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Two X Class Solar Flares/Solar Storms Heading At Earth | S0 News and other goodies
Nov.10.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9AeSk-9_qI
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/1987897010033250739
https://www.space.com/stargazing/auroras/aurora-alert-sun-fires-off-2-colossal-x-flares-as-multiple-cmes-race-toward-earth
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/did-3i-atlas-just-break-up-near-the-sun-c27f7479f3e0
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-remarkable-large-scale-structure-of-anti-tail-and-tail-jets-from-3i-atlas-242c534cf7b3
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/what-do-you-believe-about-extraterrestrial-intelligent-life-beyond-earth-272093f2a3e4
https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/10/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-aka-c-2025-n1-atlas-a-new-image-with-tail-10-nov-2025/
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-shrinks-bizarre-development-leaves-experts-puzzled-interstellar-object-disintegrates-1753638
https://usaherald.com/new-cosmic-visitor-c-2025-v1-discovered-days-after-3i-atlas-perihelion-astronomers-probe-possible-links-uncover-intriguing-clues/
https://www.youtube.com/@DobsonianPower
https://www.youtube.com/@TheAngryAstronaut
Did 3I/ATLAS Just Break-Up Near the Sun?
November 10, 2025
Let me start this quantitative discussion with the conservative assumption that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, and work out its properties based on its latest post-perihelion image.
The large-scale image of 3I/ATLAS reported here on November 9, 2029 shows multiple jets reaching out to ~1 million kilometers towards the Sun and ~3 million kilometers in the opposite direction, as discussed here.
For a natural comet, the outflow velocity of the jets is expected to be 0.4 kilometers per second, of order the sound speed of gas at the distance of 3I/ATLAS from the Sun. At that speed, the jets must have persisted over a timescale of 1–3 months.
Given that the jets towards the Sun were stopped by the solar wind at a distance of a million kilometers, I calculated here that their mass density is a few million proton masses per cubic centimeter at a distance of a million kilometers from 3I/ATLAS.
The product of this mass density and the outflow speed, implies a mass flux of 5 billion tons per month per area of a million-kilometer on a side. I calculated here that the total mass associated with 3I/ATLAS is at least 33 billion tons based on its early dynamics.
Adopting an outer surface area for the jetted material of order a million-kilometer squared, I find that 3I/ATLAS may have lost ~16% of its mass.
This is consistent with the mass fraction required by its non-gravitational acceleration at perihelion, as I calculated here.
Are these numbers consistent with the energy provided to 3I/ATLAS by the Sun?
The sublimation of carbon dioxide (CO2) ice requires 600 Joules per gram, nearly 5 times less than the sublimation of water (H2O) ice which is 2,835 Joules per gram.
The Webb telescope spectroscopic data (reported here) indicated that when 3I/ATLAS was 2.4 times farther from the Sun than its perihelion distance, 87% of the mass of gas around it was CO2.
In order to supply 5 billion tons of CO2 over the perihelion passage period of a month, 3I/ATLAS must have received at least 3x10^{18} Joules to sublimate this much CO2 mass.
At its perihelion distance, the Sun provided 700 Joules per square meter per second. This means that the absorbing area of 3I/ATLAS must have been larger than 1,600 square kilometers.
This is the area of a sphere with a diameter of 23 kilometers, 4 times larger than the maximum diameter of 5.6 kilometers inferred for 3I/ATLAS from the imaging data of the Hubble Space telescope (reported here). The required diameter is 51 kilometers for water ice.
“Houston, we have a problem” with the natural comet hypothesis!
The required surface area of 3I/ATLAS to provide the inferred mass loss from the latest post-perihelion image, is at least 16 times larger than the upper limit derived here from its Hubble image on July 21, 2025.
When the Webb data was taken on August 6, 2025, 3I/ATLAS lost only 150 kilograms per second. The mass loss at perihelion derived above is 4 orders of magnitude larger, about 2 million kilograms per second.
This is a dramatic increase, requiring a power-law dependence of mass loss on distance from the Sun with a power-law index of -10.5, consistent with the rapid perihelion brightening of 3I/ATLAS reported here.
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Was the dramatic mass loss and brightening of 3I/ATLAS at perihelion evidence that it disintegrated? Breakup into fragments would have increased the surface area of its material.
Since the surface-to-mass ratio scales inversely with the characteristic radius of fragments, an increase in surface area by a minimum factor of 16 requires that 3I/ATLAS broke into at least 16 equal pieces, and likely many more.
This would mean that 3I/ATLAS exploded at perihelion and we are witnessing the resulting fireworks. In other words, the latest image implies that 3I/ATLAS was decimated by heating from the Sun if it is a natural comet.
The tidal force of the Sun is expected to separate the fragments in the coming weeks, creating an appearance similar to that of the comet Shoemaker-Levi 9 in 1994 near Jupiter. I discussed this possible outcome a month ago here.
However, if upcoming observations would reveal that 3I/ATLAS was not decimated by the Sun and maintained its integrity as a single body, then we will have to consider that it is something other than a natural comet.
On December 19, 2025, 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth, allowing ground-based telescopes as well as the Hubble and Webb space telescope to diagnose its integrity.
Separately from the required breakup for a natural comet, the large diameter of 3I/ATLAS highlights the first anomaly that I pointed out in my first paper on 3I/ATLAS, published here.
