Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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‘We helped usher in the modern era of AI in NGA.’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘Serving the country and pushing the boundaries of human existence is very purposeful.’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘I loved thinking about how to make science possible for America and for the world’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘You need competent people in the government to direct and make decisions.’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘Now it’s time to turn the baton over to others. I hope there’s somebody else to grab that baton.’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘People knew that they could come to us to figure out how to get things done.’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘As far as I know, I’m still the assistant administrator of NESDIS.’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
‘Leaders can be replaced, institutional knowledge cannot’ SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year decline since the end of World War II. In t...
Exodus: The shrinking federal space workforce SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 In 2025, more than 322,000 civil servants left jobs voluntarily or were dismissed out of a workforce of roughly 2.4 million. The 13% drop in staffing is the largest single-year […]
Week in images: 02-06 February 2026 ESA · 6 Feb 2026 Week in images: 02-06 February 2026
ULA offloads first Vulcan rocket at Vandenberg at it preps its next Cape launch Spaceflight Now · 6 Feb 2026 United Launch Alliance is preparing for the launch of the USSF-87 mission for the U.S. Space Force no earlier than Feb. 12, which will fly from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
NASA selects two Earth science missions for development SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.
Over the moon and under the radar SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 Depending on when you read this, NASA will be weeks — perhaps days — from one of its biggest missions in years. On Jan. 17, NASA rolled out the Space Launch System rocket, with Orion spacecraft mounted on top, to the lau...
Launching the idea of data centers in space SpaceDaily · 6 Feb 2026 San Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intellige...
New crew set to launch for ISS after medical evacuation SpaceDaily · 6 Feb 2026 Paris, France (AFP) Feb 5, 2026 Four astronauts could blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) next week, after setbacks including a mysterious medical evacuation of the previous crew, last-minute rocket proble...
The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperation SpaceDaily · 6 Feb 2026 Paris, France (AFP) Feb 5, 2026 When the International Space Station comes back to Earth in 2030, it will mark the end of three decades of peaceful international cooperation - and an era when space became central to our...
One dimensional anyons offer tunable quantum statistics SpaceDaily · 6 Feb 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2026 Physicists have traditionally divided all elementary particles in three dimensional space into just two categories, bosons and fermions, depending on how systems of identical particles beh...
Hidden mechanical energy may help sustain life on Earth SpaceDaily · 6 Feb 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2026 Life on Earth has traditionally been viewed as running on two main energy sources, sunlight captured by photosynthesis and chemical energy derived from reactions such as microbes feeding o...
China set for in-flight abort test of Mengzhou crew spacecraft SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 China appears set for an in-flight abort test of its new-generation Mengzhou spacecraft next week in a key step for the country’s human spaceflight plans.
Sophie Adenot ready for first space mission ESA · 6 Feb 2026 ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot is preparing to launch to the International Space Station for her first space mission: εpsilon.
Earth from Space: Olympic view ESA · 6 Feb 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid ESA · 6 Feb 2026 With fewer cars on the road, planes in the air and factories running, the skies seemed cleaner during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, while there was a decline in pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, scientists were surp...
A Winter Blanket Covers North Carolina NASA · 6 Feb 2026 In late January 2026, a strong, moisture-laden storm dropped snow across nearly the entire state, spanning from the Appalachians to the Atlantic Coast.
Tomorrow.io banks $175 million for DeepSky weather constellation SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 SAN FRANCISCO – Tomorrow.io raised $175 million to fund DeepSky, a satellite constellation designed to gathering vast quantities of atmospheric data for artificial intelligence models. With the money provided by private...
Pentagon casts Golden Dome as model for faster, risk-tolerant defense buying SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 Golden Dome deputy program manager Marcia Holmes: ‘We are going to be easier to work with’
FAA approves Starship launches from LC-39A SpaceNews · 6 Feb 2026 The Federal Aviation Administration has approved plans for Starship launches from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A as SpaceX shifts Falcon 9 launches away from the historic pad.
NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions NASA · 5 Feb 2026 Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. “NASA uses the unique vantage point of spa...
Career Spotlight: Welder (Ages 14-18) NASA · 5 Feb 2026 What does a welder do? A welder uses tools that join two or more parts through forces such as heat or pressure. Metals are the materials most commonly used in welding, but it’s also possible to weld thermoplastics or woo...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 to Study Adaptation to Altered Gravity NASA · 5 Feb 2026 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is preparing to launch for a long-duration science mission aboard the International Space Station. During the mission, select crew members will participate in human health studies focused on...
Despite initial setbacks, Chinese spaceflight expected to see exciting 2026 NASASpaceflight · 5 Feb 2026 The new year has not started well for China, with two failures among its first…
Hubble Spots Lens-Shaped Galaxy NASA · 5 Feb 2026 This new Hubble image, released on Jan. 30, 2026, is the sharpest taken of NGC 7722, a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. A lenticular, meaning “lens-shaped,” galax...
The future of the Space Force in a competitive, congested and contested space environment SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2026 In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss sits down with a panel of experts at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center to discuss the future of the United States […]
A presidential greeting ahead of Sophie Adenot's first spaceflight ESA · 5 Feb 2026 ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher joined French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace for an event celebrating the first spaceflight of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot.
A presidential greeting ahead of Sophie Adenot's first spaceflight ESA · 5 Feb 2026 ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher joined French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace for an event celebrating the first spaceflight of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot.
NASA will finally allow astronauts to bring their iPhones to space Ars Technica · 5 Feb 2026 "We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments."
Deep space, dim objects: Why asteroid mining caught the Space Force’s eye SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2026 Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy said the Space Force is taking a closer look at companies developing technologies to mine asteroids.
The Exploration Company Completes Nyx Splashdown Tests European Spaceflight · 5 Feb 2026 European space logistics startup The Exploration Company has successfully completed a controlled splashdown test of a subscale prototype of its Nyx spacecraft. Founded in 2021, The Exploration Company is developing a reu...
Satellite servicing startup Starfish taps Quindar for mission operations software SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2026 Quindar’s software aims to cut cost and complexity of satellite ground operations
Voyager Technologies and Max Space partner on lunar infrastructure SpaceNews · 5 Feb 2026 Voyager Technologies and Max Space, a company working on expandable habitats, plan to work together to see how that technology could be used for lunar exploration.
Study maps thousands of non native plants that could colonize Arctic SpaceDaily · 5 Feb 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 Species that are not native to an area can displace the species that already live there, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Nature has identified invasive alien organisms as one of the...

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