SpaceNexus Daily · Monday, November 9, 2026
NASA rolls out Moon Base awards at MAX POWER, Payload Space reports
Payload Space reports NASA rolled out Moon Base awards at MAX POWER; SpaceQ reports the ISS has its eighth and final new solar array; Launch Library 2 records a Long March 12 success.
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This is SpaceNexus Daily, for Monday, November 9, 2026.
Space stocks and money
In the trading session of Friday, November 6, the SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index of space stocks rose 7.8 percent, with 27 companies up and 7 down. The largest gain was Firefly Aerospace, up 36.8 percent, and the largest decline was Synspective, down 8.9 percent.
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Sources: SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close); SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close); SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)
NASA Moon Base awards
Payload Space reported that NASA rolled out a stack of Moon Base awards during MAX POWER. The awards range from new lander contracts to a recycled Mars rover, the outlet said.
Sources: Payload Space
Final ISS solar array installed
SpaceQ reported that Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA's Anil Menon installed the International Space Station's eighth and final new solar array on November 5, finishing an upgrade to the station's power system that began in 2021.
Sources: SpaceQ
Sources
- SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)) · on SpaceNexus
- Firefly Aerospace (FLY) (SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)) · on SpaceNexus
- Synspective (290A) (SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)) · on SpaceNexus
- NASA Unveils Moon Base Awards at MAX POWER (Payload Space)
- Weekly ISS update: Kutryk’s second spacewalk adds final array (SpaceQ)
- Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 29 (Launch Library 2) · on SpaceNexus
- Elon Musk spotlights the Starlink rescue that got through where no cell tower could (Teslarati SpaceX)
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-627 (Launch Library 2) · on SpaceNexus
- Mir | Demo Flight (Launch Library 2) · on SpaceNexus
- SpaceNexus jobs board (SpaceNexus jobs board) · on SpaceNexus
Past briefings
- 2026-11-08NASA books PROMISE a ride in Moon Base plan update, NASASpaceFlight reports
- 2026-11-07Launch Library 2 records Falcon 9 USSF-432 launch as a success
- 2026-11-06Final iROSA solar panel installed on ISS, NASASpaceFlight reports
- 2026-11-05SpaceX taps Qualcomm for Starlink Mobile base stations, Via Satellite says
- 2026-11-04New Space Economy reports ESA called ERMIS-3 laser link Greece's first
- 2026-11-03Kinetica 2 and Electron launches recorded as successes
- 2026-11-02One ISS solar array left after Kutryk's spacewalk, SpaceQ reports
- 2026-11-01Telesat delays Lightspeed rollout by three months, SatNews reports
- 2026-10-31Launch Library 2 records Starlink Group 15-18 launch as a success
- 2026-10-30FCC opens D2D spectrum sharing proceeding, Via Satellite reports
- 2026-10-29NASA is two spacewalks from finishing station upgrade, Spaceflight Now says
- Airbus and Thales contracted for 2 Galileo satellites each, Via Satellite reports