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Launch infrastructure
LC-36B, new processing buildings and a hybrid integration flow would divide work between two pads. Neither 9x4’s debut nor the repaired LC-36A’s next launch has an exact date.
Launch
Long March 12 carried nine catalogued spacecraft in the 24th Guowang batch, and Long March 2C placed the UAE’s SEO satellite into orbit; the earlier failure remains unexplained.
Science
The machine-learning model uses acoustic-power changes and weak magnetic signals to project solar-surface brightness 12 hours ahead, but the result is not yet a real-time solar-storm forecast.
Science
The arcs’ changing geometry supports progressive stripping and a roughly 10,000-year coherence time, not a direct clock for every stage of interstellar mixing.
Satellite communications
The IM-1300 will underpin design, manufacturing, integration and support for multiple spacecraft. The customer, delivery calendar and most programme terms remain undisclosed.
Earth observation
The company would supply the spacecraft, integrate JPL’s imaging spectrometer and run ground and mission operations. NASA lists the Earth-observation launch no earlier than 2028.
Science
Two broad-line sources sit 190 ± 40 parsecs apart in projection, while a third is 1.7 kiloparsecs from the primary. The spectra do not show whether that outer object is falling inward or escaping.
Launch
The Y2 flight put Honghu 03 into orbit and returned its first stage to a pad in Gansu. The landing proves recovery on this mission, not yet refurbishment or reflight.
Military space acquisition
The Space Force deal covers multiple spacecraft and includes an option for more, but the number of Flatellites, Neutron flights and launch dates remain undisclosed. SB-AMTI’s later operational capability depends on programme-wide sensing, processing and orchestration work.
U.S.-Japan space security
The second U.S. optical payload launched with Japan’s QZS-7, completing the two-launch plan. The Space Force named an operator and data destination but did not announce first light, checkout completion or operational acceptance.
Astronomy surveys
The public Legacy Survey release combines 263,407 telescope exposures into a catalogue of nearly four billion sources across roughly three-quarters of the sky. It records where objects appear and how bright they are; DESI’s separate spectroscopic survey supplies the redshift measurements used to place selected galaxies and quasars in three dimensions.
Launch industry
The reported date is at least nine months later than a Q1 2026 target disclosed to Parliament, although first-stage stacking began in December. No reviewed source gives a cause.