September 2026
A data-driven analysis of launch activity, funding, market movements, regulatory changes, and technology milestones across the global space industry.
Section 1
33
Total Launches
-6% vs last month
23
Successful
70%
Success Rate
8
Upcoming (30d)
33 orbital launches were attempted this month with a 70% success rate. Launch cadence decreased 6% compared to the prior month. 8 launches are on the manifest for the next 30 days.
Notable Launches
Spectrum | Onward and Upward
2026-09-05 · Isar Aerospace · Spectrum
GSLV Mk II | GISAT-1A (EOS-05)
2026-09-03 · Indian Space Research Organization · GSLV Mk. II
BepiColombo Mercury Arrival
2026-09-03
Electron | Owl Around The World (StriX Launch 11)
2026-09-02 · Rocket Lab · Electron
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-23
2026-09-02 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Upcoming Launches
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-24
2026-09-06 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Progress MS-33 Undocking
2026-09-07
Long March 2D/YZ-3 | Unknown Payload
2026-09-09 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 2D/YZ-3
Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P)
2026-09-09 · Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) · Soyuz 2.1b
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-153
2026-09-10 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
2026-09-11 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 8A
Progress MS-35 Docking
2026-09-11
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 11-13
2026-09-13 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Section 2
$1.0B
Total Raised
-53% vs last month
1
Deals Closed
$1.0B
Avg Deal Size
defense
Top Sector
$1.0B
Space companies raised $1.0B across 1 deals this month. Investment pulled back 53% from the prior period. defense led sector funding with $1.0B.
Top Deals
| Company | Amount |
|---|---|
| Castelion | $1.0B |
Section 3
20
Public Companies Tracked
$395.6B
Combined Market Cap
YSS +5.3%
Top Gainer
N/A
Biggest Decliner
20 publicly traded space companies are tracked with a combined market capitalization of $395.6B. York Space Systems (YSS) led gains at +5.3%.
Movers & Shakers
Section 4
5
Regulatory Updates
0
Company Filings
5
Policy News
5 regulatory developments were tracked this month including 0 company filings and 5 policy news items. Space regulation continues to evolve as commercial activity scales and international coordination intensifies.
Notable Headlines
Star formation across the cosmos has fallen by roughly 59 per cent in 4.5 billion years, yet its reservoir of neutral atomic hydrogen declined by only about 11 to 26 per cent—a mismatch that rules out rapid loss of atomic gas as the primary cause and shifts the mystery to how galaxies convert that gas into star-forming molecular clouds.
SpaceDaily · 2026-09-05
The IAC 2026 is the One Space Event You Cannot Miss
Space in Africa · 2026-09-04
White House pressure for US firms to skip French space summit is ‘unfortunate,’ insiders say
Defense One · 2026-09-03
Is Commerce The Solution To All Space Things?
NASA Watch · 2026-09-03
OSTP To U.S. Space Companies: Skip That French Space Summit
NASA Watch · 2026-09-03
Section 5
0
Major Milestones
4
Tech Stories
0 significant technology milestones were achieved this month across the space industry. Innovation continues across propulsion, satellite communications, Earth observation, and in-space manufacturing.
Notable Headlines
NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider
NASA Technology · 2026-09-01
Copernicus Trajectory Design and Optimization System
NASA Technology · 2026-08-21
NASA Data Helps Commercial Space Plan Living Off Our Moon
NASA Technology · 2026-08-12
NASA Completes Astronaut-Deployed Science Instrument for Lunar Surface
NASA Technology · 2026-08-11
Section 6
10
Scheduled Launches
0
Key Events
Looking ahead: 10 launches are scheduled over the next 30 days. Next up: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-24 (2026-09-06). Key themes to watch include commercial crew rotations, constellation deployment cadence, and defense procurement timelines.
Upcoming Launches
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-24
2026-09-06 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Progress MS-33 Undocking
2026-09-07
Long March 2D/YZ-3 | Unknown Payload
2026-09-09 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 2D/YZ-3
Soyuz 2.1b | Progress MS-35 (96P)
2026-09-09 · Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) · Soyuz 2.1b
Falcon 9 Block 5 | USSF-153
2026-09-10 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
2026-09-11 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 8A
Progress MS-35 Docking
2026-09-11
Falcon 9 Block 5 | O3b mPower 11-13
2026-09-13 · SpaceX · Falcon 9 Block 5
Vega-C | Sentinel-3C & FLEX
2026-09-15 · Avio S.p.A · Vega-C
Long March 12A | Flight 2
2026-09-30 · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Long March 12A
Section 7
2343
News Articles Tracked
331
Companies Monitored
50+
Data Sources
30+
Automated Pipelines
SpaceNexus tracked 2343 industry news articles and monitored 331 companies this month across 50+ data sources including NASA, NOAA, SEC, CelesTrak, and SAM.gov.
Notable Headlines
What Do Solar Storms Mean for GPS and Self-Driving Cars?
New Space Economy · 2026-09-06
Jupiter’s north pole is dominated not by one storm but by a central cyclone surrounded by eight others, each thousands of kilometres wide — and NASA’s Juno team revealed in April 2025 that they push against their neighbours and bounce around their positions like masses connected by springs, preserving a strange geometric formation unlike anything yet observed beyond Jupiter.
SpaceDaily · 2026-09-06
What Does Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum Launch Change for Europe’s Access to Space?
New Space Economy · 2026-09-06
From January 1994 to March 1995, cosmonaut-physician Valeri Polyakov spent 437 consecutive days aboard Mir, circling Earth 7,075 times and travelling nearly 187 million miles to test whether a human could endure a Mars-length mission—and more than three decades later, no one has broken his record for a single continuous spaceflight.
SpaceDaily · 2026-09-06
Kymeta Secures $20 Million Department of Defense Order for Resilient Flat-Panel SATCOM Terminals
SatNews · 2026-09-06
The same scientists who reported water erupting from Europa in 2014 have now reanalysed 14 years of Hubble data and cut their confidence from 99.9% to below 90%. The signal may have been statistical noise, leaving Europa’s famous geysers physically plausible—but never conclusively observed, and never proven to connect with the ocean below.
SpaceDaily · 2026-09-05
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 80th Starlink mission of 2026
Spaceflight Now · 2026-09-05
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Strange “Honeycomb” Landscape on Mars
SciTechDaily Space · 2026-09-05
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Published by the SpaceNexus Intelligence Team using data from NASA, NOAA, SEC, CelesTrak, SAM.gov, and 50+ additional sources.