October 2025 Current Affairs MCQs & Solutions

Explanation: Firefly Aerospace named its first Blue Ghost mission 'Ghost Riders in the Sky'. It launched in January 2025 to deliver NASA CLPS payloads.

Explanation: Starlab Space LLC successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with NASA in March 2025, signaling its design was technically sound to proceed to full development.

Explanation: NASA's Europa Clipper, launched in October 2024, executed a Mars gravity assist flyby in March 2025 to gain the necessary speed to reach Jupiter.

Explanation: ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) consists of two orbiters designed to study how the solar wind interacts with Mars' magnetosphere and drives atmospheric escape.

Explanation: Due to issues with the H3 launch vehicle, JAXA postponed the MMX mission launch from 2024 to the next available Mars window in 2026.

Explanation: JWST identified a voraciously feeding supermassive black hole in the galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, challenging theories about how quickly such massive objects could form in the early universe.

Explanation: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) partnered with Firefly Aerospace to deliver the Rashid 2 rover to the lunar surface.

Explanation: Roscosmos confirmed that the first module (NEM-1) of the new sovereign Russian Orbital Station is scheduled to launch in 2027.

Explanation: The Hera spacecraft, launched in Oct 2024, performed a gravity assist flyby of Mars in March 2025 to set it on course for its 2026 rendezvous with the binary asteroid Didymos.

Explanation: One of the key images in the Euclid Q1 release was a stunning, deep view of the Fornax Cluster, revealing thousands of galaxies in high detail.

Explanation: SpaceX's 100th launch of 2025 was a Falcon 9 mission (Starlink 6-78) that successfully deployed a batch of 29 Starlink satellites.

Explanation: SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) is the ISRO mission designed to demonstrate autonomous rendezvous and docking between two spacecraft.

Explanation: NASA updated the schedule for Artemis II, targeting a launch no earlier than February 2026 to ensure crew safety and resolve technical issues.

Explanation: Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket finally made its debut launch in November 2025, carrying the ESCAPADE mission.

Explanation: In September 2025, JWST provided direct measurements of a carbon-rich disc surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha b, suggesting it could be a 'construction yard' for moons.

Explanation: Wait, the snippet says 'End of mission... March 7'. Landed March 6. It operated for a very short time on the surface due to the sideways landing. Actually, the snippet says mission duration 8 days total (launch to end). On the surface, it was only about 1 day of partial ops. Let's correct the question to avoid ambiguity.
*Correction:* 'Athena' ceased operations shortly after landing. How long after landing did it lose power?
*Answer:* About 1 day (Landed March 6, End March 7). The total mission was 8 days.

Explanation: China launched Shenzhou 22 to the Tiangong space station in November 2025.

Explanation: The Euclid space telescope released its Q1 data in March 2025, which included a detailed catalogue of 380,000 galaxies classified with the help of AI.

Explanation: Starlab is a joint venture primarily between Voyager Space and Airbus.

Explanation: NASA's Perseverance rover continued to find vital clues regarding ancient Martian chemistry and potential life signatures in late 2025.