NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen entered quarantine last Friday as part of preflight preparations for their lunar mission.

NASA's Health Stabilization Program typically begins about 14 days before launch.

NASA has identified five possible launch dates for Artemis II in February: February 6–8 and February 10–11.

The quarantine period for the Artemis II crew is part of NASA's Health Stabilization Program.

The Artemis II crew will begin quarantine in Houston and, if tests and activities progress toward a possible launch next month, will fly to Kennedy Space Center in Florida six days before launch.

The NASA and Department of Defense recovery teams will begin heading to the Orion splashdown site in the days after launch.

Artemis II will not land on the lunar surface nor enter orbit around Earth.

The Artemis II crew will reside in rooms inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building during quarantine.

Teams at Kennedy Space Center are preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft for Artemis II.

NASA has identified backup launch windows for Artemis II in March: March 6–9 and March 11.

NASA has identified backup launch windows for Artemis II in April: April 1, April 3–6, and April 30.

Teams have completed checks of mechanical power systems, cryogenic propellant lines, and engines on Launch Pad 39B.

Artemis II final training activities over the next days will include mission simulations and medical checks.

Artemis II is a roughly ten-day crewed mission around the Moon and is the first crewed flight of NASA's Artemis campaign.

During quarantine the Artemis II astronauts will be able to maintain regular contact with friends, family, and colleagues who meet quarantine requirements, will avoid public places, will wear masks, and will practice distancing while continuing final training activities.

NASA and Department of Defense recovery teams are conducting an at-sea final rehearsal called 'Just-in-time training' to practice recovering the crew and the Orion spacecraft after a Pacific Ocean splashdown.

Tae Oh is Founder of Spacecoin.

Spacecoin envisions the same privacy stack protecting messages, financial transactions, and medical consultations over satellite networks.

The initiative responds to documented internet shutdowns used to mask political crackdowns in Uganda and Iran.

Midnight Foundation’s zero-knowledge proof technology is integrated into the platform to allow users to verify authorization without disclosing sensitive personal data.

The partners plan for the infrastructure to support secure coordination for journalists and private financial transactions over satellite networks.

Fahmi Syed is President of the Midnight Foundation.

The platform will utilize Spacecoin’s satellite constellation to provide permissionless connectivity when terrestrial networks are compromised or intentionally severed.

The partners plan for the infrastructure to support confidential healthcare consultations in remote regions.

Spacecoin and the Midnight Foundation formed a partnership on January 29, 2026 to develop a private peer-to-peer messaging platform.

The partnership is exploring a multi-layered privacy stack designed to eliminate central points of failure.

The proposed messaging platform will leverage a decentralized network of low-Earth orbit small satellites.

The partnership intends to bypass traditional internet gateways prone to censorship, surveillance, and nationwide blackouts.

The report about Germany’s broadband constellation intentions was published by Space Intel Report.

Germany intends to rapidly develop its own broadband satellite constellation that will be interoperable with allied networks.

German military officials communicated Germany’s intent to move quickly on a national broadband constellation to their European counterparts.

Iceye has a valuation of $3 billion.

Iceye Oy is a Finland-based radar satellite manufacturer and operator.

Space Intel Report published a post titled "Iceye: No IPO for now; $300M+ in 2025 rev, $3B valuation & expanding production; asks EU to go faster on secure comms".

Iceye is asking the European Union to accelerate development of secure communications.

Iceye is expanding its production capacity.

Iceye is described as a showcase example of a successful European startup.

Iceye expects more than $300 million in revenue in 2025.

Iceye will not pursue an initial public offering for now.

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan includes space resource development as a named area of focus.

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan includes space tourism as a named area of focus.

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan includes STM as a named area of focus.

China’s space resource development plans include feasibility studies for a program or project named "Tiangong Kaiwu".

Wang Wei, affiliated with CASC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, proposed a four-stage roadmap to create a space resources utilization system spanning the entire Solar System.

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan includes space-based digital infrastructure as a named area of focus.

CASC’s space resource development effort focuses on breakthroughs in key technologies for resource exploration, intelligent autonomous mining, transfer and transportation, and on-orbit processing.

CASC aims to build an experimental and ground support system for space resource development.

Tiangong kaiwu studies are being conducted in the area of resources.

Space tourism development plans include gradually developing orbital space tourism.

Space tourism development plans include implementing flight-based operations for suborbital space tourism.