New York Times
• Erin Griffith, Lauren Hirsch
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.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: A delay in one European Space Agency mission is creating an opportunity for an earlier, and more capable, launch for another ESA spacecraft.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: Two towering buildings that helped launch humanity's greatest space achievements came down on January 10 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Centre in Alabama.
Space.com
• Robert Z Pearlman
By Space.com: Liftoff occurred at 4:08 p.m. EST on Monday (Jan. 12).
Bloomberg
• Loren Grush
By Bloomberg: The space community is breathing a sigh of relief after lawmakers rejected Trump proposed cuts.
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.
SpaceNews.com
• Clinton Clark, Ralph Dinsley
By SpaceNews.com: Space sustainability will evolve into a data-driven system.
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.
