Space coverage from YFarmX.https://yfarmx.com/en-GBhttps://yfarmx.com/spacex-sda-tranche1-launch/https://yfarmx.com/spacex-sda-tranche1-launch/Falcon 9 launched 21 SDA data-transport satellites from Vandenberg on 10 October. Its sixth-flight booster returned to land at LZ-4.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/spacex-sda-launch-abort/https://yfarmx.com/spacex-sda-launch-abort/Falcon 9's countdown stopped before liftoff on 5 October. SpaceX is targeting 6 October at 08:17 UTC for the SDA mission carrying 21 data-transport satellites.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:25:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/falcon-heavy-nrol-97-nro-launch/https://yfarmx.com/falcon-heavy-nrol-97-nro-launch/The National Reconnaissance Office launched NROL-97 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center at 11:54 p.m. EDT on 1 October 2026 (03:54 UTC, 2 October), its first on the rocket. Both side boosters, which launched NASA's Roman telescope just over 32 days earlier, landed again.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/google-suncatcher-ai-chips-reach-orbit/https://yfarmx.com/google-suncatcher-ai-chips-reach-orbit/Google's first Project Suncatcher satellite, built with Planet and carrying four of its TPU AI chips, reached orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare on 1 October 2026. Google has confirmed contact, and two satellites linked by laser follow in 2027.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:52:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/artemis-accords-76-countries/https://yfarmx.com/artemis-accords-76-countries/NASA says 76 countries have joined the Artemis Accords. Here is what the 2020 agreement asks them to do as missions return to the Moon.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/starship-flight-14-orbit/https://yfarmx.com/starship-flight-14-orbit/SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on 28 September 2026 on Flight 14, after one of its engines shut down early on the climb. It deployed all 26 of its Starlink V3 satellites and splashed down in the Pacific 3 hours 8 minutes after liftoff.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/iridium-shareholders-approve-rocket-lab-takeover/https://yfarmx.com/iridium-shareholders-approve-rocket-lab-takeover/Iridium stockholders voted on 24 September 2026 to sell the company to Rocket Lab for $27.00 in cash plus Rocket Lab shares, a notional $54.00 each. About 99.6 per cent of votes cast were in favour, and the deal is expected to close in mid-2027.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:10:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/nasa-spacex-crew-13-cleared-for-launch/https://yfarmx.com/nasa-spacex-crew-13-cleared-for-launch/NASA and SpaceX cleared Crew-13 at its Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center on 25 September 2026. Four crew are due to launch to the International Space Station at 11:10 EDT (15:10 UTC) on Thursday 1 October.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:05:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/nasa-prima-far-infrared-telescope/https://yfarmx.com/nasa-prima-far-infrared-telescope/NASA selected PRIMA, a far-infrared space telescope with a 1.8-metre mirror, on 23 September 2026 as the first mission in its new Probe Explorers class. If confirmed, its project cost is capped at $1.2 billion, not including launch, with launch targeted for 2033.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/rocket-lab-97th-electron-synspective/https://yfarmx.com/rocket-lab-97th-electron-synspective/Rocket Lab launched its 97th Electron rocket from New Zealand at 00:39 UTC on 26 September 2026, placing Synspective's 13th StriX radar satellite in a 559 km orbit. It was Rocket Lab's 18th launch of 2026.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:55:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/spacex-ussf-385-launch/https://yfarmx.com/spacex-ussf-385-launch/A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 07:00:54 PDT (14:00:54 UTC) on 26 September 2026 carrying USSF-385, a US Space Force national security mission. The first stage, on its 10th flight, landed on a droneship in the Pacific.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:50:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/us-confirms-on-orbit-space-control-weapons/https://yfarmx.com/us-confirms-on-orbit-space-control-weapons/Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the AFA conference on 14 September 2026 that the United States has on-orbit space control weapons. Outer Space Treaty Article IV bars nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction from orbit, and reaches no further.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:20:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/flex-sentinel-3c-plant-health/https://yfarmx.com/flex-sentinel-3c-plant-health/ESA's FLEX mission will measure the faint fluorescence of vegetation, sharing a planned Vega-C launch with the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:46:11 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/ses-o3b-mpower-constellation-complete/https://yfarmx.com/ses-o3b-mpower-constellation-complete/SES has launched the final three satellites in its initial O3b mPOWER constellation, with the new capacity expected to enter service by mid-2027.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:46:11 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/the-station-handover-has-a-deadline/https://yfarmx.com/the-station-handover-has-a-deadline/NASA funds the International Space Station to 2030 and has already bought the vehicle that will bring it down. Every company lined up to take over has money in the bank and no flight with a crew aboard.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/counting-launches-is-the-wrong-scoreboard/https://yfarmx.com/counting-launches-is-the-wrong-scoreboard/The world has attempted 186 orbital launches to 6 August. Catalogues that all count carefully put China's share anywhere from 55 to about 70, because they draw the line between a launch and a test in different places.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:45:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/one-pad-is-one-point-of-failure/https://yfarmx.com/one-pad-is-one-point-of-failure/Blue Origin landed the same booster twice and reflew it, so the hard part works. Then a hotfire test in May took out the next rocket and the only orbital pad the company had, and return to flight now depends on rebuilding a launch mount.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:30:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/spacex-starlink-mobile-carrier-plan/https://yfarmx.com/spacex-starlink-mobile-carrier-plan/On its first earnings call as a public company, SpaceX said it intends to sell mobile service directly to consumers and take customers from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. It has 65 MHz of American spectrum, 12 million Starlink subscribers and a plan to turn rooftop dishes into cell sites.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:07:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/spacex-nvidia-starmind-ai1-vera-rubin-nvl72/https://yfarmx.com/spacex-nvidia-starmind-ai1-vera-rubin-nvl72/SpaceX says its Starmind AI1 satellite will carry NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs, and NVIDIA says the payload is a Vera Rubin NVL72. The satellite was made two thirds more powerful to carry it.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/nasa-blue-origin-stennis-b2-new-glenn-second-stage/https://yfarmx.com/nasa-blue-origin-stennis-b2-new-glenn-second-stage/NASA has agreed to let Blue Origin hot fire the New Glenn second stage on the B-2 stand at Stennis Space Center from autumn 2026, under a reimbursable Space Act Agreement.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/perseverance-broom-point-ancient-impact-record/https://yfarmx.com/perseverance-broom-point-ancient-impact-record/NASA's Perseverance rover has found a 75-metre stack of rock on the rim of Jezero Crater built by repeated asteroid impacts more than 3.9 billion years ago, and has cached two samples of it.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/euclid-most-ancient-quasar-ever-observed/https://yfarmx.com/euclid-most-ancient-quasar-ever-observed/ESA's Euclid telescope has found the most distant quasar yet observed, shining when the Universe was 670 million years old, and 30 more ancient quasars alongside it.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTspacehttps://yfarmx.com/easa-gnss-interference-bulletin-fourth-revision/https://yfarmx.com/easa-gnss-interference-bulletin-fourth-revision/EASA has issued the fourth revision of its safety bulletin on satellite navigation outages, covering jamming and spoofing that has grown steadily around conflict zones since February 2022.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMTspacesecurity