One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics, and cutting-edge technology. These advances mark the beginning of a new Golden Age of American space leadership driven by clear national direction and historic investment through the Working Families Tax Cut Act. Since his inauguration as […]
A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protostar casts its glow on the surrounding gas and dust, creating a reflection nebula. Two dark stripes on opposite sides of […]
Unions are pushing back against Airbus as it moves to consolidate its satellite business, with Airbus Defence and Space absorbing Airbus Constellations Satellites. A Union Nationale des Syndicats Autonomes (UNSA) statement has called the move “industrial, economic and social nonsense.” The Background In January 2016, Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb announced the creation of […]
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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 being shed off by a dying star comes into full focus. The image reveals how stars recycle their […]
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 […]
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The firm acquired Radome Services, which was rebranded as Outpost Mission Services to anchor a roll-up strategy in space ground services
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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 space traffic coordination (STC) services? The order revised SPD-3 by removing the expectation that these services be provided “free of direct user fees,” […]
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Sodern, a French manufacturer of star trackers and cameras, is expanding into the United States with a new production facility in Colorado.
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Australian launch vehicle and satellite manufacturer Gilmour Space Technologies has raised its largest funding round to date to scale up rocket and spacecraft production.
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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 astronauts for humanity’s return to the lunar surface. She helps define how astronauts will work on the Moon, from planning detailed spacewalk […]
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 service centres.
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, REACH also poses unique challenges for the space sector where exemptions are rare and obsolescence risks are high.
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 ArianeGroup from Safran Aircraft Engines, where he has served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the company’s Military Engines division […]
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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.
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The upcoming week will see seven rocket launches from six different launch sites across the…
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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 […]
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.
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 humans to the moon is strategic, geopolitical and urgent — not just symbolic. China has declared its intent with regards […]
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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 effort, known as Resilient GPS, or R-GPS, began in 2024 and funded three industry teams to develop designs and early prototypes […]
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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.
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 designed specifically to serve the global wildfire community. The company, which focuses on space and defense technologies, will provide capabilities aimed at improving how FireSat data is presented and used by frontlin
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 smooth curvature of space and time. For gravity to fit into a unified quantum framework, it must be mediated by particles called gravitons, but detecting even a single graviton was long considered fundamentally imp
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 off at 12:01 pm local time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and placed the AlSat 3A spacecraft into its planned orbit.
Project contractor China Great
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 fly on SpaceX's Transporter 18 rideshare mission in October 2026 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The flight will mark the first operational orbital deployment of Space Armor tiles, moving the material from earlier tes
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. The work centers on an active repeating fast radio burst source about 2.5 billion light years away that shows a sudden and transient change in its magnetic environment consistent with material expelled from a ste
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 Nebula. The structure, described in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stretches across the inner region of the nebula and contains a mass of iron atoms comparable to the mass of Mars.
The Ri
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 planets from dangerous cosmic radiation and other harmful high-energy particles.
Earth's magnetic field is generated by movement in its liquid iron outer core - a process known as a dynamo - but larger rock
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 perfect synchrony as if they were a single giant dish.
To meet this challenge, a KAIST led collaboration has implemented a reference signal system that sends an optical frequency comb laser directly into
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 measure exactly what lies beneath.
But a new study led by University of Chicago and Jet Propulsion Lab scientists has given us a deeper look at the planet by creating the most complete model to date of Jupi
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 maneuver, which takes up to 12 hours, will allow the US space agency to begin a string of tests for the Artemis 2 mission, which could blast off as early as February 6.
The immense orange and white Space Launch System rocket
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 latest Ceres 1 lifted off at 4:10 a.m. local time from a mobile offshore platform positioned in the Yellow Sea off Shandong province in eastern China, placing its payload into low Earth orbit about 850 kil
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 in Northwest China.
The company said engines on the Long March 12B first stage were ignited on Friday afternoon and sustained combustion for a period while ground teams monitored performance and control
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) through a third-party allotment of new shares to a group of domestic financial and strategic investors.
The company states that this latest round brings its cumulative funding to 44.6 billion JPY (about 287.7 m
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.
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. […]
With many missions on the manifest, the new year promises to be packed with space…
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SpaceX will continue the expansion of its Starlink internet network with the launch of 29 new satellites. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida is scheduled for 5:06:10 p.m. EST (2206:10 UTC) Sunday.
Eutelsat has signed an agreement with French startup MaiaSpace to launch some of its OneWeb replenishment satellites.
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Hisdesat has announced that the SpainSat NG II military communications satellite, which was struck by a “space particle,” has suffered “non-recoverable damage.” As a result of this finding, the company has initiated an RFQ (request for quotation) for a replacement satellite, designated SpainSat NG III. The SpainSat NG II satellite was launched aboard a Falcon […]
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Early Saturday morning, NASA rolled out the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will send humans back to the Moon for the first time in 54 years.
NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft rolled to the launch pad for the Artemis 2 mission Jan. 17, though uncertainty remains about when it will be ready to launch.
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Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble took these infant star snapshots in an effort to learn how massive stars form. Protostars are shrouded in thick dust that blocks light, but Hubble can detect the near-infrared emission that shines through holes […]