The inferred mass of 3I/ATLAS is over a million times more than the inferred mass of 1I/Oumuamua. Why had we found such a giant object before witnessing a million objects of the size of 1I/Oumuamua?
As I showed in my paper, there is not enough rocky material in interstellar space to accommodate the delivery of such a giant icy rock to the inner solar system over our survey period of a decade.
We would expect an object with a diameter above 10 kilometers to be delivered to our vicinity once per ten thousand years or longer.
This anomaly has a likelihood of less than 0.1% if all rocky materials are packaged in large bodies of 3I/ATLAS’ size or less than 0.0005% if there is equal amount of total mass per logarithmic package mass interval.
Combine that with the 0.2% probability of the retrograde trajectory of 3I/ATLAS being aligned to within 5 degrees with the ecliptic plane, and you get a chance of one in a hundred million for 3I/ATLAS to originate from a familiar astrophysical origin.
Technological thrusters require a much smaller mass loss in order to produce the observed jets around 3I/ATLAS.
Chemical rockets are propelled by an exhaust speed of 3–5 kilometers per second, which is ten times larger than the maximum ejection speed of volatiles sublimated by sunlight from natural cometary surfaces.
Ion thrusters reach an even higher ejection speed of 10–50 kilometers per second. Alien-tech thrusters might employ yet higher exhaust speeds, reducing the required mass loss by several orders of magnitude and making the required fuel a small of the spacecraft mass.
Upcoming spectroscopic observations will determine the velocity, mass flux and composition of the jets of 3I/ATLAS. Stay curious!
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>Going to send smaller ships to Earth soon?
3I/ATLAS 'Dropped Probes' on 'Perfect' Trajectory to Earth, New Claim Alleges
10 November 2025, 12:20 PM GMT
A viral social media post has reignited debate about whether interstellar objects could harbour alien technology, after suggesting that 3I/ATLAS released 'probes' on a perfect course to Earth — a claim experts say has no scientific basis.
Viral Post Fuels Speculation About 'Perfect' Trajectory
On 10 November 2025, the astronomy-focused account @AstronomyVibes posted a graphic on X (formerly Twitter) showing 3I/ATLAS's orbital path through the Solar System.
The image's green line appeared 'too perfect' to some users, leading to speculation that the object had deployed smaller crafts expected to reach Earth by early 2028.
The post quickly garnered over 30,000 views and sparked comparisons with ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor detected in 2017, which also inspired theories about its non-natural origins.
However, astronomers have since dismissed the latest claims as baseless conjecture amplified by social media.
NASA and ESA Dismiss Artificial Hypothesis
According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 3I/ATLAS follows a hyperbolic trajectory typical of interstellar comets and poses no threat to Earth.
It will make its closest approach on 19 December 2025, at a distance of roughly 268 million kilometres. The agency reports no unusual acceleration or manoeuvring consistent with artificial propulsion.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has likewise confirmed that observed motion patterns align with natural comet behaviour.
Experts explain that any apparent precision in its course likely results from outgassing — the release of gas and dust as the object warms while approaching the Sun.
The Origin of the Probe Claim
The viral post's author claimed that the timing and angle of 3I/ATLAS's path 'almost feels planned,' suggesting fragments or probes could reach Earth by 2028.
The visual showed a green arc connecting the comet's orbit with Earth's, prompting online users to speculate about artificial intent.
However, space analysts quickly clarified that such alignments are common coincidences when plotting orbital projections.
'The geometry may look uncanny,' wrote one researcher in response, 'but planetary mechanics often produce patterns that seem too perfect to be random.'
No peer-reviewed studies, observatory data, or official briefings have reported any secondary bodies or anomalies near 3I/ATLAS.
What Scientists Know About 3I/ATLAS
Discovered in July 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever identified after ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019).
Its highly eccentric path confirms it originated outside our Solar System.
In October, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb acknowledged the object's composition, notably its nickel-rich, low-water makeup, is 'unusual but not unprecedented.'
While Loeb has encouraged open-minded research into possible artificial origins of interstellar debris, he reiterated that 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'
NASA continues to monitor 3I/ATLAS through ground-based telescopes and international observatories.
Updated trajectory data will be published following the perihelion, the point closest to the Sun, which is expected in late October 2025.
For now, 3I/ATLAS remains what scientists say it has always been: a rare visitor from beyond the Solar System, mysterious, but still firmly within the realm of natural cosmic behaviour.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-dropped-probes-perfect-trajectory-earth-new-claim-alleges-1753773
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-velocity-shift-fuels-deployed-companions-rumours-1753589
https://x.com/AstronomyVibes
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/alien-activity-experts-explain-why-3i-atlas-comets-debris-plume-not-visible-1753766
Scrub! Cumulus clouds thwart Blue Origin's rocket launch try on NASA mission at Cape Canaveral
November 9, 2025 5:59 p.m. ET
Scrub recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Sunday, Nov. 9, scrubbed launch attempt of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral on the NASA ESCAPADE mission.
Original story: Prepare for Blue Origin to launch a mighty 321-foot New Glenn heavy-lift rocket this afternoon from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station!
After rainy weather swept across the northern Cape this afternoon, Blue Origin officials are now targeting 4:12 p.m. for liftoff.
Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of Blue Origin's NG-2 mission.
The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron forecast called for 65% odds of "go for launch" weather early during this window, worsening to 55% by the end as a cold front approaches Florida.
Cumulus clouds, surface electric fields and anvil clouds loom as potential mission threats, coupled with a low-to-moderate risk of solar activity.
The New Glenn will rise from Launch Complex 36 and propel NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft on their journey to Mars.
After soaring skyward along an easterly trajectory, the rocket's 188-foot first-stage booster will target landing aboard Blue Origin's drone ship Jacklyn about 375 miles away in the Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.floridatoday.com/live-story/tech/science/space/2025/11/09/blue-origin-launch-day-heres-information-on-todays-rocket-launch-from-cape-canaveral-florida/87180765007/
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/blue-origin-new-glenn-escapade-mars-launch-webcast
https://x.com/blueorigin/status/1987673041296371978
https://www.youtube.com/@blueorigin
Hubble Sees Peculiar Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1511
Nov 10, 2025
NGC 1511 resides approximately 50 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Hydrus.
This spiral galaxy was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel on November 2, 1834.
Otherwise known ESO 55-4, IRAS 03594-6746 or LEDA 14236, NGC 1511 is the central member of a small group of galaxies called the NGC 1511 group.
“Like many galaxies, NGC 1511 doesn’t travel through space alone,” the Hubble astronomers said in a statement.
“Instead, it does so with a pair of small galactic companions called NGC 1511A and NGC 1511B, both of which lie outside the frame of this Hubble image.”
“NGC 1511B is situated closest to NGC 1511, and the two galaxies have apparently clashed in the past,” they noted.
“A narrow strand of hydrogen gas connects them, and NGC 1511B has been stretched and distorted by the encounter.”
Astronomers have even found evidence that NGC 1511 once had another small companion galaxy that it has disrupted entirely.
“These disruptions have an impact on NGC 1511, too,” the researchers said.
“The galaxy is experiencing a burst of star formation, and its disk features strange loops and plumes that could point to past interactions with its neighboring galaxies.”
“We will use Hubble’s keen observations of NGC 1511 to study star clusters embedded within its dusty gas, seeking to understand how matter is cycled from interstellar clouds to stars and back to clouds once again.”
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/hubble-peculiar-spiral-galaxy-ngc-1511-14340.html
https://simbad.cds.unistra.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=NGC+1511
>Holy shit. I missed the whole point. This is their alien card because they’re finna go down.
chekt crazy 88's
Unmask em!
Exposure is disclosure.
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Discovery_and_Preparation/Made_in_microgravity_catalysts_for_life_in_space
https://activities.esa.int/4000142571
Made in microgravity – catalysts for life in space
10/11/2025
To sustain a human presence on the Moon or Mars, we need to develop technologies that can use local resources like water to produce oxygen and hydrogen that can be used as fuels and for life support.
On Earth, electrolysis can split water into these essential gases, but our current technology is too energy-intensive and prone to failure for reliable use in space missions.
A recent project, co-funded by ESA Discovery, investigated whether fabricating water-splitting catalysts in microgravity could provide a more efficient solution.
The project, 'Synthesis of nanocatalysts for solar energy conversion in reduced gravitational environments' focused on photoelectrochemical systems - devices that combine solar energy capture with electrolysis to split water directly using sunlight - and was carried out by researchers at the University of Bremen.
Their work tackles the fundamental challenge of how we learn to live sustainably beyond Earth, exploring whether the unique conditions of space itself could help us manufacture better materials for survival.
Tackling the electrolysis problem
Electrolysis – using electricity to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen – is a well-established process, but it faces a persistent problem in space applications. As the gases form during the reaction, they create bubbles on the catalyst surface that act as insulators.
"The first layer of bubbles created during the electrolysis process are acting as an insulator, impeding the process", explains ESA's Sebastien Vincent-Bonnieu “Each time you perform it, at the beginning everything works well, but then you create a bubble layer, and it doesn't work anymore.”
The Bremen team's approach tackles this problem with innovative nanostructured surface designs – surfaces engineered at the molecular level with features thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair.
Rather than trying to prevent bubble formation, their system creates precisely engineered geometries that allow gas bubbles to form and detach continuously from specific points on the catalyst surface.
This prevents the insulating bubble layer from building up, enabling the electrolysis process to run indefinitely rather than stopping after the initial gas formation.
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Making Better Catalysts in Microgravity
The nanostructured surfaces act as catalysts – materials that speed up chemical reactions without being consumed in the process.
In electrolysis, the catalyst's job is to facilitate the splitting of water molecules, and the more surface area available for reactions, the more efficient the process becomes.
This is where microgravity offers a unique advantage. When nanoparticles form in the absence of gravity, they can achieve higher surface-to-bulk ratios and superior crystallinity compared to those made on Earth.
The Bremen team used a process called photoelectrodeposition – using sunlight to grow nanoparticles from chemical precursors directly onto semiconductor surfaces – to create these catalysts in microgravity conditions using facilities like the Bremen Drop Tower.
"During the deposition process, the material starts as a solid and experiences a change of phase.
On the ground, gravity enables immediate deposition, but in microgravity the only process that can make things stick together is the chemical bond," explains Prof. Katharina Brinkert from the University of Bremen.
