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BRUSSELS — Exotrail, a French company specializing in multi-orbit satellite mobility and focused on LEO service vehicles, together with Astroscale France, the French subsidiary of the Japan-based on-orbit servicing company, announced Jan.

Watch live: Crew-12 news conference

Wednesday, 28 January 2026 05:45
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 crew, from left to right, is NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

Tune in on Friday, 30 January from 16:00 GMT/17:00 CET (11:00 EST) to watch the mission overview press conference, followed at 18:00 GMT/19:00 CET (13:00 EST) by the final press conference of the Crew-12 astronauts as they prepare to launch to the International Space Station for a nine-month mission — live on ESA Web TV.  

NOAA solar observatory reaches Lagrange point 1

Wednesday, 28 January 2026 04:18

SAN FRANCISCO — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest space weather observatory has reached Lagrange point 1.

SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is keeping close tabs on the cost of the next generation of geostationary weather satellites.

Kubilius

BRUSSELS —  The European Union’s new government satellite communications program, GOVSATCOM, which pools capacity from eight already on-orbit geosynchronous satellites, began operations last week, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said Jan.

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The second edition of the Space Debris 2026 Conference officially commenced today.

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Astrophysical anomalies from Hubble’s archive

A team of astronomers have used a new AI-assisted method to search for rare astronomical objects in the Hubble Legacy Archive. The team sifted through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just two and a half days, uncovering nearly 1400 anomalous objects, more than 800 of which had never been documented before.

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Watch the keynote address by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher at the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels.

The European Space Conference is a key strategic event bringing together representatives from ESA, the European Commission, industry, national space agencies and other European institutions to discuss the future of Europe in space.

Download the transcript.

NIGRÁN, Spain — While much of the European NewSpace ecosystem has spent the last five years in a cycle of public fundraising and prototype announcements, UARX Space took a different […]

SAN FRANCISCO – An independent NASA evaluation confirmed the quality of radio occultation data provided by PlanetiQ.

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 26, 2026
A new theoretical study shows that intense laser fields could greatly enhance nuclear fusion reactions by reshaping the collision energies of interacting nuclei before they tunnel through the Coulomb barrier. The work tackles one of fusion energy's central challenges, the strong electrostatic repulsion between positively charged nuclei that usually demands temperatures of tens of millions of kel
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