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CAS Space completes first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and capsule recovery

Chinese commercial firm CAS Space flew the maiden Lihong‑1 suborbital mission and achieved a successful parachute descent and capsule recovery. The flight validated the vehicle's end‑to‑end suborbital flight and recovery sequence in the company's first integrated test campaign.

2026-01-14T13:43:53.118957-08:00

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Spacecoin signs deals to run satellite internet pilots in Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia and Cambodia

2026-01-14T13:09:14.678219-08:00

Runway Girl

SES warns carriers against fleetwide Starlink commitments, cites loss of negotiating leverage

2026-01-14T11:11:49.924812-08:00

New York Times

2026 could be the year of mega IPOs — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic loom large

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CAS Space completes first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and capsule recovery Chinese commercial firm CAS Space flew the maiden Lihong‑1 suborbital mission and achieved a successful parachute descent and capsule recovery. The flight validated the vehicle's end‑to‑end suborbital flight and recovery sequence in the company's first integrated test campaign.

2026-01-14T13:43:53.118957-08:00

CAS Space completes first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and capsule recovery

Via Satellite

Spacecoin signs deals to run satellite internet pilots in Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia and Cambodia Spacecoin, a startup building a decentralized satellite network, has signed agreements to run satellite internet pilots in Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia and Cambodia. The demonstrations will validate Spacecoin's distributed connectivity model across diverse regulatory and market environments in Africa and Southeast Asia.

2026-01-14T13:09:14.678219-08:00

Spacecoin signs deals to run satellite internet pilots in Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia and Cambodia

Runway Girl

SES warns carriers against fleetwide Starlink commitments, cites loss of negotiating leverage SES warned airlines that committing entire fleets to SpaceX's Starlink will erode their negotiating leverage when contracts come up for renewal. The operator said exclusive fleet-level deals could expose carriers to price increases and reduced options, and urged a more diversified connectivity approach.

2026-01-14T11:11:49.924812-08:00

SES warns carriers against fleetwide Starlink commitments, cites loss of negotiating leverage

New York Times

2026 could be the year of mega IPOs — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic loom large 2026 may bring mega IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic. If they list, those offerings would unleash gushers of capital for Silicon Valley and Wall Street, reshaping public-market access, valuation benchmarks and financing across space systems, AI infrastructure and adjacent tech sectors.

2026-01-14T09:45:00.366354-08:00

2026 could be the year of mega IPOs — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic loom large

Space.com

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Jan. 12 SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Florida on Monday, Jan. 12, with liftoff at 4:08 p.m. EST. The Falcon 9 mission deployed the tranche as part of SpaceX's ongoing constellation buildout to expand network capacity and resilience.

2026-01-14T09:10:37.330294-08:00

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Jan. 12

GeekWire

Blue Origin veterans form Orbital Robotics (Puya) and recruit partners to build AI‑powered space robotic arms Orbital Robotics — also reported as Puya — is a space startup founded in late 2024 by veterans of Blue Origin that is recruiting partners to develop AI‑powered robotic arms for on‑orbit tasks. The company is soliciting collaborators to help build, test and integrate autonomy into space manipulators.

2026-01-14T08:33:31.793928-08:00

Blue Origin veterans form Orbital Robotics (Puya) and recruit partners to build AI‑powered space robotic arms

SpaceNews.com

Space sustainability will evolve into a data-driven system As orbital activity accelerates, space sustainability will evolve into a data-driven system uniting distributed sensors, shared situational awareness and analytics to manage congestion and debris. That shift will create demand for authoritative data services, new governance models and commercial SSA markets.

2026-01-14T08:13:31.664285-08:00

Space sustainability will evolve into a data-driven system

Universe Today

Study: Lunar infrastructure risks contaminating and degrading ancient ice deposits A new JGR Planets paper by Francisca Paiva and ESA planetary protection officer Silvio Sinibaldi warns that constructing lunar exploration infrastructure risks contaminating and physically degrading ancient polar ice deposits. The authors say the threat to scientific value and site "pristineness" is greater than previously understood.

2026-01-14T07:33:17.259117-08:00

Study: Lunar infrastructure risks contaminating and degrading ancient ice deposits

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CAS Space completes first Lihong-1 suborbital flight and capsule recovery

Spacecoin signs deals to run satellite internet pilots in Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia and Cambodia

SES warns carriers against fleetwide Starlink commitments, cites loss of negotiating leverage

2026 could be the year of mega IPOs — SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic loom large

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