Space & Food Security: A European Space Agency launch on Sept. 15 will send the first satellite designed to detect plant stress from space by measuring photosynthesis itself—aiming to spot drought, heat stress, and disease earlier than greenness-only tools like NDVI. Space & Health-Related Weather Monitoring: A new Meteosat Third Generation Imager-2 (MTG-I2) satellite launched from French Guiana on Aug. 27, boosting near-real-time severe weather tracking and enabling continuous lightning detection across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East—supporting earlier warnings that can protect public health. Space Mission Update: BepiColombo’s Mercury Transfer Module separated from its science orbiters after a power-fault-driven redesign, ending the ion propulsion phase as the mission continues toward Mercury. Science Buzz: The JUICE spacecraft is expected to explore Jupiter’s icy moons for signs of simple life in subsurface oceans, with mission operations manager saying discovery would be “fantastic.”