Bloomberg
• Loren Grush
Congress has rejected President Trump’s proposed cuts to NASA’s science budget, preserving funding for key Earth and space‑science missions. The decision brought relief across the space community, averting immediate program cancellations and stabilising near‑term research and satellite schedules.
SpaceNews.com
• Clinton Clark, Ralph Dinsley
By SpaceNews.com: Space sustainability will evolve into a data-driven system.
Reuters
• Gianluca Lo Nostro
By Reuters: France is looking into sending Eutelsat satellite terminals to Iran to help citizens after Iranian authorities imposed a blackout of internet services in a bid to quell the country's most violent domestic unrest in decades.
Space.com
• Robert Z Pearlman
By Space.com: Liftoff occurred at 4:08 p.m. EST on Monday (Jan. 12).
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: There is a fundamental tension in space exploration that has created ongoing debates for decades. By creating the infrastructure we need to explore other worlds, we damage them in some way, making them either less scientifically interesting or less “pristine,” which some would argue, in itself, is a bad thing.
Airbus
By Airbus: Airbus UpNext launches Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN, a new demonstrator to enable standardised global connectivity by exploring advanced 5G NTN capabilities.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: ThinkOrbital raises seed funding to advance X-ray space inspection ThinkOrbital raises seed funding to advance X-ray space inspection.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: Coverage begins at 3 p.m. EST today (Jan. 14).
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
NASA Spaceflight
• Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera, Chris Bergin
