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- Stratoship alliance charts staged path for smallsat payloads SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Stratoship has signed a memorandum of understanding with Queensland based companies Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space Co to build a staged lab to space pathway for small satellite payloa...
- Hydrogen nuclei experiment sharpens view of quarks inside matter SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 The lightest element in the universe is helping nuclear physicists probe the inner structure of matter with new precision. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Ac...
- Ancient nitrogen enzyme study illuminates early Earth conditions and life detection SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 By resurrecting a 3.2 billion year old enzyme and testing it inside living microbes, researchers have opened a new experimental window on early Earth and how to recognize signs of life o...
- Spire weather data to power AiDASH vegetation and outage risk tools SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Spire Global has been selected by AiDASH to supply advanced space-based weather intelligence for AiDASH's vegetation, storm and ignition risk platform used by electric utilities in North...
- Lunar soil study limits late meteorite role in supplying Earth oceans SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 A long standing idea in planetary science is that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history could have delivered a major share of the planet's water. A new study that mines th...
- Low frequency lasers modeled to greatly boost nuclear fusion rates SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 A new theoretical study shows that intense laser fields could greatly enhance nuclear fusion reactions by reshaping the collision energies of interacting nuclei before they tunnel through...
- Oak Ridge team plans powerful test facility for next generation fusion components SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is joining with Type One Energy and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop a world class high heat flux facility to te...
- Understanding USDT How Stablecoins Maintain Value in Volatile Markets SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Cryptocurrency markets are known for extreme price swings, where values can rise or drop dramatically within hours. This volatility creates uncertainty for traders, investors, and instit...
- Quantum transport method reads open quantum states SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 What is the state of a quantum system? Answering this question is essential for exploiting quantum properties in emerging devices and for developing new quantum technologies across comp...
- Activists question treaty power to protect high seas SpaceDaily · 27 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 After years of international negotiation and diplomacy, the High Seas Treaty has come into force in January 2026, with 61 states ratifying the agreement to protect international waters a...
- ESA at the European Space Conference - Day 1 ESA · 27 Jan 2026 The European Space Agency discussed plans for its record budget as the 18th European Space Conference began in Brussels, Belgium on 27 January.
- Space Force set to choose contractors for next-gen GEO spy satellites SpaceNews · 27 Jan 2026 The service plans to select satellite manufacturers as soon as March for the Geosynchronous Reconnaissance & Surveillance (RG-XX) program,
- Vega C to launch Brazilian satellite SpaceNews · 27 Jan 2026 A Brazilian government agency will launch an Earth observation satellite on a Vega C rocket, working with a launch broker rather than contracting directly with Avio.
- Airbus Selects Vega C to Launch First Pléiades Neo Next Satellite European Spaceflight · 27 Jan 2026 Airbus has tapped Avio to launch its first Pléiades Neo Next Earth observation satellite aboard a Vega C rocket. The mission is expected to launch in early 2028. The Airbus Defence and Space-operated Pléiades Neo Next pr...
- Northwood Space raises $100 million Series B, lands $49 million Space Force deal SpaceNews · 27 Jan 2026 The company makes phased-array ground stations that connect with satellites across multiple orbits
- Oman signs Artemis Accords SpaceNews · 27 Jan 2026 Oman signed the Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration Jan. 26, becoming the 61st nation to do so.
- Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images ESA · 27 Jan 2026 The first two images from the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder satellite have been shared at the European Space Conference in Brussels, showing how the mission will provide data on temperature and humidity, for more acc...
- Brazil’s Amazonia-1B Satellite to Be Launched Aboard Vega C European Spaceflight · 27 Jan 2026 Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has awarded a contract to SpaceLaunch for the launch of its Amazonia-1B Earth observation satellite aboard a Vega C rocket in 2027. In September 2025, Italian rocket...
- Floods Inundate Southern Mozambique NASA · 27 Jan 2026 Weeks of intense rain overwhelmed rivers and reservoirs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
- Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal As Early as January 31 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 27 Jan 2026 NASA said this evening that the Wet Dress Rehearsal or WDR in advance of the launch of Artemis II is now planned for “as early as” Saturday, January 31. The
- NASA seeks partners for Earth Science extended missions SpaceNews · 27 Jan 2026 SAN FRANCISCO – NASA’s Earth Science Division is exploring partnerships with external organizations to support instrument mounted on the International Space Station and free-flyer missions. “For some of these missions […...
