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- Launch Preview: Launches from China, U.S., and Norway scheduled for upcoming week NASASpaceflight · 12 Jan 2026 Eight orbital launch attempts are scheduled for this week, with SpaceX and Chinese launches comprising…
- You can now reserve a hotel room on the Moon for $250,000 Ars Technica · 12 Jan 2026 "We can't keep everyone living on that first ship that sailed to North America."
- A Quarter Century in Orbit: Science Shaping Life on Earth and Beyond NASA · 12 Jan 2026 For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research that is transforming life on Earth and shaping the future of exploration. From growing food an...
- NASA Invites Media to Cover Artemis Mission from Johnson Space Center NASA · 12 Jan 2026 Media accreditation is open to attend Artemis II mission activities at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Johnson is where flight controllers in mission control will manage the test flight after liftoff of the first...
- 2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking NASA · 12 Jan 2026 NASA has identified a list of 32 technology shortfalls and invites you to give input on your critical technology needs using this feedback mechanism. Whether you’re part of the space technology community or an interested...
- NASA Welcomes Portugal as 60th Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 12 Jan 2026 Portugal is the latest nation to sign the Artemis Accords alongside 59 other countries in a commitment to advancing principles for the responsible exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond with NASA. “Portugal joins a ca...
- NASA Stennis Engineer Proud to Serve During NASA’s Return to the Moon NASA · 12 Jan 2026 Richard Wear calls it an honor to be working at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, during a historic time as NASA prepares to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 y...
- White Dwarf Star (Artist’s Concept) NASA · 12 Jan 2026 A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist’s concept released Nov. 19, 2025, to illustrate the first use of NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization E...
- Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 12 Jan 2026 The Starlink 6-97 mission is the fifth Falcon 9 rocket launch of 2026, a rate of roughly one flight every 2.5 days. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 3:00:40 p.m. EST (2000:40 UTC...
- Tyvak International’s LIDE satellite completes initial on-orbit 5G tests SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 Turin, Italy — Jan. 11, 2026 — The 12U CubeSat LIDE (LIve DEmonstration) has successfully completed its first months of on-orbit operations following its launch July 23, 2025, aboard a […]
- India’s PSLV suffers second consecutive launch failure, 16 satellites lost Spaceflight Now · 12 Jan 2026 The anomaly Monday morning local time came less than a year after a previous issue that caused the failure of the PSLV-C61 mission.
- NRO taps Capitol Hill staffer Bill Adkins as principal deputy director SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 Former House Defense Appropriations aide takes on day-to-day leadership role at U.S. spy satellite agency
- Complement-ARIE NAMs Reduction to Practice Challenge NASA · 12 Jan 2026 Recent technological advances have set the stage for a renewed focus on human-based solutions called new approach methodologies (NAMs) that can complement, and in some cases replace, animal models in research and regulat...
- Eutelsat Taps Airbus To Build 340 OneWeb Satellites European Spaceflight · 12 Jan 2026 In 2016, Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb founded a joint venture called Airbus OneWeb Satellites to build what was then a constellation of 900 satellites for the OneWeb low Earth orbit megaconstellation. The joint ve...
- AI needs spatial intelligence. The GEOINT industry will deliver it. SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 For several years, the space-based geospatial intelligence industry has been chasing a logical vision for AI: use it to make our existing systems faster and smarter. Train models to detect objects. Automate change detect...
- NASA Bolsters Golden Age of Exploration with Technology Priorities NASA · 12 Jan 2026 As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon that will pave the way for human exploration on Mars, the agency is tapping into America’s expanding space economy to help guide its strategic technology investment...
- Space is becoming an industrial economy SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 Shortly after space week in October, investment firm JP Morgan announced a $10 billion investment plan targeting industries critical for United States national security. In addition to things like nanomaterials, autonomo...
- Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze NASA · 12 Jan 2026 This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig...
