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- The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch Ars Technica · 20 Jan 2026 "We have a very strong incentive to send a crew as quickly as we can safely do so."
- Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes 3 New Associate Members SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 January 20, 2026 – Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome Max Space, Slingshot Aerospace, and Muon Space. Together, these companies strengthen CSF’s advocacy efforts across space […]
- Intricacies of Helix Nebula Revealed With NASA’s Webb NASA · 20 Jan 2026 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of our own Sun and planetary system. In Webb’s high-resolution look, the structure of the gas bein...
- Webb reveals Helix Nebula in glistening detail ESA · 20 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Smoke plumes from Chile wildfires seen by Sentinel-3 ESA · 20 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Free warnings, better catalogs: the real fix for space safety SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 A one-line change in the Dec. 18, 2025 Executive Order, Ensuring American Space Superiority, reopened a debate: should the United States charge satellite operators for basic space situational awareness (SSA) and civil sp...
- Washington Harbour expands space investments with ground services acquisition SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 The firm acquired Radome Services, which was rebranded as Outpost Mission Services to anchor a roll-up strategy in space ground services
- Sodern to produce star trackers in Colorado SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 Sodern, a French manufacturer of star trackers and cameras, is expanding into the United States with a new production facility in Colorado.
- Gilmour Space raises $146 million SpaceNews · 20 Jan 2026 Australian launch vehicle and satellite manufacturer Gilmour Space Technologies has raised its largest funding round to date to scale up rocket and spacecraft production.
- Spectrum’s qualifying second launch ESA · 20 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Jaclyn Kagey Shapes Humanity’s Return to the Moon NASA · 20 Jan 2026 For Jaclyn Kagey, helping astronauts put boots on the Moon is part of her daily work. As the Artemis III extravehicular activity lead in NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate, Kagey plays a central role in preparing astro...
- ESA monitoring January 2026 space weather event ESA · 20 Jan 2026 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Weather Office is closely monitoring a notable space weather event, first detected 18:09 UTC on Sunday, 18 January 2026. We are collecting detailed information from our expert serv...
- Stay smart on space chemical compliance ESA · 20 Jan 2026 The European Union’s Chemicals Regulation, REACH, is one of the most comprehensive legislative frameworks for chemical safety worldwide. Designed to protect human health and the environment from hazardous substances, REA...
- ArianeGroup Appoints Safran’s Christophe Bruneau as Next CEO European Spaceflight · 20 Jan 2026 ArianeGroup, jointly owned by Airbus and Safran, has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Christophe Bruneau as CEO, succeeding Martin Sion, who has held the role since April 2023. Bruneau joins ArianeGrou...
- Damaged DSN antenna out of service until May SpaceNews · 19 Jan 2026 A key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) that was damaged last fall is expected to remain offline until May, followed by extended downtime for upgrades.
- Launch Preview: Falcon 9 set to launch two missions from California, Isar to attempt second launch of Spectrum NASASpaceflight · 19 Jan 2026 The upcoming week will see seven rocket launches from six different launch sites across the…
- Repaired Shenzhou-20 Returns to Earth Empty SpacePolicyOnline.com · 19 Jan 2026 China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth from the Tiangong space station. No one was aboard. Apparently damaged by space debris, it was deemed unsafe to return the crew
- As Europe's large ground telescope project advances, how is its US competitor faring? Ars Technica · 19 Jan 2026 Ars checks in with the new president of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
- 20 Years of Planning, Effort Ready to Culminate in Return to the Moon Space Scout · 19 Jan 2026 The Artemis program, while relatively young, incorporates elements that have had long and winding development histories, which is reflected in the evolution of its earliest mission plans over time.
- Rocket roll ESA · 19 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- NASA must act now to ensure U.S. leadership in space SpaceNews · 19 Jan 2026 Jared Isaacman made something unmistakably clear during his confirmation hearing as NASA Administrator: time is not on America’s side. The United States is no longer alone in deep space ambition, and the race to return h...
- Vega-C overview infographic ESA · 19 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Space Force ends ‘Resilient GPS’ satellite program SpaceNews · 19 Jan 2026 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified as a priority. The...
- Proba-3: our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona ESA · 19 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- The EGT Programme: your road to space ESA · 19 Jan 2026 Dreaming of a career in space? The 2026 ESA Graduate Trainee opportunities are launching soon! It’s time to polish up your CV, craft your motivation letter and get ready to reach for the stars.
- Interstellar raises major Series F funding to expand launch and satellite business SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Interstellar Technologies, a privately held Japanese space infrastructure company, has completed a Series F funding round totaling 20.1 billion JPY (approximately 129.7 million USD) throug...
- Galactic Energy conducts sixth offshore Ceres 1 mission from Yellow Sea platform SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Galactic Energy has carried out its sixth sea based mission of the Ceres 1 solid fuel launcher, adding four more spacecraft to the Tianqi commercial internet of things constellation. The...
- NASA moves moon rocket to launch pad ahead of Artemis 2 mission SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2026 NASA on Saturday rolled out its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft as it began preparations for its first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. The...
- Iron bar of hot plasma revealed inside Ring Nebula SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 London, UK (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Astronomers using a powerful new multi-object spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope have uncovered a previously unknown bar-shaped cloud of ionised iron inside the famous Ring Nebul...
- China lofts AlSat 3A imaging craft for Algeria SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 China has launched a Long March 2C rocket carrying a remote sensing satellite for Algeria, extending long running space cooperation between the two countries. The two stage launcher lifted...
- China tests Long March 12B reusable first stage at Jiuquan SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp has carried out a static firing test of the first stage of its new Long March 12B reusable carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center...
- Computer models let scientists peer into the mystery beneath Jupiter's clouds SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant--so thick that no spacecraft has been able to meas...
- Laser timing tech sharpens black hole radio views SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Radio telescopes capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of distant celestial objects, but resolving black holes sharply requires many instruments to observe in...
- Hidden magma oceans could shield rocky exoplanets from harmful radiation SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Rochester NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire pl...
- China Sky Eye tracks binary-triggered fast radio burst activity SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 An international team of astronomers has obtained the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate in binary stellar systems rather than from isolated objects. Th...
- Atomic 6 debris shields selected for Portal Space Systems mission SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Atomic-6 has secured a key deployment of its Space Armor tiles as the primary micrometeoroid and orbital debris protection system on an upcoming Portal Space Systems spacecraft that will...
- Keck backed team advances first graviton detector concept SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Modern physics faces a deep inconsistency between quantum theory, which explains nature using discrete particles and interactions, and general relativity, which describes gravity as a sm...
- ExoAnalytic tools to power FireSat wildfire monitoring constellation SpaceDaily · 19 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 ExoAnalytic Solutions Inc. has been selected to develop advanced software and visualization tools for the Earth Fire Alliance FireSat program, an emerging satellite constellation designe...
- How Long, Not Long NASA · 19 Jan 2026 After marching from Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, and called for nonviolence in the fight for equality and justice for all Americans.
- What’s Happening in Space Policy January 18-24, 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Jan 2026 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of January 18-24, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House is in session this week.