- Launch Roundup: GPS, Starlink, Electron launches scheduled for last week of January NASASpaceflight · 26 Jan 2026 The last week of January has a busy slate of orbital launches, with flights from…
- Hanwha exploring South Korean defense constellation with MDA Space and Telesat SpaceNews · 26 Jan 2026 South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Systems is partnering with Canada’s MDA Space to explore collaboration on the development of a defense satellite constellation for the Asian nation.
- NASA, GE Aerospace Hybrid Engine System Marks Successful Test NASA · 26 Jan 2026 To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up for a demonstration...
- NASA Welcomes Oman as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 26 Jan 2026 The Sultanate of Oman signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in Muscat attended by NASA on Monday, becoming the 61st nation to commit to responsible space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. “Oman’s access...
- NASA Technology Brings Golden Age of Exploration to Earth NASA · 26 Jan 2026 As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program has the sole mission of getting those innovations into the hands of companies, entrep...
- How NASA Is Homing in From Space on Ocean Debris NASA · 26 Jan 2026 Space-based technology could help track plastic and other flotsam by its ‘fingerprints.’ In late 2025, scientists reported that, for the first time, they were able to detect concentrations of plastic pollution on land us...
- Astranis adds Oman customer to summer GEO launch lineup SpaceNews · 26 Jan 2026 Oman-based industrial conglomerate MB Group has ordered a small geostationary broadband satellite from Astranis that is slated to launch this summer.
- Hubble Observes Ghostly Cloud Alive with Star Formation NASA · 26 Jan 2026 While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. White wisps of gas swirl thro...
- NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter’s Influence on Universe NASA · 26 Jan 2026 With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and even planets like Earth. Scientists using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescop...
- We need a ‘Planetary Neural Network’ for AI-enabled space infrastructure protection SpaceNews · 26 Jan 2026 You may not see it with the naked eye, but in Earth’s orbit, a silent crisis is unfolding. With over 11,000 active satellites currently in orbit — a number expected to reach between 30,000 and 60,000 by 2030 — 40,500 tra...
- ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all ESA · 26 Jan 2026 The European Space Agency’s innovative Biomass satellite is now fully commissioned, opening free access to a powerful new stream of data that promise a step change in our understanding of forest dynamics and their role i...
- Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor ESA · 26 Jan 2026 Last autumn, the European Space Agency’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory hosted three student teams from universities across Europe. After being selected to join the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the students were invit...
- H3 failure linked to payload fairing separation anomaly SpaceNews · 26 Jan 2026 An H3 launch failure in December may have been caused by an unusual event that led to the satellite separating from the rocket prematurely.
- Artemis II rollout ESA · 26 Jan 2026 On 17 January, the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft were rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to Launch Pad 39B. The 6.5-km journey took aroun...
- China prepares offshore test base for reusable liquid rocket launches SpaceDaily · 26 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 China is preparing to bring into operation its first offshore platform purpose built for testing, launching and recovering reusable liquid propellant rockets, with the goal of lowering acc...
- Solar Orbiter spots magnetic avalanches driving major solar flare SpaceDaily · 26 Jan 2026 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Just as avalanches on snowy mountains begin with the motion of a small amount of snow, Solar Orbiter has revealed that a powerful solar flare can start from initially weak magnetic distur...
- Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution SpaceDaily · 26 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Modern cells rely on intricate molecular machinery and genetic programs to grow and divide, but the earliest protocells were likely simple lipid-bound compartments whose behavior depended...
- Metal rich winds detected in giant dusty cloud around distant star SpaceDaily · 26 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been detected in a massive cloud of gas and dust that dimmed the light of a distant star for nearly nine months, offering a rare view of late stag...
- Seismic networks offer new way to track space junk reentering atmosphere SpaceDaily · 26 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2026 Space debris, the thousands of fragments of human made hardware abandoned in Earth orbit, can threaten people and infrastructure when it falls out of the sky and reaches the ground. Rese...