February 16-22, 2026 / Hawai`i Island, USA

Vol 45, Week 7: Lunar Broadcast Precursor — Terrestrial Edition

JHU-APL Lunar working groups including LOGIC; IM / ILOA 2nd observation and what's ahead


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Inaugural SpaceNEXT; Texas conventions: finance / space traffic

 

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Humans in Space

⭐ International Space Station, ~415-km LEO: Expedition 74 …..

⭐ Tiangong Space Station, ~390-km LEO: Shenzhou-21….

🌔 Lunar Enterprise News: SpaceX has put off Mars mission planned for this year, shifting its focus to going to the moon first, targeting March 2027 for an uncrewed lunar landing.

☄ Near-Earth Objects Close Approaches  Mon Feb 16: Atira Asteroid 2026 BX4 (0.019 AU); Wed Feb 18: Apollo Asteroid 2026 CU (0.013 AU); Fri Feb 20: Apollo Asteroid 2026 CO (0.011 AU); Sat Feb 21: Apollo Asteroid 2023 CM2 (0.010 AU); Sat Feb 21: Aten Asteroid 2025 DQ (0.007 AU)

The First Woman FLYS to the Moon …

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First Women LAND on the Moon …

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  • Monday

    — SpaceX,
    SLC-40 (~28°N), Cape Canaveral SFS FL, USA
    Launch window 02:05-06:05 EST (21:05 Feb 15 - 01:05 Feb 16 HT) for 29 satellites. Booster B1077 expected to make 26th landing on JRTI ASDS barge in...

    Tuesday

    — SpaceX,
    SLC-40 (~28°N), Cape Canaveral SFS FL, USA
    Launch window 17:00-21:00 EST (12:00-16:00 HT) for 29 satellites. Booster B1092, after this 10th reuse, expected land on JRTI ASDS in the Atlantic Ocean.
    — Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU-APL), Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium (LOGIC),
    Online
    February Working Group meeting, 10:00-11:30 EST (UTC-5). Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium brings together the international and commercial lunar community around adopting, adapting and potentially authoring interoperability standards, ensuring...
    — Lunar Calendar,
    China (Zhongguo) / Worldwide
    Lunar New Year 2026 Spring Festival marks the Year of the Horse.
    — Sun-Earth,
    Global / Inter-Global
    Begins 11:42 UTC (01:42 HST), maximum at 12:13 UTC, creating a "ring of fire" visible primarily over remote parts of Antarctica and the southern ocean; 96% of...

    Wednesday

    — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),
    Mars Surface
    Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover reaches 5 full years / enters 6th year on Mars surface having landed in Jezero Crater on this day in 2021; it carried...
    — Connected DMV,
    Tysons VA, USA
    Inaugural event for visionaries shaping the new space economy, including in-space manufacturing / research and tourism / homesteading, underpinned by technologies in aerospace, robotics, data capabilities. Invited...
    Free – $649
    — Space Foundation,
    Dallas TX, USA
    Focus is on innovative financing models; invited are executives, financiers. investors, public-sector leaders; discussed will be Texas Space Commission US$300M in grant funding. At JW Marriott Dallas...
    $1250 – $1500
    — International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), University of Texas at Austin (UT), Strauss Center for International Security and Law,
    Austin TX, USA
    Sponsored by the Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability (SSSS) Program at The University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) Strauss Center for International Security and Law in partnership with the...

    Thursday

    — Griffith Observatory,
    Los Angeles CA, USA
    Griffith Observatory broadcasts this public program live 19:00-20:30 PST from the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater. Join the Observatory's curatorial staff as they examine and explain the...

    Friday

    — Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO),
    Satish Dhawan Space Center, ~14°N, Sriharikota, India
    Launch window open 16:00-20:00 India Standard Time (UTC+5.5) (00:30-04:30 HT) for Earth-observing satellite to geostationary orbit above India. Expected to be 5th successful launch of GSLV Mk...

    Sunday