Space Industry News: Headlines from Across the Industry

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Starfish Space wins SDA contract to deorbit satellites SpaceNews · 21 Jan 2026 Starfish Space has won a contract from the Space Development Agency to deorbit satellites in a missile-tracking and communications constellation, evidence that deorbiting services are moving into the mainstream.
Accelerating digital transformation is the keystone to deterring space war SpaceNews · 21 Jan 2026 The United States cannot beat China without accelerating digital transformation: cloud-native services, edge computing, AI/ML-driven autonomy, software-defined payloads, zero-trust cybersecurity, network maneuver and aut...
The Exploration Company in Talks to Buy UK Rocket Builder Orbex European Spaceflight · 21 Jan 2026 UK-based rocket builder Orbex has signed a letter of intent to sell its business to European space logistics startup The Exploration Company. Orbex was founded in 2015 and is developing a small launch vehicle called Prim...
Stratolaunch secures major funding to scale hypersonic flight services SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Stratolaunch has completed a significant capital raise to accelerate the growth of its hypersonic test and flight services business, adding Elliott Investment Management L.P. as a new in...
Major equity deal backs Gilmour Space expansion of sovereign launch capability SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Gilmour Space Technologies has raised 217 million Australian dollars in private equity funding to accelerate the next phase of its sovereign space operations in Australia. The Series...
Lunar impacts limit late delivery of Earth ocean water SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2026 A long-standing idea in planetary science proposes that water rich meteorites arriving late in Earth history delivered a major share of the planet's water inventory. A new study led by re...
ExLabs and ChibaTech team up to land student CubeLanders on asteroid Apophis SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 ExLabs has partnered with Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology and its Planetary Exploration Research Center to deliver university-led payloads to the surface of asteroid Apophis dur...
Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets' interior details SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two planets host very different types of polar vortices, which are huge at...
Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moons SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid wa...
Europa ice delamination may deliver nutrients to hidden ocean SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A new geophysics study proposes a mechanism that could move life-sustaining nutrients from the battered surface of Europa down into its buried global ocean, improving the odds that the J...
Study links Europa's quiet seafloor to hidden potential for life SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, but none has captured scientific attention quite like Europa, which likely hides a global salty ocean beneath an icy crust that may c...
Quantum collapse models point to subtle limits in timekeeping accuracy SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Quantum mechanics describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a superposition of states, being in multiple places and configurations at once, encoded in a mathematical obje...
Cosmic dust chemistry forges peptide building blocks in deep space SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 New experiments show that key molecular building blocks for life can form spontaneously on icy dust grains in deep space long before planets emerge from collapsing gas clouds. In a labo...
Mercury and Earth chorus waves show shared plasma behavior across magnetospheres SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 An international team has shown that natural electromagnetic chorus waves, long known in Earths magnetosphere, also occur in Mercurys much weaker magnetosphere with strikingly similar freq...
Primordial magnetism offers fresh angle on the Hubble constant puzzle SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A Simon Fraser University cosmologist reports that new theoretical work on primordial magnetic fields could move researchers closer to resolving the longstanding Hubble tension, the mism...
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systems SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Astronomers have assembled the most detailed view so far of planetary systems in a long elusive stage between their birth and maturity, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
Century-old solar records refine future cycle forecasts SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 An international team of astronomers has developed a new way to extract solar polar magnetic information from more than a century of historical observations, improving prospects for pred...
U.S. vulnerable to Russian escalation in space, new report warns SpaceNews · 21 Jan 2026 Atlantic Council report urges shift toward resilient satellite architectures to blunt potential Russian attacks
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NASA to end support for planetary science groups SpaceNews · 21 Jan 2026 NASA is ending financial support for several planetary science groups as part of a broader drawdown of the agency’s advisory structure.
SWISSto12 Secures €73 Million in New ESA Funding for HummingSat Project European Spaceflight · 21 Jan 2026 SWISSto12 has announced that during the 2025 ESA Ministerial Council meeting, Member States committed €73 million in additional funding for the Renens-based satellite manufacturer’s HummingSat project. In early 2022, ESA...
Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing ESA · 21 Jan 2026 Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbours, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, these stellar oddi...
ESA at the European Space Conference 2026 ESA · 21 Jan 2026 The 18th European Space Conference (ESC) will take place on 27 and 28 January 2026 at the Square Convention Centre in Brussels, Belgium.
Artificial intelligence in manufacturing rocket parts ESA · 21 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
Magnetic avalanches power solar flares, finds Solar Orbiter ESA · 21 Jan 2026 Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak disturbances that quickly b...
Legs made for a Mars landing ESA · 21 Jan 2026 To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated martian surfaces.
Fires Erupt in South-Central Chile NASA · 21 Jan 2026 Tens of thousands of people fled to safety as blazes spread throughout the country’s Biobío and Ñuble regions.
Webb has given us with a stunning new view of a well-known planetary nebula Ars Technica · 20 Jan 2026 The colors show the star’s final breath transforming into the raw ingredients for new worlds.
NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration NASA · 20 Jan 2026 NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The event is traditionally held every year on the f...
Defense appropriations bill for 2026 funds Space Force at $26 billion, presses Pentagon on Golden Dome SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 ‘Minibus’ shifts money to GPS, backs commercial services and cuts proposed MILNET constellation
NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Retires NASA · 20 Jan 2026 After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight recor...
New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History NASA · 20 Jan 2026 NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity’s understanding and exploration of the Moon. As part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiat...
Space Foundation to Host Innovate Space: Finance Forum in Partnership With Texas Space Commission SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jan. 15, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, today announced it will host Innovate Space: Finance […]
NIH Supplements, Facts First Challenge NASA · 20 Jan 2026 NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) assists in the use of crowdsourcing across the federal government. CoECI’s NASA Tournament Lab offers the contract capability to run external crowdsourced...
NASA Chase Aircraft Ensures X-59’s Safety in Flight NASA · 20 Jan 2026 As NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft continues a series of flight tests over the California high desert in 2026, its pilot will be flying with a buddy closely looking out for his safety. That colleague will...
Florida Starship progress with launch sites at KSC and Cape NASASpaceflight · 20 Jan 2026 Although there has been a pause in launch operations as SpaceX transitions Starship to the…
NASA’s SLS Rocket: Secondary Payloads NASA · 20 Jan 2026 When NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket launches the agency’s Artemis II mission to the Moon, four CubeSats, or small satellites, will be hitching a ride inside the rocket’s Orion stage adapter (OSA). All four Artem...
NASA Unlocks Golden Age of Innovation, Exploration in Trump’s First Year NASA · 20 Jan 2026 One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics, and cutting-edge technology. These advances mark the beginning of a new Golden...
Hubble Nets Menagerie of Young Stellar Objects NASA · 20 Jan 2026 A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protosta...
Airbus Runs into Opposition with Satellite Business Consolidation European Spaceflight · 20 Jan 2026 Unions are pushing back against Airbus as it moves to consolidate its satellite business, with Airbus Defence and Space absorbing Airbus Constellations Satellites. A Union Nationale des Syndicats Autonomes (UNSA) stateme...

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