The Wangyu Lunar EVA suit will complete its electrical, structural, and thermal control environment test in 2026.

The Wangyu Lunar EVA suit will enter the Flight model R&D Phase after completing its tests.

The data on launch attempts was compiled by astronomer Jonathan McDowell.

321 of the rocket launch attempts in 2025 reached orbit or near orbit.

Rockets attempted to lift off 329 times around the world in 2025.

The transaction marks L3Harris Technologies' first major transaction of 2026.

Rocketdyne is returning to prominence as L3Harris Technologies divests its propulsion business.

L3Harris Technologies is selling the majority of its propulsion business to AEI for $845 million.

NASA has a positive budget proposal for 2026.

NASA has a permanent administrator after nearly a year of interim leadership.

Array Labs raised $20 million in Series A funding on January 5, 2026.

The plasma technology is used in semiconductor manufacturing processes, including crystal film generation.

With the new funding, Array Labs plans to expand its engineering, product, and sales teams, as well as increase production capabilities for radar panels.

ForgeStar-1 will continue experiments analyzing plasma behavior in microgravity and is scheduled to re-enter the atmosphere in a controlled manner.

The contract amount for the research on gripping mechanisms is approximately 1 billion yen, with a contract period from December 2025 to March 2028.

株式会社アストロスケール previously secured its first contract with the Ministry of Defense in February of the previous year.

株式会社宇宙不動産 was established as a group company to manage negotiation and contract practices within the Deal Tech initiative.

Array Labs was originally established to build a small satellite constellation for creating real-time 3D maps of Earth but is now focusing on developing and manufacturing radar devices for satellites.

株式会社アストロスケール received a contract from the Ministry of Defense for researching satellite monitoring and defense technologies on January 5, 2026.

The project will develop a gripping mechanism and a general gripping system necessary for docking auxiliary satellites used for inspecting and continuing operations of domestic satellites in orbit.

Space Forge announced on December 31, 2025, that its satellite ForgeStar-1 successfully demonstrated plasma generation technology.

株式会社WHERE aims to acquire off-market real estate information, improve data accuracy, build a signal model to prioritize approaches, enhance project management capabilities, and implement a transaction reward model for the Deal Tech initiative.

Space Forge aims to realize a hybrid manufacturing model where crystals produced in space are processed on Earth.

株式会社WHERE announced the launch of its deal support initiative called 'Deal Tech' on January 5, 2026.

'Deal Tech' will handle negotiations and contract processes with landowners identified through the WHERE real estate exploration service.

Space Forge confirmed that it can generate and control extreme environments necessary for crystal growth aboard an autonomous platform in low Earth orbit.

The funding round for Photonic was led by the U.K.’s Planet First Partners.

Photonic is a Vancouver-based quantum technology startup.

The funding round for Photonic includes first-time investors Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and TELUS.

Photonic has raised $180 million in its latest funding round.

Space Concordia is co-hosting the Canadian CubeSat Conference.

SEDS Canada is organizing the Canadian CubeSat Conference.

Tellus signed a joint research contract with the Graduate School of Advanced Studies, University of Tokyo on December 1, 2025, aimed at developing foundational technologies for AI agents that realize autonomous information extraction and decision support in satellite data analysis.

Tellus plans to utilize its service 'Tellus AI Playground' to develop and verify AI models based on satellite data, enabling automatic recognition, interactive analysis, and task generation from satellite images.

Tellus currently handles 44 types of satellite data and 2 types of ground data from both government and commercial sources.

As of the end of November 2025, Tellus had 42,845 registered users and had exceeded annual downloads of 530,000 scenes.

Tellus aims to support the creation of new businesses based on satellite data and expand the domestic and international space information industry market, with a goal of establishing space industry as a key industry.

If light emission from the object is observed, it could suggest that it is an anomalous ultracompact dwarf galaxy.

Simona Vegetti, from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, described the task of separating mass components from a distant, low-mass object as extremely challenging yet exciting.

The gravitational lensing phenomenon was used to study the universe as predicted by general relativity.

The body has a mass of approximately one million solar masses and is located 6.5 billion light-years away.

Giulia Despali, a co-author and researcher at the University of Bologna, indicated that the models of cold and warm dark matter could not explain the observed object.

New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope may provide further insights into the nature of the object.

Gravitational lensing can amplify signals from distant sources by enlarging their images.

The presence of the body was revealed only by gravitational effects, making it invisible otherwise.

All three recorded cases display properties that do not easily fit the standard model of dark matter, highlighting the need for more examples to understand if they are anomalies or indicators of new physics.

The object's profile is particularly dense at the center but extends significantly, suggesting it is not uniformly distributed.

Researchers reconstructed the density profile of the mysterious object to understand how its mass is distributed in space.

The gravitational lensing in the Jvas B1938+666 system is produced mainly by a massive elliptical galaxy.

Radio telescopes, including the Green Bank Telescope and VLBA and EVN networks, collected amplified signals from a source approximately 11 billion light-years away.