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ISS gains new commander as Crew-11 prepares midweek departure
Four SpaceX Crew-11 members gather together for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module on Jan. 9, 2026. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)…
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SpaceX Wins $739 Million in U.S. Military Launch Contracts for Missile Tracking Missions
SpaceX has secured $739 million in new U.S. military launch contracts to support missile warning and tracking missions, reinforcing the company’s role in America’s national security space architecture. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Friday that the contracts were awarded under National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 task…
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India’s workhorse PSLV needs to solve third stage issue following second consecutive failure
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), long hailed as the reliable workhorse of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), encountered a significant setback with its second consecutive mission failure on January 12. The PSLV-C62 mission, carrying the EOS-N1 (also known as Anvesha) Earth observation satellite and 15 co-passenger payloads, failed to place any satellites into…
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HawkEye 360 Launches Cluster 13 and Establishes Initial Communications
HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, announced the successful launch of its latest satellite trio, Cluster 13, and confirmed initial communications with the satellites. Cluster 13, integrated via Exolaunch, launched into a sun-synchronous orbit as part of the Twilight rideshare mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. This successful deployment…
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Exolaunch Deploys 22 Satellites on SpaceX’s First Dawn-Dusk Rideshare
Exolaunch, a global leader in launch mission management, satellite integration and deployment services, has successfully deployed 22 customer satellites on SpaceX‘s Twilight rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Launch occurred from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 05:44 PT (14:44 CET). As Exolaunch’s first mission of 2026 and 42nd overall, the launch highlights the…
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Opterus Research and Development Expands Space Services and Engineering Capabilities
Opterus Research and Development highlights the space services and technical capabilities, underscoring the company’s role in supporting government, defense and commercial space programs with applied research, engineering development and system-level integration. Opterus Research and Development is an established provider of mission-focused engineering solutions, delivering hardware, software and analytical support across the full lifecycle of space…
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Dhruva Space Announces Polar Access-1 Programme to Enable 10 Missions on ISRO’s PSLV-C62
Dhruva Space has announced Polar Access-1 (PA-1), its most integrated and infrastructure-led launch programme to date, through which the company is enabling 10 Space missions serving 6 Indian States and 2 Nations, aboard ISRO’s PSLV-DL-C62, launched at 10:17 am IST on Monday, 12 January 2026, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Polar Access by…
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Spire Global Launches 9 Satellites on SpaceX Twilight Mission
Spire Global, a leading global provider of satellite data, analytics, and intelligence, successfully launched nine satellites aboard SpaceX’s Twilight mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. As part of the mission, Spire launched its Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder (HyMS) satellite demonstrator, a compact, space-ready sensor built to advance global weather forecasting from space. HyMS is designed to…
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Mitsubishi Corporation Becomes Foundational Customer of Starlab Commercial Space Station
Starlab Space LLC announced that Mitsubishi Corporation has reserved and pre-purchased capacity on Starlab’s commercial space station, becoming a foundational customer while simultaneously increasing its investment in the company and joining Starlab’s Board of Directors through representative Issei Shinohara. The expanded partnership includes the acquisition of usage rights for designated payload volume and the utilization…
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Planet Labs Signs 9-Figure Deal with Sweden
Planet Labs PBC, a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, announced a multi-year low-9-figure agreement with the Swedish Armed Forces to rapidly deliver a suite of satellites, space-based data and awareness solutions to support the country’s peace and security operations. This agreement marks Planet’s third Satellite Services contract in twelve…