Weekend Bonus: 150 Launches Missing, and the Public Bets to Fill — October 31, 2026

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. Analysts find looming launch crisis is “more severe” than anticipated — Ars Technica Government Spending on Civil Space Topped $42 Billion in FY2026 — SpacePolicyOnline.com MDA Space to Build Antenna Subsystems for 66 IRIS² LEO Satellites — Via Satellite UK MOD Awards £15 Million Orbital Warfare Project to Astroscale — European Spaceflight NASA Explores Potential Commercial Servicing for Hubble Telescope — NASA Eutelsat Sets 10B Target for OneWeb Revenue from 2032 to 2040 — Via Satellite Chapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:56 Quilty Space estimates missing launches 02:34 Civil-space allocations total $42.6 billion 04:24 MDA Space authorization for IRIS2 antennas 06:03 Astroscale UK to lead Project LEDA 07:46 NASA asks industry for Hubble concepts 09:27 Eutelsat OneWeb growth and IRIS2 target 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 .