Overview
- JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui shared a brief ISS video showing green and violet auroras sweeping over Earth.
- NASA confirmed Crew-11’s SpaceX Dragon undocked from the ISS and splashed down off California with recovery and medical checks completed.
- Roscosmos cosmonaut Serguéi Kud-Sverchkov holds command of the station with three people aboard, and a planned spacewalk was canceled.
- NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center expects a G1 geomagnetic storm Jan. 16–17 that could make auroras visible across parts of the northern United States, depending on conditions.
- Crew-12 is slated to launch in mid-February to restore the station’s usual staffing and operations cadence.