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Updated 17 October 2026
20 October 2026
H3 Flight 10 launched MMX at 19:41:03 UTC on 19 October, or 04:41:03 JST on 20 October. JAXA confirmed spacecraft separation about 1 hour 11 minutes later. Arrival at Mars is planned for 2027 and sample return for 2031.
15 October 2026
CRS-35 docked at Harmony's space-facing port at 14:27 UTC on 15 October, after its 13 October launch. Dragon delivered more than 6,300 lb of cargo, including the final pair of ISS roll-out solar arrays, artificial-retina manufacturing equipment and three-dimensional heart-tissue research.
16 October 2026
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a timelapse of the CRS-35 launch from Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. The expanding exhaust plume caught the rising Sun while the ground was still in predawn darkness.
16 October 2026
Blue Origin says LC-36A is being restored and LC-36B is under construction for New Glenn 9x4. It plans additional Space Coast pads and has requested an increase in the permitted LC-36 rate from 12 to 50 launches a year. These are infrastructure plans and a requested limit.
12 October 2026
Perseverance reached 45.22 km of driving on Mars by 11 October, passing Opportunity's 45.16 km record. NASA reports 29 rock and regolith samples as the rover begins its extended mission.
13 October 2026
NASA's hardware update confirms completion of booster stacking on 30 September and installation of all four RS-25 engines. Core-stage integration and tanking tests are among the next steps for the mission's preparations.
16 October 2026
NASA has described the hands-on inlet and engine inspections supporting X-59. Its new maintenance feature uses footage from 30 April, between the aircraft's eleventh and twelfth flights, to explain checks for debris and damage.
15 October 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was named among TIME's Best Inventions of 2026. NASA says the observatory is commissioning its instruments during its journey to Sun-Earth L2, with its first images expected in early 2027.
October 2026
SpaceX's October launch manifest includes Starlink constellation flights and the USSF-481 mission from Vandenberg's SLC-4E. The provider publishes mission windows and webcast updates in its launch log.
Starlink Group 15-16 · SpaceX · Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
27 Oct · 07:25 UTC
last verified 28 Oct 2026 · The launch record →
We’re Not Hawking Around · Rocket Lab for HawkEye 360 · Launch Complex 1, Mahia, New Zealand
23 Oct · 07:11 UTC
last verified 25 Oct 2026 · The launch record →
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NASA / Roscosmos / ESA / JAXA / CSA · Low Earth orbit
Next: Spacewalk by Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk, planned for 29 October at 12:00 UTC, to install one IROSA solar array on the port truss
last verified 28 Oct 2026
ESA / JAXA · Mercury
Next: Mercury orbit insertion on 21 November 2026; Mio separates from the Mercury Planetary Orbiter on 9 to 10 December 2026, and the science phase begins in April 2027
last verified 08 Oct 2026
ESA · Sun-Earth L2 (retired to solar orbit)
Next: Gaia Data Release 4, targeted 2 December 2026
last verified 02 Oct 2026
NASA · Jupiter (Europa)
Next: Earth gravity assist flyby on 3 December 2026
last verified 02 Oct 2026
NASA · Sun-Earth L2
Next: Continue camera and deformable-mirror calibration before the Coronagraph’s light-blocking demonstration; L2 arrival remains expected around early December
last verified 25 Oct 2026
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