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Deals•Feb 4, 2026
Muon Space Secures $146M Series B Funding to Accelerate Satellite Constellation Deployment
Muon Space announced it has closed a $146 million Series B financing round, providing capital to expand its multi-mission satellite constellation operations and develop in-house propulsion technology. The new funding will support accelerated launch cadence, production capacity growth, and further government and commercial contracts.
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News•Feb 3, 2026
MDA Space and Hanwha Target Korean K-LEO Defense Network
MDA Space and Hanwha Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the use of MDA's AURORA software‑defined satellite platform for South Korea’s planned K‑LEO defense constellation. The partnership aims to deliver secure, resilient low‑Earth‑orbit communications and data services...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
NASA Backs Studies to Boost Hypersonic Flight Testing
NASA has awarded $500,000 to SpaceWorks and $1.2 million to Stratolaunch to study how their X‑60 and Talon A vehicles can be adapted for reusable, high‑cadence hypersonic flight testing. The contracts, part of NASA’s Hypersonic Technology Project, aim to bridge the gap...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
Lab Made Cosmic Dust Experiment Reveals Paths to Life Chemistry
University of Sydney researchers have synthesized carbon‑rich cosmic dust in the lab by subjecting a nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene mixture to a 10 kV glow‑discharge plasma. The resulting CHON‑laden particles form thin films on silicon chips and exhibit infrared fingerprints...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
NASAs IMAP Begins Primary Science Mission
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) entered its two‑year primary science mission on Feb 1, 2026, to chart the heliosphere’s outer limits. The spacecraft carries ten instruments that will measure solar‑origin particles, magnetic fields and interstellar dust, delivering the most comprehensive...
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News•Feb 3, 2026
NTU Singapore Boosts Agile Space Access with Trio of New Projects
Nanyang Technological University has launched three Space Access Programme projects under Singapore’s Space Technology Development Programme, targeting annual launches from 2026 to 2028. The first project integrates an edge‑computing AI payload and perovskite solar cells into a 3U nanosatellite built...
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News•Jan 31, 2026
NASA Advances Space Based Tracking of Marine Debris
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has adapted its land‑based plastic‑detection remote‑sensing system to monitor marine debris from orbit. The new algorithm leverages high‑resolution multispectral satellite imagery to identify floating plastic patches and shoreline accumulation. Early tests over the Pacific have successfully...
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News•Jan 31, 2026
Balerion Backs Northwood to Tackle Ground Bottlenecks in Expanding Space Economy
Balerion Space Ventures has joined Northwood Space’s $100 million Series B round, earmarking capital to address terrestrial ground‑infrastructure bottlenecks that threaten the scaling of the emerging space economy. The investment underscores Balerion’s strategy of backing foundational systems that enable both commercial and...
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News•Jan 31, 2026
Leonardo DRS Infrared Payloads Selected for SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 3
Leonardo DRS has secured a subcontract to supply advanced infrared mission payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 3 (TRKT3). The new payloads will provide persistent, global coverage to detect and track ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons from launch...
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News•Jan 31, 2026
NASA Delays Moon Mission over Frigid Weather
NASA has delayed the Artemis 2 lunar flyby to February 8, pushing the earliest launch window back two days because forecasted near‑freezing temperatures at Cape Canaveral would breach launch criteria. The postponement narrows February’s viable launch days to just three, tightening the...
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News•Jan 30, 2026
Lockheed Martin Launches Ninth GPS III Satellite to Boost Secure Navigation
Lockheed Martin placed its ninth GPS III satellite, SV09, into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral on Jan 30 2026. The spacecraft delivers three‑times the accuracy and up to eight‑times better anti‑jamming capability, reinforcing both military and civilian navigation services....
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News•Jan 30, 2026
SES to Extend EGNOS GEO 1 Payload Service for Precise Navigation over Europe Through 2030
SES and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme have renewed the EGNOS GEO 1 satellite service agreement through 2030, with an option to extend to 2032. The extension keeps the hosted payload on SES 5 operational, delivering high‑precision navigation corrections...
