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CHINESE SATELLITE FORCES 4,400 OF ITS STARLINK RIVALS INTO LOWER ALTITUDE: STUDY - The first 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 accurate weather forecasting over Europe and northern Africa. The images from Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder (MTG-S) show a full-disc image of Earth as seen from geostationary orbit, about 36 000 km above Earth’s surface. These images were captured on 15 November 2025 by the satellite’s Infrared Sounder instrument. More
(Source: European Space Agency - Jan 28)

WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH ADVANCED GPS SATELLITE FOR US SPACE FORCE ON JAN. 27 AFTER DELAY - SpaceX will launch an advanced GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Tuesday night (Jan. 27), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III-SV09 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday, during a 15-minute window that opens at 11:38 p.m. EST (0438 GMT on Jan. 28). SpaceX and the Space Force had been targeting Monday night (Jan. 26), but bad weather pushed things back a day. More
(Source: Space.com - Jan 27)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 25 STARLINK SATELLITES TO POLAR, LOW EARTH ORBIT - SpaceX launched 25 of its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning. The Starlink 17-20 mission sent the broadband satellites into a polar low Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket flew on a southerly trajectory upon leaving Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 p.m. EST / 1730 UTC). More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jan 26)

AMAZON'S INTERNET-BEAMING SATELLITES ARE BRIGHT ENOUGH TO DISRUPT ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH, STUDY FINDS - The satellites in Amazon's new internet-beaming megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) are bright enough to disrupt astronomical research, a study has found. The study — which was posted on the online repository Arxiv on Jan. 12 but has not yet been peer-reviewed — analyzed nearly 2,000 observations of Amazon Leo satellites. It concluded that the spacecraft exceed the brightness limit recommended by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) that aims to ensure harmless coexistence of satellite megaconstellation with astronomical research. More
(Source: Space.com - Jan 26)

LAUNCH OF “RUSSIAN STARLINK” POSTPONED DUE TO SATELLITE PRODUCTION FAILURE - The launch of the first batch of 16 communications satellites, which was to be carried out by the Russian company Bureau 1440 at the end of last year, has been postponed. This was reported by The Moscow Times. In September 2025, Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov promised that by the end of 2025, the first 300 satellites would begin to be deployed in orbit as part of the Rassvet project. More
(Source: militarnyi.com - Jan 25)

JEFF BEZOS' BLUE ORIGIN WILL REFLY BOOSTER ON NEXT LAUNCH OF POWERFUL NEW GLENN ROCKET - Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is about to show its reusability chops. New Glenn will loft one of AST SpaceMobile's huge Block 2 BlueBird internet-beaming satellites on its next mission, which is targeted for late February, Blue Origin announced on Thursday (Jan. 22). That flight will be the third overall for New Glenn, and the first to feature a flight-proven booster: It will reuse the first stage from New Glenn's second flight (NG-2), which launched NASA's twin ESCAPADE Mars probes on Nov. 13, Blue Origin said on Thursday. More
(Source: Space.com - Jan 24)

SPACEX’S STARLINK DODGED 300,000 SATELLITE COLLISIONS IN 2025 - A report filed by SpaceX with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late December reveals some startling information – including that its Starlink satellites had to perform about 300,000 collision-avoidance manoeuvres in 2025. Starlink is a mega-constellation of satellites that beams the internet to the ground. The first Starlink satellites were launched in 2019; they now number about 9400, accounting for 65 per cent of all active satellites in orbit. More
(Source: New Scientist - Jan 24)

2.8 DAYS TO DISASTER: LOW EARTH ORBIT COULD COLLAPSE WITHOUT WARNING - Satellite mega-constellations operate in an increasingly unstable orbital environment, with constant close encounters requiring precise control. New research suggests that a strong solar storm could quickly push this delicate system toward a major collision. A new analysis suggests modern satellite networks could suffer catastrophic collisions within days of losing control during a major solar storm. More
(Source: SciTechDaily - Jan 23)

ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES ITS 1ST MISSION OF 2026, SENDING 2 SATELLITES TO ORBIT - Rocket Lab just launched its first mission of 2026. An Electron rocket carrying two satellites for the European company Open Cosmos lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today (Jan. 22) at 5:52 a.m. EST (1052 GMT; 11:52 p.m. local time in New Zealand). Electron's "kick stage" deployed the two spacecraft into a circular orbit 1,050 kilometers (652 miles) above Earth as planned about 70 minutes after liftoff. More
(Source: Space.com - Jan 23)

SPACEX LAUNCHES FIRST WEST COAST STARLINK MISSION OF 2026 - SpaceX launched its first West Coast Starlink mission of the year to send its satellites into a polar low Earth orbit. The Starlink 17-30 mission adds 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to the company’s megaconstellation. This was SpaceX’s sixth Starlink mission so far in 2026. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 9:47:29 p.m. PST (12:47:29 a.m. EST / 0547:29 UTC). The rocket flew on a southerly trajectory upon leaving the pad. More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jan 23)