Programmes & rockets

Missions, vehicles and observatories in the news, ranked by stories in the last 30 days.

Programme	Owner	Stories · 30d	Latest headline
James Webb Space Telescope	NASA	30	JWST Reveals Refractory-Rich Water Ice in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Evidence for a Continuum of Grain Properties across Protoplanetary Disks
International Space Station	NASA	28	Adaptability is key for Josh Kutryk as long-delayed ISS mission nears
Hubble	NASA	24	Hubble Network Secures $200 Million Series C Round at $1.6 Billion Valuation for Bluetooth Constellation
Ariane 6	Arianespace	21	EU Projects 14 Annual Ariane 6 Launches Required by 2031, Exceeding Current Production Capacity
Starlink	SpaceX	20	Forecast: 47m Starlink subs by 2028
Artemis	NASA	19	Isaacman Promises ‘Artemis Acceleration’ Update Next Month
Falcon 9	SpaceX	17	Coming to terms with the end of the Falcon 9
Starship	SpaceX	16	Starship Is About to Attempt Something It’s Never Done in 13 Flights
Mars exploration	NASA	6	Perseverance Reveals How Complex Water Systems Shaped the Jezero Crater on Early Mars
Dragon	SpaceX	3	Expedition 75 astronauts continue science work as Crew-13 readies for launch
Electron & Neutron	Rocket Lab	1	Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: 'We are awaiting Neutron readiness'
Starliner	Boeing	1	Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner in June 2024 for an eight-day test flight and came home on a SpaceX capsule 286 days later—not because they were chasing a record, but because NASA judged the propulsion problems on the spacecraft that carried them there too uncertain to risk bringing them back.
Tiangong	CNSA	1	As of September 2026, humanity has two continuously crewed space stations: China’s Tiangong, occupied without interruption since 2022, and the International Space Station. If the ISS retires around 2030 before replacement stations are ready, Tiangong could become the only permanently inhabited outpost in Earth orbit.
Gaganyaan	ISRO	1	Spectro-polarimetry of HAbitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) on Chandrayaan-3: Instrument Characteristics, Calibration and Onboard Performance
SLS	NASA	0
New Glenn	Blue Origin	0	Blue Origin traces origin of huge New Glenn rocket explosion to oxygen valve, CEO says
New Shepard	Blue Origin	0	Space tourism briefly had two competing suborbital operators. By 2026, neither was actually flying: Blue Origin had paused New Shepard for at least two years, while Virgin Galactic’s next passenger flight slipped to February 2027 — and its entire latest batch of $750,000 seats had already sold out.
Vulcan	ULA	0
Soyuz	Roscosmos	0	Ukraine Strikes Soyuz Assembly Line, Raising Questions for Russian Spaceflight
Chang'e	CNSA	0	Bad weather delays launch of China's historic Chang'e 7 mission to moon's south pole
Long March	CNSA	0	China bounces back from Long March rocket explosion with back-to-back launches (video)
Project Kuiper	Amazon Kuiper	0