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News•Jan 30, 2026
NASA Heat Shield Technology Enables Space Industry Growth
NASA’s C‑PICA heat‑shield material, developed at Ames Research Center, was licensed to Varda Space Industries and manufactured in‑house for the company’s W‑5 capsule. On Jan. 29, 2026 the capsule re‑entered Earth’s atmosphere and landed safely in South Australia, marking the first all‑Varda...
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News•Jan 30, 2026
Rocket Lab Conducts Second Electron Mission in Eight Days to Orbit Korean Imaging Satellite
Rocket Lab completed its 81st Electron flight, deploying the NEONSAT‑1A Earth‑observation satellite for South Korea’s KAIST. The "Bridging The Swarm" mission lifted off from New Zealand on Jan 30, placing the payload into a 540 km low‑Earth orbit. This launch marks the company’s...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
What Is the Universe Made Of? SLAC Experts Weigh in on the Mysterious Force that Shapes Our Cosmic History
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has released its final results, summarizing a decade of observations that mapped hundreds of millions of galaxies and uncovered sixteen nearby dwarf galaxies. DES measurements of supernovae and galaxy clustering have provided the tightest constraints...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
Autophage Rocket Concept Wins EU Prize for Debris Free Launch Technology
Alpha Impulsion, a Franco‑Italian space startup, won a €950,000 EU prize for its autophage rocket concept that consumes its own structure as fuel, eliminating upper‑stage debris. The design promises roughly a 40% reduction in liftoff mass, translating into comparable launch‑cost...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
Northrop Grumman Boosters Set For First Crewed Lunar Voyage Of Artemis Era
Northrop Grumman’s upgraded five‑segment solid rocket boosters are slated for NASA’s Artemis II, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System, targeted for early February 2026. The twin 177‑foot boosters generate 3.6 million pounds of thrust each, contributing 7.2 million pounds—about 75 percent of...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
AI Digital Twins Aim to Protect Astronaut Mobility on Deep Space Missions
West Virginia University researchers are creating AI-powered digital twins that replicate each astronaut's movement and muscle activation patterns to monitor neuromuscular health during long‑duration microgravity missions. By combining motion‑capture, wearable sensors, virtual‑reality tasks and physics‑based simulations, the models can predict...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
In-Space Manufacturing, Quantum Projects Part of All-Boilermaker Suborbital Spaceflight
Purdue University is expanding its 2027 all‑Boilermaker suborbital mission, Purdue 1, by adding two autonomous research lockers that will fly aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft. One locker will test laser‑assisted semiconductor and metal manufacturing in microgravity, while the other will study...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
ESA Member States Back SWISSto12 HummingSat with Fresh Funding Round
SWISSto12 has secured €73 million from European Space Agency member states via the ARTES HummingSat partnership, bringing its recent funding total to over €100 million. The capital will accelerate the development and industrialisation of its compact, software‑defined geostationary communications platform, HummingSat, with...
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Deals•Jan 28, 2026
Balerion Space Ventures Invests $100M in Northwood Space's Series B Round
Balerion Space Ventures has invested in Northwood Space's $100 million Series B funding round, aimed at building terrestrial ground infrastructure for the expanding space economy. The capital injection underscores Balerion's focus on foundational systems needed to scale commercial and government...
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News•Jan 27, 2026
Low Frequency Lasers Modeled to Greatly Boost Nuclear Fusion Rates
A new theoretical study shows that intense low‑frequency laser fields can dramatically increase nuclear fusion rates by reshaping the collision‑energy distribution of reacting nuclei. The model predicts that a 1.55 eV laser at 10²⁰ W cm⁻² boosts deuterium‑tritium fusion probability by three orders...
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News•Jan 27, 2026
Geoscientists Use Satellite to Determine Not the Shape of Water, but How Water Shapes Land
Virginia Tech geoscientists have repurposed NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite—originally designed to map water surface height—to study how water reshapes land. By applying SWOT data to fluvial geomorphology, the team demonstrated global-scale monitoring of river dynamics, sediment...
