AIRBUS AWARDED EUTELSAT CONTRACT FOR FURTHER 340 LOW EARTH ORBIT ONEWEB SATELLITES - Airbus Defence and Space has been awarded a contract by Eutelsat to build a further 340 OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Together with the previous batch of 100 satellites procured in December 2024, the total number of satellites ordered by Eutelsat amounts to 440. These new satellites will ... More (Source: Airbus - Jan 13)
INDIA’S PSLV SUFFERS SECOND CONSECUTIVE LAUNCH FAILURE, 16 SATELLITES LOST - India’s first launch of 2026 ended in failure due to an issue with the third stage of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The mission, designated PSLV-C62, was also the second consecutive failure of this four-stage rocket with both anomalies affecting the third stage. This time, 16 satel... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jan 13)
ISRO TO LAUNCH ANVESHA SATELLITE ON PSLV-C62: WHY NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM IT - Imagine having a superpower that lets you see beyond what the human eye can detect, revealing hidden details in everything from forests to battlefields. That's hyperspectral remote sensing (HRS) in a nutshell. Think of it as turning ordinary satellite photos into a high-tech detective tool.... More (Source: India Today - Jan 12)
SPACEX DEPLOYS NASA’S PANDORA, OTHER SMALLSATS AMID 1ST ‘TWILIGHT’ RIDESHARE MISSION - SpaceX debuted a new class of rideshare mission on Sunday with the launch of its first Twilight flight. The mission was described by the company as flying to a “dawn-dusk Sun-synchronous orbit” after departing from Vandenberg Space Force Base. There were 40 spacecraft jettisoned from the Falc... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jan 12)
CHANGE OF COMMAND OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TO OCCUR - NASA will provide live coverage of the International Space Station change of command ceremony starting at 2:35 p.m. EST Monday, Jan. 12. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. As Crew-11 prepares to depart from the space station, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke will hand command of E... More (Source: NASA - Jan 11)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 29 STARLINK SATELLITES ON ITS 3RD MISSION OF 2026 - SpaceX's third mission of 2026 is in the books. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (Jan. 9) at 4:41 p.m. EST (2141 GMT). About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket's first stage landed in the... More (Source: Space.com - Jan 11)
NASA CONSIDERING BRINGING ASTRONAUTS HOME EARLY FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION DUE TO MEDICAL ISSUE - The health issue affecting an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may be serious enough to end his or her orbital stay early. On Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 7), NASA announced that it has postponed a planned Thursday (Jan. 8) spacewalk outside the ISS due to an astronaut "medical... More (Source: Space.com - Jan 10)
FCC APPROVES SPACEX PLAN TO DEPLOY AN ADDITIONAL 7,500 STARLINK SATELLITES - The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it has approved SpaceX's request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites as it works to boost internet service worldwide. The FCC said Elon Musk's SpaceX can now operate an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing... More (Source: Reuters - Jan 10)
SPACEX SCRUBS MIDDAY STARLINK MISSION LAUNCH FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX scrubbed its planned early afternoon Falcon 9 launch on Thursday without citing a reason for the slip. The flight will deliver a new batch of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station when it does fly. While an explanation for the delay to the Sta... More (Source: VWttUD8HkaU - Jan 9)
NASA POSTPONES JAN. 8 SPACEWALK DUE TO 'MEDICAL CONCERN' WITH AN ASTRONAUT - NASA has postponed a planned Jan. 8 spacewalk outside the International Space Station due to a "medical concern" with an unnamed crew member. Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman had been scheduled to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday at about 8:00 a.m. EST (1300 GMT), kickin... More (Source: Space.com - Jan 8)
SATELLITE OVERLOAD: ASTRONOMERS LOOK TO UN TO PRESERVE THE NIGHT SKY - As satellite launches surge toward 1.7 million by 2030, astronomers and space companies are turning to multilateralism to mitigate satellite brightness and radio interference and keep astronomy alive. Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on “American space superiorit... More (Source: Geneva Solutions - Jan 8)
CHINA SPACE STATION CONDUCTS IN-ORBIT EXPERIMENT ON LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES, AIMING TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE OF SPACECRAFT ENERGY SYSTEM: REPORT - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed that the project titled "In-situ electrochemical optical research on lithium-ion batteries for space applications" has been carried out on the China Space Station, with an ultimate goal to enhance the performance of spacecraft energy system. The Shen... More (Source: Global Times - Jan 7)
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SPACE STATIONS WILL START ORBITING EARTH IN 2026 - The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as NASA and its partners prepare to deorbit the ISS at the end of the decade, commercially owned stations ... More (Source: New Scientist - Jan 7)
EXPEDITION 74 GEARS UP FOR FIRST SPACEWALK OF 2026 - The Expedition 74 crew is gearing up for the first spacewalk of 2026 this week that will see two astronauts prepare the International Space Station for a new set of roll-out solar arrays. The orbital residents also had time on Monday to conduct microgravity research, pack a U.S. cargo craft, and mai... More (Source: NASA - Jan 6)
SPANISH COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE DAMAGED DURING MANEUVERING – IT WAS LAUNCHED LAST FALL - The Spanish satellite SpainSat NG II was damaged during a maneuver to reach its final orbit. According to the operator Hisdesat, the device collided with “space debris” at an altitude of about 50,000 kilometers, which happened after its launch on October 23, reports Defence Turk. Hisdesat ... More (Source: militarnyi.com - Jan 6)
THE NEXT FRONTIER IN SPACE IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK – WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF VERY LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITES - There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting the Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. But as more and more satellites are launched in... More (Source: Space.com - Jan 5)
SPACEX LAUNCHES FIRST STARLINK DEPLOYMENT MISSION SINCE PROBLEM STRIKES SATELLITE - SpaceX launched its first Starlink mission since one of its satellites in orbit was knocked out of action in an incident on Dec. 17. Liftoff of the Starlink 6-88 mission happened at 1:48 a.m. EST (0648 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket flew on a s... More (Source: - Jan 5)
SPACE DEBRIS LED TO AN ORBITAL EMERGENCY IN 2025. WILL ANYTHING CHANGE? - Earth is surrounded by human-made debris that orbits our planet. The problem is worsening every year, and 2025 was no different. Space debris experts say nearly 130 million pieces of orbital junk are zipping around our planet: high-speed leftovers from rocket stage explosions, abandoned satellite... More (Source: Space.com - Jan 4)
AFTER HALF A DECADE, THE RUSSIAN SPACE STATION SEGMENT STOPPED LEAKING - A small section of the International Space Station that has experienced persistent leaks for years appears to have stopped venting atmosphere into space. The leaks were caused by microscopic structural cracks inside the small PrK module on the Russian segment of the space station, which lies betw... More (Source: Ars Technica - Jan 3)
