{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Space Stakes: The Business of the New Space Race","title":"Weekend Bonus: 150 Launches Missing, and the Public Bets to Fill — October 31, 2026","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/976ad92b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":740,"description":"This Weekend Bonus examines a launch-supply estimate, U.S. civil-space allocations and European bets on connectivity and orbital capability. It also looks at NASA’s request for Hubble servicing concepts and the difference between current growth and a long-range revenue target.\nAnalysts find looming launch crisis is “more severe” than anticipated — Ars Technica\nGovernment Spending on Civil Space Topped $42 Billion in FY2026 — SpacePolicyOnline.com\nMDA Space to Build Antenna Subsystems for 66 IRIS² LEO Satellites — Via Satellite\nUK MOD Awards £15 Million Orbital Warfare Project to Astroscale — European Spaceflight\nNASA Explores Potential Commercial Servicing for Hubble Telescope — NASA\nEutelsat Sets 10B Target for OneWeb Revenue from 2032 to 2040 — Via Satellite\nChapters\n00:00 Today's headlines\n00:56 Quilty Space estimates missing launches\n02:34 Civil-space allocations total $42.6 billion\n04:24 MDA Space authorization for IRIS2 antennas\n06:03 Astroscale UK to lead Project LEDA\n07:46 NASA asks industry for Hubble concepts\n09:27 Eutelsat OneWeb growth and IRIS2 target\nSpace Stakes is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.\nFollow Space Stakes: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · Spotify\nMore from Brian Lampert: Quickly Quantum, the daily quantum computing briefing, and Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing. Transcripts and every episode: space-stakes.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nyaLFXa2ttfx9M9mPzUM3GElEJH7pfmkmAcNiSR-ELQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZGY1/NTM1MDE3MTIwNjMx/ZDJhOGJmOGM4OGZl/ODFhOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}