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News•Jan 27, 2026
Stratoship Alliance Charts Staged Path for Smallsat Payloads
Stratoship has signed an MoU with Queensland firms Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space Co to create a staged "lab‑to‑space" pathway for small‑satellite payloads. The framework links laboratory development, stratospheric testing, very low Earth orbit (VLEO) and full orbital missions, with Orbit2Orbit...
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News•Jan 26, 2026
Starfighters Completes Key Wind Tunnel Campaign for STARLAUNCH 1 Air Launch Vehicle
Starfighters Space Inc has completed a dedicated wind‑tunnel campaign for its STARLAUNCH 1 air‑launched sub‑orbital rocket, confirming clean separation from its supersonic carrier aircraft at both subsonic (Mach 0.85) and supersonic (Mach 1.3) conditions. Ten test runs demonstrated forces and moments consistent with...
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News•Jan 26, 2026
China Prepares Offshore Test Base for Reusable Liquid Rocket Launches
China is constructing its first offshore platform dedicated to testing, launching and recovering reusable liquid‑propellant rockets at Haiyang, Shandong. The artificial island, three kilometres from shore, targets early‑February 2026 trial operations, featuring a hydraulic erector and a 17‑metre‑deep flame trench....
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News•Jan 22, 2026
AST SpaceMobile Secures Role on MDA SHIELD Defense Architecture
AST SpaceMobile has been awarded a prime contract under the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD IDIQ, positioning its low‑Earth‑orbit cellular broadband architecture within the nation’s missile‑defense modernization effort. The indefinite‑delivery, indefinite‑quantity contract allows AST to compete for research, development, prototyping...
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News•Jan 22, 2026
Comtech Wins Multi-Million Dollar Follow-On Contract for Civil Space Components
Comtech Telecommunications secured a follow‑on contract exceeding $5 million to supply advanced electronic components for a U.S. civil‑space lunar exploration program. The award reinforces its long‑standing partnership with a major aerospace and defense prime contractor, delivering microelectronics and engineering services. Executives...
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News•Jan 22, 2026
Keysight Joins Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN Project to Advance 5G Satellite NTN
Keysight Technologies has joined Airbus UpNext’s SpaceRAN demonstrator to test 5G non‑terrestrial network (NTN) capabilities on a low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) satellite. The project uses software‑defined satellite payloads to evaluate how next‑generation satellite hardware can deliver 5G services from space. Keysight will...
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News•Jan 22, 2026
Teledyne Detector Arrays Power NASAs BlackCAT CubeSat X-Ray Mission
Teledyne Technologies’ Space Imaging division has deployed its Speedster HyViSI hybrid visible silicon imager focal‑plane arrays on NASA’s BlackCAT CubeSat, which launched on Jan. 11, 2026 via a SpaceX Twilight rideshare. The 6U satellite, led by Pennsylvania State University, will use...
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News•Jan 22, 2026
Perovskite Betavoltaic Cell Sets Record Efficiency Using Carbon 14 Source
A research team at DGIST has unveiled a perovskite‑based betavoltaic cell that reaches a record 10.79% energy‑conversion efficiency using carbon‑14 nanoparticles as the beta source. The device demonstrates stable power output for over 15 hours, a six‑fold gain versus the...
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News•Jan 21, 2026
Quantum Collapse Models Point to Subtle Limits in Timekeeping Accuracy
An international team examined the Diósi‑Penrose and Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) quantum collapse models and demonstrated that, if these models are correct, time itself carries a tiny intrinsic uncertainty. This fuzziness imposes a fundamental, though extraordinarily small, limit on the...
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News•Jan 21, 2026
ExLabs and ChibaTech Team up to Land Student CubeLanders on Asteroid Apophis
ExLabs has partnered with Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology to send student‑designed CubeLanders to asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach. The ApophisExL mission, supported by NASA’s JPL, is billed as the world’s first commercial deep‑space rideshare, offering co‑manifested payload...
