By mid-2025 over 500,000 Canadians had signed up for Starlink.

Eutelsat OneWeb and Viasat each hold less than 3% of the Canadian satellite broadband market.

Telesat’s Lightspeed is entering the satellite broadband market but the Lightspeed service is not geared to consumers.

Canada is a top-five market for satellite broadband according to Ookla’s 2025 Global Satellite Broadband Performance Report.

Ookla posted its 2025 Global Satellite Broadband Performance Report.

Amazon LEO is entering the satellite broadband market.

The event at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte takes place at the observatory headquarters on the Miradois hill in Naples.

The event includes references to Napolitan astronomical tradition and nineteenth-century asteroids discovered in Naples such as Parthenope, Hygiea, and Psyche.

The event is organized in four entry turns at 19:00, 19:40, 20:20, and 21:00.

The ticket price for the event is 6 euros per person with online reservation required.

Telescopes will be installed in the observatory piazza for direct sky observation during the event.

Instruments during the observations will be pointed at Jupiter and the principal stars of the constellation Orion.

The temporary exhibition 'Bellebbuono. Improvvisamente il meteo a Napoli' links art, science, and meteorology with a focus on atmospheric phenomena affecting urban and coastal areas.

Visitors will be received inside the observatory planetarium where astronomers will guide a program focused on major deep-sky objects.

INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte is organizing a public astronomy event in Naples on February 13, 2026 starting at 19:00.

The planetarium presentation will illustrate planets, stars, and galaxies observable in the winter season.

The observational sessions are carried out in collaboration with the Unione Astrofili Napoletani.

The event program includes an evening opening dedicated to sky observation, planetarium activities, a temporary exhibition visit, and live astronomical observations.

A valve associated with pressurization of the Orion crew module hatch that had been recently replaced required a readjustment and closure operations took longer than planned.

Crew members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen suspended their quarantine that began on January 21 and will not return to quarantine until two weeks before a newly scheduled launch date.

The European Space Agency supplied the European Service Module (ESM) that will provide water, air, electricity, and thermal comfort to Artemis II astronauts during the mission.

Engineers stopped the flow of liquid hydrogen to the SLS core stage, warmed the umbilical interface to allow seals to reseat, and adjusted propellant flow to address the leak.

A liquid hydrogen leak was detected in the umbilical interface of the tail service mast during Artemis II testing.

The launch control team is working to place the SLS (Space Launch System) in a safe configuration and begin draining its tanks.

Artemis I experienced multiple liquid hydrogen leaks in 2022 and delayed its launch.

China plans to land humans on the Moon before 2030.

Four Spanish companies—Airbus, ALTER, GMV, and HV Sistemas—are participating in the Artemis II project.

NASA postponed the Artemis II launch until at least March.

Engineers had to troubleshoot repeated interruptions of audio communication channels between ground teams in the weeks before the wet dress rehearsal and during the wet dress rehearsal with propellant.

Artemis II is the crewed follow-on mission to Artemis I, which orbited the Moon without a crew.

The Artemis program is the United States' flagship initiative to return humans to the Moon and to enable future crewed missions to Mars.

The countdown of the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal was interrupted due to a liquid hydrogen leak in the tail service mast umbilical interface.

Vantor (formerly Maxar Intelligence) was awarded a $5.3 million contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on February 5, 2026 under the Luno B program.

Vantor will provide the intelligence community with high-fidelity insights into shifts in buildings, roads, vegetation, and ground disturbances under the Luno B contract.

The Luno B contract positions Vantor to provide foundational geospatial intelligence that powers approximately 90% of the U.S. government’s current spatial awareness.

The Luno A phase focused on object detection, including tracking aircraft and ships.

Susanne Hake is Executive Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Government at Vantor.

The NGA’s Luno program is an agile acquisition strategy designed to harness innovation from the commercial geospatial industry for national security.

Vantor’s proprietary AI models are designed to achieve precise, pixel-level alignment across diverse sensor types and varying viewing angles and resolutions.

The automated insights produced for Luno B are intended to support monitoring regional conflicts, assessing natural and man-made disasters, and coordinating humanitarian assistance.

Vantor will integrate data from its own high-resolution imaging satellites with third-party electro-optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar constellations for Luno B.

Vantor’s AI-enabled global monitoring for Luno B will enable the NGA to maintain an up-to-date digital twin or living globe and reduce manual analyst workload.

Vantor’s Luno B task will automate detection of real-time changes to the Earth’s landscape using artificial intelligence.

The Luno B project emphasizes Land Use Land Cover (LULC) characterization rather than solely object detection.

Logos Space was founded by Milo Medin and Rama Akella.

On February 5, 2026 the Federal Communications Commission granted Logos Space Services, Inc. authority to construct, launch, and operate a non-geostationary orbit satellite system.

Logos Space focuses on providing MPLS and Ethernet connectivity for the enterprise market to deliver fiber-like performance without the security vulnerabilities of the public internet.

The FCC’s decision on the Logos application followed extensive technical reviews to assess potential harmful interference with existing satellite systems and undue risk of orbital debris.

Logos Space joins a small group of high-capacity LEO operators including SpaceX’s Starlink and Amazon’s Leo.

Logos Space is positioning its constellation as a secure alternative to consumer-focused networks such as SpaceX’s Starlink.