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Crew-11 to make early return Jan. 15

Saturday, 10 January 2026 20:46
Crew-11

NASA plans to return four astronauts from the ISS to Earth early Jan.

Starlink satellites

The FCC approved a second tranche of 7,500 Starlink Gen2 satellites Jan.

SpaceX sweeps nine national security missions for SDA and NRO under NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1

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Pete Hegseth praises U.S.

Commercial launch startup Landspace has secured formal contracts to launch satellites for China’s two main megaconstellation projects, helping to address a launch capacity bottleneck.

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Week in images: 05-09 January 2026

Friday, 09 January 2026 13:15
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 6 January 2026, shows Amsterdam in the Netherlands blanketed in snow.

Week in images: 05-09 January 2026

Discover our week through the lens

At the beginning of 2026, it’s worth reflecting on the U.S.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has identified a contender for one of the earliest known spiral galaxies containing a stellar bar, a structure that plays a role in how galaxies evolve. The system, designated COSMOS-74706, appears as a barred spiral galaxy from a time wh
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
China's space sector completed 93 orbital launch missions in 2025, the highest annual total the nation has recorded. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC), the main State-owned contractor, closed out the year on Dec 31 with a Long March 7A launch from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan that placed two technology demonstration satellites into orbit. The company conducte
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 08, 2026
Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an energetic and electrically charged environment where dust storms and dust devils continually reshape the landscape, creating dynamic processes that have intrigued scientists.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2026
Chinese astronauts and ground-based science teams completed 86 new scientific and technological tasks on the Tiangong space station in 2025, underscoring the outpost's expanding role in research, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said that in 2025 a total of 1,179 kilograms of experimental instruments, materials, and other necessities for science and technology mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026
Trimble has agreed to provide positioning technology that will feed navigation and driver assistance systems in the Lucid Gravity electric vehicle, delivering centimeter-level accuracy in conditions where conventional GPS often loses reliability, such as tunnels, parking structures and dense urban corridors. The system combines Trimble RTX corrections with the ProPoint Go positioning engin
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