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News•Jan 21, 2026
Lunar Impacts Limit Late Delivery of Earth Ocean Water
A new study using high‑precision triple‑oxygen‑isotope measurements on Apollo lunar regolith shows that only about 1% of the Moon’s soil is impactor‑derived material, limiting the amount of water late‑arriving meteorites could have delivered. Even assuming Earth received roughly twenty times...
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News•Jan 21, 2026
Stratolaunch Secures Major Funding to Scale Hypersonic Flight Services
Stratolaunch announced a sizable capital raise that brings Elliott Investment Management on board alongside existing backer Cerberus Capital Management. The new funding will be used to boost production capacity of its reusable hypersonic aircraft and increase the cadence of test...
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Deals•Jan 21, 2026
Stratolaunch Secures Major Funding From Elliott Investment Management and Cerberus
Stratolaunch announced a significant equity raise, adding Elliott Investment Management as a new investor alongside existing backer Cerberus Capital Management. The undisclosed funding will be used to expand hypersonic test and flight services, increase production capacity, and accelerate flight cadence...
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News•Jan 19, 2026
ExoAnalytic Tools to Power FireSat Wildfire Monitoring Constellation
ExoAnalytic Solutions has been chosen to develop containerized web applications that visualize the orbits and 1,500 km swath coverage of the Earth Fire Alliance’s FireSat wildfire‑monitoring constellation. The tools will provide both public‑facing and secure interfaces, enabling real‑time and predictive track...
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News•Jan 19, 2026
Keck Backed Team Advances First Graviton Detector Concept
A team led by Igor Pikovski and Jack Harris, backed by the W. M. Keck Foundation, has moved graviton detection from theory to a concrete laboratory concept. Their approach merges recent gravitational‑wave observations with macroscopic quantum sensors, proposing that a gram‑scale superfluid‑helium resonator can...
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News•Jan 16, 2026
Frozen Hydrogen Cyanide Crystals May Have Helped Spark Early Chemistry for Life
Researchers used atomistic simulations to show that frozen hydrogen cyanide (HCN) crystals generate intense electric fields on their facets, accelerating chemical reactions at cryogenic temperatures. The study identified surface pathways that convert HCN into its more reactive isomer, hydrogen isocyanide...
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News•Jan 16, 2026
Slow Orbital Wobble Patterns Drive Ancient Greenhouse Climate Swings
A new study shows Earth’s axial precession can drive abrupt, millennial‑scale climate swings even without ice sheets. Using high‑resolution sediment cores from China’s Songliao Basin, researchers identified 4,000‑5,000‑year humid‑arid cycles during the Late Cretaceous, a greenhouse period with CO₂ around...
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News•Jan 16, 2026
Spire Adds Hyperspectral Sounder and Myriota Payloads on SpaceX Twilight Launch
Spire Global launched nine satellites on SpaceX’s Twilight mission, featuring its first hyperspectral microwave sounder (HyMS) and eight Myriota IoT payloads. HyMS is designed to deliver high‑resolution temperature, humidity and precipitation profiles, especially in cloudy conditions, to improve numerical weather‑prediction...
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News•Jan 16, 2026
NASA Back for Seconds with New Food System Design Challenge
NASA has launched the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table, a global competition that asks innovators to design a self‑sustaining, Earth‑independent food system for long‑duration missions to the Moon and Mars. The contest, backed by a prize pool of up...
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News•Jan 16, 2026
Early Universe Dark Matter Born Red Hot Before Cooling
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Université Paris‑Saclay propose that dark matter may have been born ultrarelativistic—essentially "red hot"—during the post‑inflationary reheating era, contrary to the long‑standing belief that it must be cold from birth. Their analysis shows that such...
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News•Jan 15, 2026
The Quiet Transformation of GPS - What's Coming by 2026
GPS is undergoing a quiet transformation that prioritizes signal stability, continuous operation, and integration with ground infrastructure rather than headline‑grabbing accuracy gains. Engineers are redesigning the constellation to deliver consistent output during short disruptions and to function reliably in dense...
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