Weekly Recap: Spectrum, NASA's Workforce and SpaceX's Launch Plans — October 10, 2026

This week's recap follows SpaceX's push into direct-to-device connectivity, NASA's proposed workforce shift, Kratos's space-intelligence contracts, Amazon's Leo manufacturing milestone and the FAA's review of proposed Starship operations. Across the stories, regulatory authorization, proposed transactions, contracts, manufactured hardware and operational service remain distinct milestones. FCC Grants SpaceX Approval for 15,000 Direct-to-Device Satellites in MSS Spectrum — Via Satellite SpaceX Moves to Acquire Nationwide Low-Band Spectrum for Starlink Mobile — Via Satellite Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants? — Ars Technica Kratos Reports More Than $100M in Contracts for Space Intelligence Data — Via Satellite Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year — Ars Technica FAA Starship-Super Heavy environmental review scoping — FAA Chapters 00:00 Today's headlines 01:04 SpaceX FCC authorization for satellites 02:49 SpaceX to acquire low-band spectrum 04:32 NASA proposal on contractor positions 06:07 Kratos space-intelligence awards 07:56 Amazon's 1,000th Leo satellite built 09:26 FAA scoping for Starship operations Space Stakes is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. Follow Space Stakes: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · Spotify More 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 .