NOTAM A0526/26 establishes a temporary danger/impact area with coordinates 76°22′00″N 021°55′00″E – 75°24′00″N 024°43′00″E – 74°51′00″N 021°45′00″E – 75°50′00″N 018°50′00″E for the Russian space launch.

NOTAM A0526/26 also identifies a separate activity area in unallocated international airspace with corner coordinates including 70°56′00″N 032°05′00″E, 70°10′00″N 032°05′00″E, 70°09′28″N 032°01′52″E, and 70°15′00″N 031°50′00″E.

NOTAM A0526/26 defines daily launch windows from 2026-02-02 to 2026-02-12 between 15:00 UTC and 22:00 UTC.

A Soyuz-2.1a/b rocket is scheduled to launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

The CZ-12B inaugural launch will include a recovery attempt.

China Commercial Rocket held its 2026 annual work conference on the morning of January 27, 2026.

The CZ-12A recovery attempt was announced two months before the CZ-12B recovery wording appeared.

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Commercial Rocket Co., Ltd. is referred to as China Commercial Rocket.

He Wensong delivered a work report at China Commercial Rocket’s 2026 annual work conference titled "Striving Forward with High Spirits and Fighting to Win the First Flight and Recovery Success, Opening Up and Integrating, Taking Advantage of the Momentum, Accelerating the Market-Oriented Transformation and Breakthrough, and Striving to Write a New Chapter in the High-Quality Development of Commercial Rockets."

The 2026 annual work conference at China Commercial Rocket was chaired by Wang Wenjie, General Manager of the company.

The unified group combines Anywaves’ antenna design expertise and EmTroniX’s advanced radio frequency electronics capabilities to serve telecommunications, Earth observation, and space exploration markets.

Anywaves and EmTroniX previously partnered on the Blue Water Intelligence REVALTO project to jointly develop the RF radar payload.

In Europe, the group will focus on dual-use programs in coordination with the European Space Agency, the Luxembourg Space Agency, and the European Defence Agency.

The group plans to accelerate industrialization of its active antenna and space radar technologies.

The group will leverage the Anywaves US subsidiary, launched in August 2025, to support local assembly and innovation partnerships in the United States.

The group plans to scale its workforce to 150 employees within the next 24 months.

Anywaves provides antenna technology while EmTroniX provides software-defined radio and advanced digital signal processing expertise.

Anywaves and EmTroniX merged to form a unified industrial group on January 27, 2026.

The new group is positioned to streamline manufacturing processes and enhance competitiveness against larger, vertically integrated aerospace conglomerates.

The merged group aims to reduce technical integration risks for satellite prime contractors by offering integrated payload subsystem solutions.

Nicolas Capet, founder of Anywaves, will serve as Chairman of the newly established group.

The merger enables the group to transition from providing individual components to delivering fully integrated payload subsystems.

The unified group currently employs more than 110 specialists across France, Luxembourg, and the United States.

Continuum-1 has about a year of design life remaining with the potential for as many as three years before its demise.

Continuum-1 will act as a testbed for future R&D.

HEO typically captures NEI images using Earth-observation satellites from partner companies during downtime when those satellites are flying over the ocean.

HEO plans to use Continuum-1 to test new image acquisition modes, expand its satellite imagery catalog, and accelerate improvements in its autonomous NEI systems.

NewSat-34 was renamed Continuum-1.

Luciano Giesso is vice president of space systems at Satellogic.

Satellogic sold NewSat-34 as a way to remove operational constraints for customers seeking immediate sovereign access and to offload a satellite nearing the end of its operational life.

HEO plans to demonstrate a rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) maneuver to image another satellite in orbit using Continuum-1.

Continuum-1 will immediately extend HEO's NEI capacity for applications such as imaging spacecraft.

HEO is forming agreements with Australian organizations to utilize Continuum-1 for wildfire monitoring and maritime awareness.

Will Crowe is the CEO of HEO.

HEO purchased Satellogic's NewSat-34.

HEO still plans to partner with other Earth-observation companies where possible.

HEO declined to disclose the purchase cost of Continuum-1.

HEO is an Australian non-Earth imaging (NEI) startup.

OHB Systems is responsible for the MTG-S sounder satellite.

Numerous regions of high atmospheric humidity in the MTG-S moisture image appear dark blue over eastern Africa and at high and low latitudes.

MTG-I's second imager is scheduled to launch later in 2026.

MTG is intended to deliver data for weather and air quality forecasting over Europe.

The MTG-S temperature image shows the warmest dark-red areas primarily over the continents of Africa and South America.

Sentinel-4 delivered its first images in the previous year.

Both images from the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder were acquired on 15 December 2025 by the satellite’s infrared sounder instrument.

EUMETSAT manages the MTG mission control and data distribution.

From its geostationary position over the equator, MTG remains fixed relative to the Earth and continuously observes the same area of the surface.

The MTG-S moisture image does not show outlines of landmasses.

The Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder captured full-disk Earth images from geostationary orbit at approximately 36,000 kilometers altitude.

The MTG-S temperature image shows the west coasts of Namibia and South Africa in red beneath a blue cloud swirl and the northeast coast of Brazil in dark red.