"Microgravity tests help us to understand the process, but we also want to make it work under those space conditions so that we can launch it on a spacecraft."
From research to reality
The microgravity tests have shown promising results - the catalyst materials that were developed are at least as active as the terrestrially synthesised ones.
The technology's potential extends beyond space exploration. "This technology can be used on Earth first and then brought into space.
Furthermore, photoelectrodeposition principle for nanomaterial synthesis and surface functionalisation could also help in other applications" explains Vincent-Bonnieu.
More efficient electrolysis systems could significantly improve hydrogen production and energy storage on Earth, contributing to renewable energy efforts before eventually supporting space missions.
For future lunar and Mars exploration, the vision is ambitious: solar panel-like devices that directly convert sunlight and locally sourced water into the oxygen and fuel needed for human survival.
Such systems would represent a crucial step towards the sustainable space exploration that missions to other worlds will require – where the resources needed to sustain human life can be produced locally rather than shipped from Earth.
The project originated through ESA's Open Space Innovation Platform and was co-funded by the Discovery element of ESA's Basic Activities, representing a step towards the autonomous operations capability that future lunar and planetary exploration will require.
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In a first, scientists prove quantum beams could be sent from Earth to orbit
Nov 10, 2025 05:32 AM EST
Quantum satellites are used to send light particles from space to multiple ground stations to create ultra-secure communication links.
However, research conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has revealed that these light beams can also be sent from Earth to space.
Until now, quantum communication has been limited to downlinks. This method is secure and forms the basis of quantum-encrypted communications.
Tracking previous progress
China launched the Micius satellite in 2016, making its first major move in quantum communications. This move enabled landmark experiments in space-based quantum encryption.
In 2025, the progress continued with the Jinan-1 microsatellite establishing a 12,900-kilometer quantum link between China and South Africa, setting a new distance record.
“Current quantum satellites create entangled pairs in space and then send each half of the pair down to two places on Earth – called a ‘downlink’,” said Professor Alexander Solntsev, a member of the team.
“It’s mostly used for cryptography, where only a few photons (particles of light) are needed to generate a secret key,” he continued.
This breakthrough opens the door to building stronger, more flexible quantum communication networks, eventually creating a global quantum internet.
Reversing the flow
The idea of an uplink approach wasn’t on the agenda initially, with scientists thinking that it wouldn’t work due to signal loss, interference, and scattering. However, Professor Devitt and team demonstrated a method to show that the opposite approach is possible.
“The idea is to fire two single particles of light from separate ground stations to a satellite orbiting 500 km above Earth, travelling at about 20,000 km per hour, so that they meet so perfectly as to undergo quantum interference,” Professor Devitt explained.
“Surprisingly, our modelling showed that an uplink is feasible. We included real-world effects such as background light from the earth and sunlight reflections from the Moon, atmospheric effects, and the imperfect alignment of optical systems,” he said.
According to researchers, the uplink concept could be used to build future quantum networks across different geographies using small low-orbit satellites.
The team incorporated real-world problems into their model, including background light from the Earth, reflections from the Moon, atmospheric effects, and slight misalignments in optical systems.
Despite these challenges, the model demonstrated that an uplink connection is feasible.
Building the quantum internet
“A quantum internet is a very different beast from current nascent cryptographic applications. It’s the same primary mechanism, but you need significantly more photons – more bandwidth – to connect quantum computers,” said Professor Devitt.
The uplink approach could deliver the high bandwidth needed for quantum networks because satellites would only require small optical units to process incoming photons, instead of carrying heavy quantum light-generating hardware.
This makes the system lighter, cheaper, and more practical. In the long term, the researchers believe quantum entanglement will become a basic utility, much like electricity, quietly powering devices and networks behind the scenes.
https://interestingengineering.com/space/in-a-first-scientists-prove-quantum-beams-could-be-sent-from-earth-to-orbit
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/v3p1-kz4h
US Military Ramps Up Efforts to Jam Chinese and Russian Satellites
November 9, 2025
The two new anti-satellite weapons are ready to jam intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites.
The US Space Force has found a way to disable Chinese and Russian satellites in the event of a conflict.
In response to increasingly more powerful near-peer space and anti-space capabilities, especially from China, the US military is fielding two new weapons designed to jam Chinese and Russian satellites.
New Anti-Satellite Weapons
The new anti-satellite systems are called Meadowlands and the Remote Modular Terminal (RMT).
They join the operational Counter Communications System that has been active since 2020 and is designed to assert US superiority in the electromagnetic spectrum during a near-peer conflict.
The two new anti-satellite weapons are specifically designed to jam intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites.
Developed by L3 Harris Technologies, the Meadowland is undergoing live-fire testing and final evaluation before it becomes operational within fiscal year 2025.
Conversely, the RMT, which was developed by Northstrat and CACI International, is already operational and is being deployed overseas.
The Space Force will disperse the new counter-satellite systems across the world in undisclosed locations to increase their survivability.
Moreover, the new weapon systems come with a remote operation capability. According to reports, the Space Force plans to purchase up to 32 Meadowlands and 24 RMTs.
