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Upcoming Launches You Don't Want to Miss
The Cosmos Will See You Now (Open Cosmos Constellation Launch 1)
Rocket: Electron (Rocket Lab)
Pad: Unknown Pad
Location: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Launch Time: Jan 20, 2026, 11:09 AM
First 2 satellites of UK-based Open Cosmos' secure LEO broadband constellation designed to provide independent and resilient connectivity infrastructure for Europe and the world, using high-priority Ka-band spectrum filings by the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Onward and Upward
Rocket: Spectrum (Isar Aerospace)
Pad: Orbital Launch Pad
Location: Andøya Spaceport
Launch Time: Jan 21, 2026, 8:00 PM
Second test flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle. This launch will carry 5 cubesats and 1 non-separable experiment as part of European Space Agency (ESA)'s “Boost!” program: * CyBEEsat (TU Berlin) * TriSat-S (University of Maribor) * Platform 6 (EnduroSat) * FramSat-1 (NTNU) * SpaceTeamSat1 (TU Wien Space Team) * Let It Go (Dcubed, non-separable experiment)
Starlink Group 17-30
Rocket: Falcon 9 (SpaceX)
Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Launch Time: Jan 22, 2026, 2:43 AM
A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
NS-38
Rocket: New Shepard (Blue Origin)
Pad: West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
Location: Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Launch Time: Jan 22, 2026, 2:30 PM
NS-38 is the 17th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 38th in the New Shepard program's history.
Unknown Payload
Rocket: Smart Dragon 3 (China Rocket Co. Ltd.)
Pad: South China Sea (launch location 3)
Location: Haiyang Oriental Spaceport
Launch Time: Jan 25, 2026, 6:30 AM
Possibly an Earth observation satellite for the Pakistan government's SUPARCO, details TBD.
Starlink Group 17-20
Rocket: Falcon 9 (SpaceX)
Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Launch Time: Jan 25, 2026, 3:17 PM
A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Space Industry & Godot (2022):
Help wanted: LunCo Space
Recently, I was invited to join the team at LunCo where we plan to create a space simulation game that features industry real world applications. While similar to games like Kerbal Space and No Man's Sky, LunCo will be feature two game styles - digital twin mode for engineers, and story mode for casual enthusiasts. We also plan to allow user generated content (space crafts, trajectories, factories, etc.) and integration with professional tools like CAD, FEA, MBSE, and more.
For story mode, you are playing as a CEO & Founder of a Lunar exploration company in the near future. You will collect resources, build factories, and manufacture robots to create a sustainable lunar base. From there, it's up to you to turn the Moon into a stepping stone and launch past the stars!
Rocket Lab Special Event (2021):
Rocket Lab ($RKLB) goes public
On Wednesday, August 25th of 2021, Rocket Lab began trading on the Nasdaq, becoming the latest space company to close a merger with a special purpose acquisition company and go public. They closed the first day down slightly at $10.45 per share, under the ticker $RKLB.
“We are super excited to bring a high-quality space asset to the market” Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck told CNBC. “I don’t think it will take long for investors to differentiate between the company that’s consistently delivering and the ones that have aspirations to deliver sometime in the future” he later added.
Astra Special Event (2021):
Astra ($ASTR) goes public
On Wednesday, June 30th of 2021, Astra became the first launch company to be traded publicly on NASDAQ. Trading under the ticker $ASTR, with shares previously listed under the special purpose acquisition company Holicity, the announcement expects to bring in around $500 million in proceeds. Astra's idea is to use the funding to continue to develop their rockets - with a goal of launching as many of it's 40ft tall rockets as it can, aiming to launch one per day by 2025.
“Now we have a space company that everyone can invest in on the public markets,” Astra CEO Chris Kemp told CNBC. “The same kinds of things you do to make a rocket great are the same behaviors that you have to invest in to make a company great. You don’t want any inefficiencies.”
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