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January 18, 2026

Breaking News

[ January 16, 2026 ] NRO, SpaceX launch reconnaissance satellites from Vandenberg Falcon 9
[ January 15, 2026 ] Crew 11 safely splashes down after shortened mission Mission Reports
[ January 14, 2026 ] NASA, SpaceX conduct ‘medical evacuation’ Crew-11 return to Earth Mission Reports
[ January 14, 2026 ] SpaceX breaks pad turnaround record at Cape Canaveral with midday Starlink launch Falcon 9
[ January 13, 2026 ] U.S. Space Force switches rockets for upcoming GPS satellite launch Falcon 9

Crew-11 to cut mission short and return to Earth due to medical issue

January 9, 2026 William Harwood

In keeping with the agency’s strict medical privacy policy, NASA officials have not identified the astronaut in question or provided any details about the nature of the medical issue.

FCC gives SpaceX “green light” to expand Starlink constellation to 15,000 satellites

January 8, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

The Starlink 6-96 mission added another 29 broadband internet satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. SpaceX launched from Space Launch Complex 40 on Friday, Jan. 9, at 4:41 p.m. EST (2141 UTC).

NASA weighs an earlier end to the Crew-11 mission after a ‘medical situation’ with an ISS crew member postpones first spacewalk of 2026

January 7, 2026 Will Robinson-Smith

U.S. spacewalk 94 was slated to have NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman perform a variety of operations around the orbiting outpost during the roughly 6.5-hour-long event. A new date for the spacewalk hasn’t been announced.

Crew-11 to cut mission short and return to Earth due to medical issue

FCC gives SpaceX “green light” to expand Starlink constellation to 15,000 satellites

NASA weighs an earlier end to the Crew-11 mission after a ‘medical situation’ with an ISS crew member postpones first spacewalk of 2026

Dept. of the Air Force opens bidding for Space Launch Complex 14 at Vandenberg SFB

SpaceX launches first Starlink deployment mission since problem strikes satellite

SpaceX opens 2026 with launch of Cosmo-SkyMed Earth observation satellite for Italy

Launch pad issue delays again Falcon 9 launch of Italian Earth observation satellite

Former ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno joins Blue Origin

H3 rocket suffers upper stage anomaly, fails to correctly deploy navigation satellite

Tory Bruno steps down as President, CEO of ULA