Chinese Space Capabilities
In April, during a hearing titled “China’s Ambitions in Space,” Space Force general B. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force’s chief of space operations, stated that “from a military perspective, Beijing understands that the space domain is a key enabler of long-range precision strike as well as of information gathering and dissemination, which makes it foundational to the projection of national power.”
China possesses the second-largest operational fleet behind the United States. And Beijing is ambitious to surpass the United States and claim supremacy in space.
China has over 1,200 satellites in active service, a number that is increasing every year.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Aerospace Force, which was established in 2024, has approximately 510 Earth-observing satellites with optical, multispectral, radar, and radio frequency sensors.
These satellites are designed to detect and track the movements of adversary military forces.
“Intelligence suggests the PLA likely sees counterspace operations as a means to deter and counter U.S. military intervention in a regional conflict,” Saltzman stated.
The Chinese military is developing missiles that can physically attack US satellites in space, as well as ground-based laser weapon systems designed to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellite sensors.
A Changing Environment
Space has changed considerably over the past four decades.
Satellites have gone from providing services like navigation, weather monitoring, communications, positioning, intelligence collection, and advanced missile warning and tracking to being critical to modern life.
Today, satellites are necessary for a wide range of human interactions, including transportation, farming, internet and cellular communication, and financial transactions.
“Today, if you’ve checked for rain in the forecast, made a purchase with your credit card, or sent a text message, you have already called upon a satellite to make it happen, whether you knew it or not.
Simply put, space matters more and more every single day,” Saltzman stated. The new counter-satellite weapons are just a step in the right direction in countering China’s ambitious space program.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-military-ramps-up-efforts-to-jam-chinese-and-russian-satellites-sa-110625
Navy eyes enabling technologies for C4ISR and cyber warfare for operations from seabed to space
Nov. 10, 2025
Key Highlights
Questions and answers:
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What is the main focus of the upcoming S2ISR project by NIWC Pacific? Developing enabling technologies for information warfare, including systems for communications, surveillance, security, and countering enemy threats across air, land, sea, and space.
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What types of systems will the S2ISR project involve? Uncrewed systems, cyber security, algorithms, data processing, and technologies for surveillance, automated communications, and tactical data networks.
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What is the expected timeline for the request for proposal (RFP) for the S2ISR project? The final RFP is expected to be released no earlier than 21 Nov. 2025, and will be available online via the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website.
SAN DIEGO – U.S. Navy researchers are preparing to approach industry for new enabling technologies for information warfare; command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR); offensive and defensive cyber warfare; and space systems.
Officials of the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific in San Diego issued a notice (N66001-26-R-0019) on Thursday for the upcoming Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Systems and Information Operations (IO) from Seabed to Space (S2ISR) project.
NIWC Pacific intends to issue a request for proposal (RFP) later this month for the S2ISR project that involves enabling the Navy to develop enabling technologies in communications, surveillance, and security to accommodate advances in technology and counter enemy threats.
Integrated C4ISR
NIWC Pacific is responsible for research and development in information warfare that involves integrated C4ISR systems, offensive and defensive cyber warfare; and life cycle management of fielded systems such as uncrewed underwater, surface, and aerial systems; large data management, antenna design, and renewable energy.
The S2ISR project will ask several different contractors to develop algorithms; data processing; hardware and software development; testing; repair; engineering; configuration management; maintenance; training; ISR analysis; and cyber security systems.
ISR activities may involve developing uncrewed systems to detect and potentially neutralize chemical, nuclear, biological, and radiological (CNBR) threats. T
hey also will involve surveillance, networks, and tactical data communications like automated radio communications, satellite terminals, and autonomous or non-autonomous ISR systems for use in space, in the air, on land, and on the ocean.
Procurement will result in several contracts with a seven-year ordering period. Security classification will vary from unclassified to top secret and incidental sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI).
NIWC Pacific officials say they expect the final RFP for N6600126R0019 to be released no earlier than 21 Nov. 2025, which will be available electronically under Notice ID N6600126R0019 via the Solicitation Module within the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) website online at https://piee.eb.mil/.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/55328763/c4isr-and-cyber-warfare-from-seabed-to-space
Volcano belches ash over Chile
Nov. 10, 2025
On Oct. 25, 2025, Europe's Sentinel‑2 satellite mission captured a striking image of the Planchón-Peteroa volcanic complex, located on the border between Chile and Argentina, emitting a plume of ash and volcanic gas rising roughly 1,970 feet (600 meters) above the crater.
The ash plume drifted north‐northwest initially and then, under changing wind conditions, veered eastward across the Argentine side.
What is it?
The Sentinel-2 satellites, developed and operated by the European Space Agency, use high-resolution optical imaging to monitor land surfaces, coastal zones and inland waters.
There are currently three Sentinel-2 satellites in orbit — Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-2C, which launched in 2015, 2017 and 2024, respectively.
They're part of the European Union's Copernicus Earth-observation program, whose first satellite (Sentinel-1A) launched in 2014.
Where is it?
The Planchón-Peteroa complex sits in the Andes mountain range, at a high altitude in a region dominated by snow‐covered peaks and volcanic terrain.
Why is it amazing?
Because the Planchón-Peteroa volcanic complex is remote, rugged and spans two countries, satellite imagery plays a vital role in monitoring volcanic activity, ash dispersal and potential impacts on air pollution, local communities and the environment.