- NASA outlines path to Artemis 2 launch SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 NASA has provided a long-awaited update on plans for the Artemis 2 launch, including a Jan. 17 rollout of the launch vehicle to the pad.
- Astris infographic ESA · 12 Jan 2026 From the ESA Blogs.
- Applied lessons for NASA’s science programs SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 It took a year, but the Jared Isaacman era at NASA finally started. Sworn in Dec. 17, the new administrator spoke at a NASA town hall the next day to take questions about his plans for the agency. He offered few specific...
- This year must bring greater collaboration against orbital congestion SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 The problem of overcrowding orbits and increasing space debris has never been more urgent. International organizations, policy makers, regulators, space operators and researchers are recognizing how critical this issue i...
- India’s PSLV launch fails during ascent, 16 satellites lost SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle failed late Sunday during ascent, resulting in the loss of a primary Earth observation satellite and 15 smaller co-passenger spacecraft.
- Sentinel 1 decade long radar record tracks shifting Greenland and Antarctic ice SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 The Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission has delivered a 10 year record of how ice flows from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets into the ocean, providing a consistent, high resolution view of...
- Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomalies SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, with collaborators Jillian Paulin at the University of Pennsylvania, Andreea Petric of the Space T...
- MDA Space wins role in US SHIELD missile defense program SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA) reports it has received an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterpr...
- Asteroid metals harden under extreme particle blasts SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a study showing that iron-rich asteroids can withstand much higher energy inputs than expected without breaking apart, a result tha...
- Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocks SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Davis CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and m...
- Electrons lag behind the nucleus SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain mat...
- Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolved SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Giant DNA viruses that infect amoebae are providing new evidence that viruses may have helped drive the evolution of complex life, according to researchers at Tokyo University of Science a...
- Quantum interferometer boosts sensitivity to tiny laser beam shifts SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen have demonstrated a quantum interferometric method that can register extremely small tilts and displacements of a laser beam. The a...
- Surrey Japan team to probe short lived atomic nuclei in cosmic element quest SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Plans to obtain the first precision measurements of some of the rarest and most unstable atomic nuclei are set to advance understanding of nuclear structure and the way chemical element...
- Jets from black hole drive record coronal gas stream in nearby galaxy SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby disk galaxy called VV 340a, with...
- Milky Way stars mapped as major source of ghost particle flux at Earth SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Neutrinos, often called ghost particles, are elementary particles that are electrically neutral, extremely light, and interact only rarely with other matter. Trillions pass through Eart...
- This exotic form of ice just got weirder SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Researchers hoped to clarify the boundaries between different types of superionic water - the hot, black ice believed to exist at the core of giant ice planets. Instead, they found multip...
- China files ITU paperwork for megaconstellations totaling nearly 200,000 satellites SpaceNews · 12 Jan 2026 China has submitted two filings for huge non-geostationary satellite networks to the International Telecommunication Union, indicating moves to secure options for next-generation megaconstellations.
- “No Urgency” to Upgrade Vega C Booster, Says ESA European Spaceflight · 12 Jan 2026 A shared solid-fuel booster upgrade that will be used for the first time aboard an Ariane 6 rocket later this year will not be introduced aboard Vega C until 2028. The European Space Agency says the delay reflects the re...
- NASA says targeting ISS medical evacuation for January 14 SpaceDaily · 12 Jan 2026 Washington, United States (AFP) Jan 10, 2026 NASA crewmembers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) could return to Earth as soon as Thursday, the US space agency said, after a medical emergency prompted the crew...
- Susan Schuh: Supporting the Humans in Human Spaceflight NASA · 12 Jan 2026 Susan Schuh has dedicated her career to helping humans adapt to life beyond Earth. As the Flight Crew Integration Operational Habitability (OpsHab) team lead in NASA’s Human Health and Performance Directorate at Johnson...
- What’s Happening in Space Policy January 11-17, 2026 SpacePolicyOnline.com · 11 Jan 2026 Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of January 11-17, 2026 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session