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Welcome to Today in Space and this week's Space News Sky Report for September 14th, 2026.

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Sky generates a running daily record of space events, news, and launches, and then audits itself at the end of the week after it pulls the information and trends for us to report on.

I built Sky to help me keep up with the pace of space progress since Artemis II, and it's available to you to access anytime at todayinspace.net.

This week has some strong stories I found on my feed, so let's dive into the Space News Sky Report, talk a little bit about space, and catch you up on what's happening today in space.

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we'll let you know what to watch out for this week tuesday september 15th the vega c sentinel 3c and flex is go for launch with a science payload wednesday september 16th the falcon 9 block 5 for the ussf the united states space force 259 is go for launch also on wednesday later that day the soyuz 2.1b progress ms 35 96p is go that's a station resupply mission And Friday, September 18th, is the earliest that a Starship launch could happen.

How do we respond to that? Well, that takes us to the mystery in space.

Space News and Gizmodo report that about a week after China's satellite imagery helped to kill U.S. forces back in July, one of their spy satellites experienced an anomaly.

It's being described as a fragmentation event, which means that the satellite broke apart into smaller pieces.

But why? Well, we don't have r- public reporting on this, but needless to say, the satellite was ripped apart or blown apart by something, and that's the mystery.

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Let's go to our first story from SpaceNews.com. All right.

The Space Force is going to start work on this next GPS ground system after OCX failed.

The US Space Force is starting work on a new ground control architecture for its future GPS constellation, applying lessons from the 6.27 billion OCX program that the Pentagon canceled earlier this year after 15 years of development.

ISAR Aerospace has a spectrum on the pad at Andoya Spaceport, set to fly tomorrow.

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I wrote an op-ed in Space News called Radiation as a Service.

So we build the facility, you just come use it, and you go on, and you don't have to build all those facilities from scratch.

Of course, there's some things that only state-funded initiatives can do, but I think we want to make sure that we're building cutting-edge fusion generators commercially and offer them as a service to the national security community as well as to other commercial partners.

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