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Recently in space

launched

Zhishenxing-1 (Pallas-1) maiden flight · Galactic Energy · Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone, Jiuquan, China

1 Sept · time tbc

last verified 05 Sept 2026 · The launch record →

launched

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope · SpaceX (for NASA Launch Services Program) · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

30 Aug · 11:26 UTC

last verified 05 Sept 2026 · The launch record →

Latest

From the newsroom

orbit · 8 AugNothing lined up to replace the space station has flown a crewNASA 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.
launches · 8 AugNobody agrees how many rockets have flown this yearlaunches · 8 AugBlue Origin can land New Glenn and has nowhere to launch itsatellites · 8 AugSpaceX wants to be your phone company, and it has the spectrum to try
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Desks

Subjects, places and the hardware bay

Generated concept artwork of a black hole surrounded by an amber accretion disc and curved light.

Event Horizon

A live black hole observatory, eight discoveries and twelve cosmic artworksConcept artwork of a dark three-by-three grid of glowing objects: a satellite, an engine, a holographic globe, charts and a colour cube.

Hardware bay

Ten machines of spaceflight in 3D, turnable in every directionConcept artwork of four communications satellites flying in formation above Earth at night, linked by thin blue and green orbital trace lines, one red line diverging.

Satellites

The infrastructure surrounding EarthConcept artwork of a dense lattice of small satellites and coloured links wrapped around the curve of Earth at night.

Orbit

The environment spacecraft operate inConcept artwork of a modular lander with red, white and green panels on the lunar surface, a small rover alongside and Earth low in the black sky.

Moon

The race back to the lunar surfaceConcept artwork of a six-wheeled rover on rust-coloured Martian terrain at sunset, mapping the ground ahead in red, blue and green tiles.

Mars

Science and engineering on another planetConcept artwork of a space telescope with a segmented golden mirror splitting starlight into red, green and blue beams, Earth small in the distance.

Science

What space missions discover

Missions

Missions, nearest milestone first

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JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)

cruise

ESA · Jupiter (Ganymede, Callisto, Europa)

Next: Earth gravity assist flyby on 12 September 2026

last verified 22 Aug 2026

BepiColombo

cruise

ESA / JAXA · Mercury

Next: Mercury orbit insertion on 21 November 2026, with routine science operations beginning in early 2027

last verified 22 Aug 2026

Gaia

data processing

ESA · Sun-Earth L2 (retired to solar orbit)

Next: Gaia Data Release 4, targeted 2 December 2026

last verified 22 Aug 2026

Europa Clipper

cruise

NASA · Jupiter (Europa)

Next: Earth gravity assist flyby on 3 December 2026

last verified 22 Aug 2026

Artemis programme

development

NASA · Moon

Next: Artemis III, scheduled for 2027, a demonstration mission in low Earth orbit to test one or both commercial landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin

last verified 22 Aug 2026

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Intelligence

The systems behind the missions

BusinessCompanies, capital, contracts and marketsSecurityThreats to spacecraft and infrastructureDefenceState capability: programmes and budgetsPolicyThe laws and decisions shaping orbit

Data

The orbital environment in numbers

Orbit16,278Active satellites · 13 Aug 2026Launch cadence2122026 orbital attempts · 205 of 212 succeeded; April's New Glenn flight is the one partial failure among the sevenMarket7 listed companiesclose, 4 September 2026Environment≈46,590Catalogued objects · 31 Jul 2026
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