Blue Origin Rebuilds Blasted Pad Toward Year-End Return Target — October 12, 2026

Blue Origin is rebuilding Launch Complex 36 after New Glenn's May pad explosion and is targeting a December return-to-flight mission. The episode also covers a warning about commercial satellite vulnerability, a Starship analysis shared on X, and NASA's Antarctic sea-ice observations. Blue Origin Advances LC-36 Rebuild for Year-End New Glenn Return to Flight — NASASpaceFlight.com German Space Command warning on commercial satellite networks — SpaceWatch.GLOBAL Adam Jonas's Starship analysis — shared by @SawyerMerritt on X Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Its 2026 Maximum — NASA Chapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:41 Germany's warning on Russian satellites 02:03 Antarctic sea ice third-lowest maximum 03:10 Blue Origin rebuilding Launch Complex 36 05:38 Hype check: New Glenn rebuild evidence Source links @XploraSpace on X 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 .