Health, handoffs, and heavy launch commitments in orbit.

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke hands command of Expedition 74 to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov ahead of Crew 11’s departure from the International Space Station (ISS). US Space Systems Command (SSC) awards $739 million in launch contracts to SpaceX. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying NASA’s Pandora planet observing satellite along with 39 payloads as part of the Twilight rideshare mission, and more.



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Parker Wishik (  / parkerwishik  ) , Senior Communications Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation (https://aerospace.org/) , is joined by Brandon Bailey (https://aerospace.org/person/brandon-...) , Principal Engineer for the Cybersecurity and Advanced Platforms Subdivision (CAPS) at The Aerospace Corporation. (https://aerospace.org/sparta)








Selected Reading



NASA, SpaceX Set Target Date for Crew-11’s Return to Earth (https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercial...)



Change of Command of International Space Station to Occur - NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestati...)



Mike Finke LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/posts/e-michael-f...)



Space Systems Command Awards Task Orders to Launch Missile Warning and Missile Tracking Space- Space Systems Command  (https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsro...)



Liftoff of NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite (https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/smallsatel...)



SpaceX - Twilight Mission (https://www.spacex.com/launches/twilight)



Spire Global Successfully Launches 9 Satellites on SpaceX’s Twilight Mission (https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...)



HawkEye 360 Successfully Launches Cluster 13 and Establishes Initial Communications (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...)



Indian rocket launch loses control after liftoff in fresh blow to ISRO- Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/science/india...)



Eutelsat Procures a Further 340 OneWeb Low Earth Orbit Satellites From Airbus (https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...)



ispace Initiates New Entity in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Advance Lunar Exploration Partnerships (https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=8377)



Mitsubishi Corporation Joins Starlab as Major Space Station Customer (https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom...)



IEEE's Highest Honors: Meet the 2026 Pioneers Transforming Our World Through Technology (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...)



NASA to roll out rocket for Artemis 2 moon mission on Jan. 17- Space (https://www.space.com/space-explorati...)




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