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From late 4 to early 5 September 2026, Anak Krakatau erupted continuously, lofting ash to 15 km and forcing authorities to keep a 3-km exclusion zone while declaring no tsunami threat.
On 6 Sep 2026, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt unveiled plans for rapid anti-drone units in nine German cities and a nationwide "Cyberdome" sensor net after an explosive-laden UAV was intercepted at Leipzig/Halle Airport in August.
On 5 September 2026, German start-up Isar Aerospace’s 28-m Spectrum rocket lifted off from Andøya Spaceport in Norway and reached low-Earth orbit with five satellites, becoming the first privately built and operated European launcher to attain orbit from European soil.
On 5 September 2026, Hurricane Lowell re-intensified to 160 mph Category 5 roughly 600 miles south-southwest of Honolulu and is forecast to pivot north toward Kauai early next week, prompting Hawaii’s governor to issue a statewide emergency and prepare hurricane watches.
On 3 September 2026 the ESA–JAXA BepiColombo stack discarded its Mercury Transfer Module, switching to self-power for the final 2½-month glide before orbital insertion around Mercury.
On 5 Sep 2026, German startup Isar Aerospace’s second Spectrum flight lifted off from Andøya, Norway and successfully placed five small satellites into low-Earth orbit, marking the first time a privately built rocket from continental Europe reached orbit.
ISRO confirmed it will attempt at 02:55 am IST on 4 September 2026 to launch GSLV-F17 with the 2.3-tonne EOS-05, reviving India’s stalled geostationary Earth-imaging programme after the 2021 GISAT-1 failure.
Less than a day after Tesla put its steering-wheel-less Cybercabs into paid service in Austin on 3 Sept 2026, the U.S. highway-safety regulator launched Audit Query AQ26002 to scrutinize whether the company’s self-certification legally substitutes for the federal exemptions normally required for such driverless designs.
Apple will unveil only the iPhone 18 Pro/Pro Max (plus a foldable “iPhone Ultra”) at a 9 Sept 2026 event, with pre-orders unusually pushed to Sat 12 Sept and higher prices expected.
For the first time, the World Meteorological Organization put the probability of El Niño lasting through February 2027 at “near-100 percent,” warning it could surpass all events since modern monitoring began and spurring agencies such as IOM to shift from response to anticipatory action.
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