SpaceX aims for Wednesday afternoon to launch Starship's 7th test mission
The seventh flight test of SpaceX's Starship is scheduled to launch on Wednesday, January 15. This flight test will showcase a new iteration of Starship with substantial upgrades, marking its first payload deployment test, multiple reentry experiments, and both the launch and return of the Super Heavy booster.
Among the upgrades to Starship's upper stage are redesigned forward flaps reloca Congressman watches for potential changes at NASA under Trump administration

The congressman whose district includes NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center says he is taking a wait-and-see approach to potential changes to the center.
Martijn Blanken, Neo Space Group – Commercial Space Transformers

In this episode of Commercial Space Transformers SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jason Rainbow speaks with Martijn Blanken, CEO, Neo Space Group (NSG).
SpaceX sends up 5th Space Coast launch of the year
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BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby: the movie
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Fly over Mercury with BepiColombo for the final time during the mission’s epic expedition around the Sun. The ESA/JAXA spacecraft captured these images of the Solar System's smallest planet on 7 and 8 January 2025, before and during its sixth encounter with Mercury. This was its final planetary flyby until it enters orbit around the planet in late 2026.
The video begins with BepiColombo's approach to Mercury, showing images taken by onboard monitoring cameras 1 and 2 (M-CAM 1 and M-CAM 2) between 16:59 CET on 7 January and 01:45 CET on 8 January. During this time, the
Defense Department’s new tool to investigate on-orbit anomalies

Cloud-based tool to help military satellite operators determine the cause of on-orbit anomalies.
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Yutu-2 rover likely immobile on the moon after historic lunar far side mission

Loft Orbital raises $170 million to accelerate condosat business

Varda’s second mission launches with U.S. Air Force payload

The company’s W-2 capsule launched aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rideshare mission
Tomorrow.io NextGen offers high-resolution rain forecasts

Tomorrow.io satellites feed NextGen, a tool that offers global precipitation forecasts with a resolution of 2.5 kilometers.
