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 ensure operational continuity of the OneWeb constellation.   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 satellites were lost, including those of other nations.   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 Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage starting roughly an hour after liftoff and concluding more than 2.5 hours into the mission.   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 Expedition 74 aboard the orbital complex to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.   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 Atlantic Ocean on the drone ship "Just Read the Instructions." It was the 29th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description.   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 concern." The agency did not name the astronaut or share details about his or her condition, citing privacy issues, but did note that the situation is stable.   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 the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide. The FCC is also allowing SpaceX to upgrade the satellites and operate across five frequencies and is waiving prior requirements that prevented overlapping coverage and enhanced capacity.   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 Starlink 6-96 mission wasn’t publicly announced, the payload fairings with the 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites inside was late in arriving to the pad at Space Launch Complex 40.   More
(Source: VWttUD8HkaU - Jan 9)

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