The snow-covered ground enhances the visibility of the ash plume as it drifts across the landscape, allowing for better tracking by the ESA satellite.
With the ash crossing from Chile into Argentina, the image shows how volcanic events do not respect national boundaries — and international monitoring systems like Copernicus are key.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/volcano-belches-ash-over-chile-space-photo-of-the-day-for-nov-10-2025
ESA's sun spacecraft captures 1st close-up of our star's magnetic engine in motion
November 10, 2025
In a striking new view from space, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has given scientists their first close-up glimpse of the sun's magnetic field near its south pole — and it is behaving in surprising ways.
The image above, a composite of eight days of observations taken in March when the spacecraft had its first clear view of the region, shows bright arcs sweeping around the pole — glowing traces left by magnetic structures drifting toward the sun's edge at unexpectedly high speeds. The findings reveal the sun's magnetic field is migrating toward its poles much faster than scientists predicted.
"To understand the sun's magnetic cycle, we still lack knowledge of what happens at the sun's poles," Sami Solanki, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany who co-authored the paper, said in a statement.
"Solar Orbiter can now provide this missing piece of the puzzle."
The sun's magnetism runs on a roughly 11-year cycle, during which magnetic fields twist, flip and rebuild, driving everything from sunspots and solar flares to the immense solar storms that can buffet Earth.
At the heart of this cycle lies a slow-moving "magnetic conveyor belt" of plasma currents that carry magnetic field lines from the equator toward the poles near the surface, then back toward the equator deep inside the sun, the statement says.
This global circulation sustains the sun's magnetic field, but its polar regions, which are crucial to the process, have long remained a mystery.
From Earth, the sun's poles are nearly impossible to study directly. Astronomers can only glimpse them edge-on, and most past spacecraft have orbited close to the sun's equatorial plane, leaving its poles largely unexplored.
That changed in March 2025, when Solar Orbiter tilted its orbit by 17 degrees, giving researchers their first direct look over the sun's southern limb.
In the new study, Solanki and his team analyzed data from two of Solar Orbiter's key instruments: the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) and the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), which together map how hot plasma and magnetic fields move across the solar surface. Those images zoned in on the chromosphere, where the magnetic network leaves imprints that appear as bright, elongated arcs, tracing the motion of magnetic structures as the sun rotates.
The results reveal that supergranules, which are enormous bubbles of churning plasma, each two to three times the size of Earth, sweep magnetic fields toward the poles at speeds of 20 to 45 miles per hour (32 to 72 kilometers per hour).
That's almost as fast as similar flows closer to the equator, and much faster than models had predicted, researchers say.
"The supergranules at the poles act as a kind of tracer," Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, a researcher at the institute who led the new study, said in the same statement. "They make the polar component of the sun's global, eleven-year circulation visible for the first time."
This work "heralds a new era" in exploring the sun's polar regions, the authors wrote in the new paper, offering long-awaited data to understand the engine that powers the solar cycle and the magnetic field that shapes the entire solar system.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/esas-sun-spacecraft-captures-1st-close-up-of-our-stars-magnetic-engine-in-motion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae10a3
The Taurid meteor shower could put on its best show this week — keep your eyes peeled for fireballs
November 10, 2025
If the skies are clear these next few nights, take a few moments to look up. You just might be lucky and catch a glimpse of a spectacularly bright meteor — a Taurid meteor streaking across the sky.
While most meteor shower displays last about a week, the Taurids have perhaps the longest duration of overall visibility. Meteors from this particular stream begin appearing in mid-October and continue into right on mid-November.
Nov. 5 through Nov. 12 is traditionally the time frame when these slow and majestic meteors are at their best.
Unfortunately, in 2025, this display has — so far — been seriously hindered by the presence of a brilliant moon. The moon turned full Nov. 5 with brilliant moonlight flooding the sky much of the night, and pretty much washing out all but the brightest meteors.
Thereafter, however, the moon has been setting later in the evening and has been slowly waning in brightness. Last quarter is this coming Wednesday (Nov. 12) and thereafter the moon will be a progressively thinning crescent.
So, with each passing night, the moon has been rising about an hour later and the window of dark sky hours (prior to moonrise) has opened a little wider.
This Wednesday night (Nov. 12) is probably the best night to watch, as there will be about 4 hours of dark, moonless skies to look for Taurids. Moonrise will come just after midnight, early Thursday morning.
Each evening, up until the time the moon comes above the horizon, up to about 15 meteors may appear per hour. They are often yellowish-orange and, as meteors go, appear to move rather slowly.
Their name comes from the way they seem to radiate from the constellation Taurus, the Bull, which sits low in the east a couple of hours after sundown and is almost directly overhead by around 1:30 a.m.
Meteors — popularly referred to as "shooting stars" — are generated when debris enters and burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
In the case of the Taurids, they are attributed to debris left behind by Comet Encke, which are noticeably larger fragments than those shed by other comets, which is why this meteor stream occasionally delivers a few unusually bright meteors known as "fireballs."
Encke's has the shortest known orbital period for a comet, taking only 3.3 years to make one complete trip around the sun. Many fireballs reported in the months of October and November belong to this stream.
A field mark of the Taurids is that they are among the slowest of meteors, encountering Earth at only 17 miles (27 km) per second.
