NASA Spaceflight
• Haygen Warren
As 2025 turns to 2026, the worldwide launch manifest is quieting down, with only four launches scheduled in the opening days of the year. The sparse start to 2026 leaves a thin near-term orbital schedule while providers and customers await the season's fuller manifests.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Planet, best known for providing geospatial intelligence through its satellites, sees an opportunity in orbital data centers for artificial intelligence.
Space.com
• Leonard David
By Space.com: "Some will not change behavior until something bad happens.".
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Vandenberg Space Force Base is offering launch providers access to a new site with conditions that could enable flights of SpaceX’s Starship.
Wall Street Journal
• Micah Maidenberg; Brian McGill
By Wall Street Journal: The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — South Korean launcher startup Innospace said its plans to return to Brazil’s….
Space.com
• Leonard David
By Space.com: "The damage is real, but it doesn't have to be permanent.".
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: Researchers have been trying to look at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS from every conceivable angle. That includes very unconventional ones. Recently, while 3I/ATLAS passed out of view of the Earth, it moved into a great vantage point for one of our interplanetary probes.
NASA Spaceflight
• Eleanor Day
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
