The European Space Agency is holding a full-day online post-CM25 industry event on January 14, 2026, where ESA management will present the results of the Ministerial Council in Bremen, announce new programs, define strategic priorities, and explain where opportunities are opening for companies of all sizes.
The new Galileo L14 mission brought SAT 33 and SAT 34 satellites into orbit on an Ariane 6 rocket, solidifying European autonomy in space access and global navigation. Their role is to strengthen the precision, resilience, and security of services upon which the economy and daily life in Europe and the world rely.
New P160C rocket motor strengthens Europe's independence in space access and ensures a more powerful start of flight. As a common booster for Ariane 6 and Vega, it increases payload, opens up space for more commercial missions, supports institutional projects, and enables a more stable launch pace from the Guiana Space Centre.
NASA's IXPE satellite has achieved its longest observation of the Perseus cluster of galaxies and finally revealed where X-rays come from in the jet of the supermassive black hole 3C 84. An international team showed that synchrotron self-Compton scattering in the jet itself plays a key role. The result opens a new chapter in understanding black hole jets and their role in galaxy evolution.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with the HiRISE camera, after nearly two decades in orbit around the Red Planet, captured its 100,000th photograph, a historical frame of the Syrtis Major region revealing dynamic dunes, mesas, and traces of changing Martian winds. It further emphasizes the mission's role in future exploration and planning for human missions.
The latest James Webb telescope image of the month unveils the young cluster Westerlund 2 in the Gum 29 nebula, filled with thousands of hot stars, brown dwarfs, and disks where planets form, revealing how an extreme environment shapes star systems in our galaxy and their future evolution.