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Space news: launches, missions and the sky above
Latest report · November 15, 2026
Jspace News covers rocket launches, space missions, astronomy and the space industry, reported from agency and mission sources and checked before we publish.
Missions Explainer
JAXA's Mio website shows November 21 for the Japanese-European probe's arrival after eight years and nine flybys, and December 10 for Mio's separation.
A coronal mass ejection seen leaving the Sun late on November 14 could deliver a glancing blow late on November 17 or early November 18 (UTC), forecasters say.
Astronomy Explainer
Phobos and Deimos may be captured asteroids or debris from a giant impact on Mars. JAXA's MMX, launched in October, aims to bring a Phobos sample home in 2031.
Launches Explainer
From the failed first launch in March 2023 to the MMX Mars-moon probe in October 2026: the H3's record as JAXA gives it, and what is listed next.
The Montreal company, listed on NYSE American after an October 1 merger, got about 98% of quarterly revenue from one Canadian military space unit.
The latest reports, newest first.
AST wants Blacklift flying from late 2028, carrying up to five BlueBirds at a time. Until then it relies on SpaceX, Blue Origin and others, its filings show.
The 200-second firing on November 5 matched predictions, ISRO said. The engine is to fly on GSLV-F19 with the NVS-04 satellite; no launch date was given.
Launches Explainer
CRS-25 is targeted to launch on a Falcon 9 no earlier than November 29. The Cygnus XL is then to stay at the station until May 2027.
Each probe's roughly nine-minute burn came at its closest pass of Earth, on November 7 and 9. Both are due to reach Mars in September 2027.
NASA's rover team chose the Nazca block for its disc- and needle-shaped forms, which one idea says grew as crystals. Lab results were still to come.
Four volunteers left NASA's mock Mars habitat in Houston on October 31 after 378 days; nobody left Earth. Two weeks of debriefs follow.
Four CSIRO researchers report a 42.2-microarcsecond ring from telescope data combined in triplets, in line with the Event Horizon Telescope's 2019 result.
Gemini North and Webb data point to two feeding black holes about 18,100 light-years apart, but NOIRLab says lensing is not yet fully ruled out.
Astronomy Explainer
Astronomers chain parallax, stars of known brightness and redshift to span the universe, and the expansion rate they give disagrees with a second method.
SWPC ties the likely G1 days to coronal-hole solar wind. At G1, NOAA says, auroras are commonly visible at high latitudes such as northern Michigan and Maine.
Sky Watch Explainer
Mars and Jupiter appear 1.2 degrees apart on November 15-16, the Leonids peak around November 17 and a supermoon follows on November 24.
It also set up a program to sell up to $250 million in stock, and its quarterly report says there is substantial doubt it can continue as a going concern.
Spacecraft and defense software work drove the rise, and the net loss narrowed to $94.2 million. Firefly expects 2026 revenue of $440 million to $450 million.
The proposals, open for comment until December 9, would change how operators show protection against multiple-casualty events. A fourth rule fixes errors.
Headlines as each source published them, with links to the original releases.