Space News for Thursday, October 15, 2026

In this episode, we aggregate and summarize today's top

space news stories. Enjoy!<br>(00:10) Podcast Introduction<br>(00:20) Firefly Aerospace Schedules Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results for November 10<br>(00:52) SpaceX Requests FAA Approval for Up to 456 Starship Launches Annually at Starbase<br>(01:28) Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Austin Spiegel, Sift<br>(02:00) Fires Arrive in the Amazon Rainforest<br>(02:46) NASA to Host News Conference Previewing US Spacewalks 100, 101<br>(03:07) NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students<br>(03:26) Artemis III SLS teams prepare short stack for pad tanking test<br>(03:57) JAXA Taps ArkEdge for Two Lunar Navigation Demos<br>(04:35) Exclusive: In Orbit Aerospace Pivots From Re-entry Vehicles to Spacecraft Autonomy<br>(05:06) Reflect Orbital Buys Two Skyroot Aerospace Launches<br>(05:21) How Space Companies Can Prepare for a Potential Launch Gap<br>(05:48) Watch SpaceX deliver more than 6,000 pounds of cargo to the ISS today<br>(06:28) SpaceX's Starship just turned 10 years old. When will it go to Mars?<br>(07:06) On this day in space! Oct. 14, 1947: Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, the first X-plane<br>(07:54) Life after the moon: Artemis II's Christina Koch steps down from active astronaut duty<br>(08:30) Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation<br>