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This hub is the published archive. For a real-time 7-day data digest (launches, news, funding), see the current Space Industry Brief.
Weekly briefs were paused March–July 2026 and resumed in August 2026 on an automated weekly cadence. Historic editions from before the pause are preserved below.
Space economy week of 2026-09-14: 561 tracked stories, 0 funding rounds, 806 new job postings, and 5 launches on the two-week horizon.
A weekly data brief generated from SpaceNexus tracking over the seven days ending 2026-09-14 (2026-09-07 → 2026-09-14): 561 news items, 0 funding rounds, 5 upcoming launches, and 11,247 open industry positions.
| Metric | This week |
|---|---|
| News stories tracked | 561 |
| Funding rounds recorded | 0 |
| New job postings | 806 |
| Launches in the next 14 days | 5 |
| Date | Mission | Vehicle | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | Sentinel-3C & FLEX | Vega-C | Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana |
| 2026-09-15 | Unknown Payload | Zhuque-2E Block 2 | Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China |
| 2026-09-15 | Unknown Payload | Gravity-1 | Haiyang Oriental Spaceport |
| 2026-09-16 | USSF-259 | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA |
| 2026-09-16 | Progress MS-35 (96P) | Soyuz 2.1b | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan |
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8,842 active job listings: 5,587 of them at private, pre-IPO companies across the space industry right now.
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