer in car headlights.
PRAY. ✝️🕉️✡️☪️
"Arrogant belief must allow all".
Trump has now made peace across the entire world, so that we can all fight together (like in the movie "Independence Day", that "Q" also posted).
3:50 AM · Oct 14, 2025
https://x.com/MichaelSalla/status/1978267049957675172
https://x.com/RedCollie1/status/1978050833259634969
Drone "Motherships” Now Over Europe and Virtual Access to the 2025 Sol Symposium | Sol Briefing
Oct 16, 2025
In this October 2025 Sol Briefing, Marik von Rennenkampff covers the latest wave of "Drone" incursions over Europe, including airport shutdowns in Copenhagen and Munich, and their eerie similarities to past UAP “mothership” incidents in the U.S. Midwest and near military sites.
00:00 Recent UAP incursions across Europe
02:20 Unknown objects over Germany and Belgium
04:15 Comparing European UAP activity to earlier U.S. cases
05:40 The “mothership” dynamic explained
07:00 Similar flight patterns in UAP swarms (Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska)
09:45 UAP near U.S. nuclear missile sites
11:10 UAP swarms and UAPDA
12:20 Sol Foundation Virtual 2025 Symposium announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQyO8o8zqHc
https://x.com/_SolFoundation
https://x.com/MvonRen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDttfw2r2K0 (MASSIVE UFO Disclosure Development In European Parliament Oct 16, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbgoPb7E6E (Joachim Dekkers 🇳🇱 "We are bringing UAP witnesses to EU meetings…" | European UAP Talk #9 Oct 16, 2025)