The related meteors appear to diverge from a spot on the sky just to the south of the Pleiades.
So, if during these next few nights, you catch sight of a slightly tinted orange meteor sliding rather lazily away from that famous little smudge of stars, you can feel sure you've just caught sight of a Taurid.
Don't forget the Leonids!
The Taurids are not the only significant meteor display in November. We can also look forward to the famous Leonid meteors, which are due to reach their peak on Tuesday morning, Nov. 18.
The moon will be just a couple of days from new, making this a very favorable year to watch for these ultra-swift streaks of light that will appear to emanate from out of the Sickle of the constellation Leo.
The Sickle is rising in the northeast around midnight and will stand high in the south-southeast at the break of dawn. Unlike the Taurids, the Leonids last less than a week, with maximum hourly counts near 10, though this varies from year to year.
Stupendous meteor storms are possible around the years when the Leonids parent-comet, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, sweeps through the inner solar system. The comet's next visit to the sun's vicinity is not due until the year 2031.
Many meteor experts believe that we'll be in line for another major outburst of Leonids in November 2034. That's nine years from now . . . so mark your calendars.
https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/look-taurid-meteors-fireballs-at-their-best-this-week-november-2025
SpaceX Starlink Mission
November 10, 2025
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the X TV app.
This will be the third flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched KF-01 and IMAP.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-6-87
US shutdown stalls arms deliveries to Ukraine – Axios
9 Nov, 2025 17:30
The US government shutdown has delayed more than $5 billion in arms exports to European NATO members and subsequent transfers to Ukraine, Axios reported on Sunday.
A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in Congress has dragged the shutdown out for 40 days, making it the longest in US history.
“This is actually really harming both our allies and partners and US industry to actually deliver a lot of these critical capabilities overseas,” Axios cited a senior State Department official as saying.
More than $5 billion in arms exports – including AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, HIMARS, and other weapons for European NATO members – have been affected, the outlet added.
The source did not specify the final destination of the arms, but US exports to NATO countries are often transferred to Ukraine, Axios reported.
The delay stems from a lag in congressional approval, as the State Department bureau that normally briefs lawmakers on arms exports is operating with only a quarter of its usual staff, according to the outlet.
The shutdown has also frozen talks between Washington and Kiev on future arms shipments, The Telegraph reported last month.
US President Donald Trump has increasingly pushed European NATO states to take over the burden of supporting Ukraine by buying American-made armaments.
“We send weapons to NATO, and NATO is going to reimburse the full cost of those weapons,” Trump said earlier this year, shortly after European members of the US-led military bloc committed to a 5% of GDP military spending target.
Russia has long condemned the supply of weapons to Ukraine by Western nations, arguing it makes them party to the conflict, which Moscow sees as a NATO-led proxy war.
Such supplies only prolong the fighting but cannot change its outcome, Russia has said.
https://www.rt.com/news/627536-us-shutdown-stalls-arms-ukraine/
Dr. Michio Kaku
@michiokaku
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12:43 AM · Nov 10, 2025
https://x.com/michiokaku/status/1987803185868873918
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE0KbICUV6Q
Zelensky’s office accused of energy damage cover-up
10 Nov, 2025 08:31
Vladimir Zelensky’s office forced a Ukrainian energy company to conceal the severity of damage to its facilities following recent Russian strikes, according to domestic media.
The controversy emerged after a wave of Russian missile and drone attacks last week that targeted what the Defense Ministry in Moscow described as military factories and facilities powering them.
Kiev confirmed the scale of the assault but downplayed its long-term consequences.
The state-owned energy company Centrenergo, which operates two major thermal power plants in Ukraine, posted an emotional statement on Saturday admitting that the strikes had wiped out months of repair work and halted electricity generation entirely.
The message was later replaced with a routine update claiming that restoration efforts are underway as quickly as possible.
According to Ukrainskaya Pravda, the retraction came after direct intervention from the government.
“The [Zelensky] office called and scolded us, asking why we were spreading panic and giving a [propaganda] gift to the Russians,” a company insider told the outlet, which described the reaction as “hysterical.”
The Zelensky administration reportedly puts significant effort into avoiding negative publicity, particularly as Ukraine remains dependent on Western financial and military aid.
Critics within the military have accused the government of prioritizing political narratives over battlefield realities, including preventing tactical withdrawals to preserve its message of steady resistance.
Under martial law, Kiev exerts broad control over the country’s media landscape, which officials justify as necessary for national security.
Long-range strikes on Russian energy infrastructure with domestically-produced kamikaze drones has been a key component of Kiev’s military strategy.
Zelensky has repeatedly pledged to cause blackouts in Moscow and other places to “bring the war” to the Russian people. Moscow says it is retaliating to the Ukrainian approach.
https://www.rt.com/russia/627556-ukrainian-damage-report-suppressed/
Russia says four Ukrainian sea drones sunk in Black Sea port attack
10.11.2025, 03:15
Russian forces have said they destroyed four drone boats during a Ukrainian overnight attack targeting the Black Sea port of Tuapse, a key hub for Russia’s fuel exports.
Located in Russia’s southwestern Krasnodar Krai region, Tuapse is a prime target for Kyiv, as it is a major seaport handling oil and petroleum products, grain, fertilizers, and bulk cargo such as coal and ore.
