SpaceWatch Global
• Blaine Curcio
China launched almost 400 satellites in 2025, with CAST and SECM responsible for just over half of the spacecraft built and developed. The concentration highlights how a small set of domestic manufacturers dominated production amid a record launch surge this year.
NASA Spaceflight
• Martijn Luinstra
By NASA Spaceflight: With many missions on the manifest, the new year promises to be packed with space….
By Spaceflight Now:  Update Jan. 18, 9:08 p.m. EST (0212 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: Spain's Hisdesat has confirmed that the SpainSat NG II military communications satellite has sustained non-recoverable damage.
Associated Press
• Marcia Dunn
By Associated Press: CABO CAÑAVERAL, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — El nuevo y gigantesco cohete lunar de la NASA se dirigió el sábado a la plataforma de lanzamiento en preparación para el primer vuelo lunar de astronautas en más de medio siglo.
Times of India
Science Alert
Reuters
• Camillus Eboh
By Reuters: Nigeria has issued seven-year satellite permits to Amazon's Kuiper Systems, Israel's NSLComm's BeetleSat and Germany-based Satelio IoT Services, joining Elon Musk-owned SpaceX among operators cleared to expand space-based broadband, the telecoms regulator said on Thursday.
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg: Wish them well. Next month, four astronauts are expected to board a space capsule called Orion, blast off on a rocket known as the Space Launch System, and exit low-Earth orbit for the first time since 1972, en route to a 10-day flyby of the moon.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China hit by dual launch failures as Long March 3B and Ceres-2 debut mission fail China suffered a pair of launch failures Friday, seeing the loss of a classified Shijian satellite and the failed first launch of the Ceres-2 rocket.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
Reuters
• Cassell Bryan-Low, Joey Roulette
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceNews.com
• James Snape, Richard Jacklin