According to industry sources and ship-tracking data, the port was forced to suspend fuel exports after Ukrainian drone attacks on its infrastructure on November 2.
Now, the local Russian military says it destroyed the four Ukrainian sea drones near the port during an overnight attack on Monday, the Reuters news agency reports.
One of the boats is said to have detonated near the coast, creating shock waves that damaged nearby buildings.
Russian Railways said in response to the incident that it has extended restrictions on cargo deliveries towards Tuapse until November 13.
Targeting Russia’s revenue streams
Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, confirmed that “a fire broke out in the port of Tuapse” overnight, but it is unclear whether the incidents are connected.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that its air defense forces “intercepted” 71 drones overnight, including 29 over Russia’s western Bryansk Oblast, three over occupied Crimea and seven over the Black Sea.
Ukraine’s military reportedly struck a Russian oil depot near the village of Gvardeyskoye in occupied Crimea late on Sunday evening, the Kyiv Independent reports, citing a Russian Telegram media channel.
The oil depot has been subject to repeated Ukrainian attacks in recent months as Kyiv attempts to down Moscow’s primary source of funding for its “war machine.”
https://tvpworld.com/89945855/russia-claims-ukrainian-drone-boats-sunk-in-attack-on-tuapse-black-sea-port
https://kyivindependent.com/explosion-in-russian-black-sea-port-of-tuapse-amid-reported-sea-drone-attack/
other Russia and Ukraine
https://united24media.com/latest-news/drone-attack-ignites-oil-depot-at-vital-railway-junction-inside-russias-rostov-region-13263
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/10/russian-drones-and-bombs-injure-civilians-hit-homes-and-energy-infrastructure-in-nine-oblasts/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/ukraine-s-drone-campaign-cripples-russian-oil-infrastructure/ar-AA1Q9Pf7
https://defence-blog.com/russia-tests-new-archangel-drone-interceptor/
https://united24media.com/latest-news/owl-vs-drone-ukrainian-bird-takes-down-russian-quadcopter-mid-flight-video-13272
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-update-2025-11-10/
Israel says decisions on Gaza will be made with US as Netanyahu meets with Kushner
November 10, 2025 Updated:06:07
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior U.S. envoy Jared Kushner discussed steps to fully disarm Hamas, demilitarize the Gaza Strip, and ensure the group never again plays a governing role there, an Israeli government spokesperson said Monday.
The spokesperson added that any decision on Gaza will be made in collaboration with the Trump administration.
U.S. officials are pressing Israel to allow a negotiated “safe passage” for some 200 terrorists trapped under Rafah rather than seek their elimination, Israeli officials said.
One proposal under discussion would see them surrender, lay down their arms, and receive clemency or deportation while the tunnels they occupy are destroyed, people briefed on the talks said.
The diplomatic push gained momentum during Kushner’s visit to Israel this week.
Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a key architect of the recent ceasefire arrangement, met Netanyahu and other senior officials to press Washington’s preferred approach, U.S. and Israeli sources said.
“A lot of pressure is being applied from the U.S.,” a senior Israeli official said. “Given that, it’s hard to imagine we will simply eliminate them. The assessment is this could be solved by an agreement.”
The issue took on new urgency after the return of the remains of Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier held by Hamas for more than 11 years. Washington officials hope Goldin’s repatriation broadened Netanyahu’s political room to accept a negotiated outcome, Israeli officials said.
A senior Turkish official said late Sunday that Ankara is working to secure “safe passage” for about 200 people trapped in a tunnel enclave in Rafah’s Jenina neighborhood, and cited Turkey’s role in facilitating Goldin’s return.
“We successfully facilitated the return of Hadar Goldin after 11 years,” the official told Reuters, saying the effort reflected Hamas’s commitment to the ceasefire.
Israeli defense sources dismissed Turkey’s civilian characterization, saying the group consists of Hamas terrorists sheltering in an Israeli-controlled pocket of Rafah.
The Israel Defense Forces said it continues to destroy tunnels in the area and to maintain pressure against threats emanating from the zone.
Hamas spokesmen insist their members will not surrender and urged mediators to intervene. Senior Hamas official Mohammad Nazzal told Al-Araby television the group rejects exile from Gaza and warned Israel and its partners would bear responsibility for any escalation.
Palestinian-American mediator Bashara Bahbah said he expected an agreement “within days” that would permit the trapped terrorists to exit into safe Palestinian territory, echoing hopes among mediators for a compromise.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1ihbiylwx
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-873338
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-11-09/ty-article-live/gaza-health-officials-palestinian-death-toll-from-idf-strikes-passes-69-000/0000019a-6685-d00d-a19f-66c54d080000
other Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-strikes-hezbollah-targets-across-lebanon-says-3-operatives-killed-in-past-24-hours/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-873354
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyljf11kgbx
https://menafn.com/1110318247/IDF-arrest-twelve-Palestinians-in-military-raids-across-West-Bank
https://www.jns.org/idf-intercepts-drone-smuggling-m16-rifles-at-egyptian-border/
https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/hklko8yxwe
https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-tv-set-to-air-film-interviewing-idf-soldiers-on-alleged-gaza-war-misconduct/
https://www.jns.org/lions-roar-idf-launches-three-day-drill-in-judea-samaria-and-jordan-valley/