Space Stakes: The Business of the New Space Race

The money, missions, and power shaping space. Space Stakes is a daily briefing on the business of the new space race — launches, contracts, constellations, and the capital behind them. Every episode cuts through the industry's hype: signed contracts vs. paper constellations, funded orders vs. "up to" ceilings, launch dates vs. track records. Who pays, who profits, and who actually delivers — told so both aerospace insiders and curious newcomers finish feeling it was made for them. Space Stakes is an AI-voiced podcast, created and built by a real human, Brian Lampert. Nothing on this show is financial advice.

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  Episode #7

  August 22, 2026 — Weekly Recap: A $71 Billion Ask and a Launch Market in Crisis

  Aug 22, 202617 minS0

  <p>This week's recap: a launch market so hot it's straining the operators depending on it, the White House's answer with a thousand-launches-a-year target, a record $71 billion Space Force budget request, a Golden Dome cost fight nobody can fully verify, two abrupt CEO exits, a Chinese booster landing, a quarter-billion-dollar funding round, and a historic spacewalk.</p>Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis — Ars Technica / aggregatorsWhite House Releases New Space Transportation Policy — SpacePolicyOnline.comL3Harris names space sector leader Sam Mehta CEO after Kubasik steps down — SpaceNewsUnited Launch Alliance Appoints Mark Peller as President and CE...

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  Episode #6

  August 21, 2026 — A Thousand Launches by 2030 — Without the Money to Build It

  Aug 21, 202618 minS0

  <p>The White House signed off on a new National Space Transportation Policy setting a goal of a thousand launches and reentries a year by 2030 — heavy on infrastructure directives, light on appropriated money. Plus: SpaceX's reported Louisiana Starship spaceport, Golden Dome's funding fight, Ariane 6's shelved Block 3 upgrade, Taiwan's first rocket test, and the Space Force's newest STRATFI awards.</p>Linked sources: National Security Presidential Memorandum NSPM-17 — The White HouseFact Sheet: The Golden Age of Space Transportation — The White HouseNew space transportation policy focuses on increased launch rates — SpaceNewsSpaceX Expected To Add Starship Base In Louisiana — Aviation WeekGolden Dome chief touts prog...

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  Episode #5

  August 20, 2026 — Space Force's $71 Billion Ask, and Last Year's Missing $8 Billion

  Aug 20, 202616 minS0

  <p>The Space Force wants $71 billion for FY2027, more than double its current budget — but the number splits into a likely $59.2 billion in appropriations and a shaky $12.1 billion riding on an unprecedented third reconciliation bill, with last year's bookkeeping still missing $8 billion. Also today: Muon Space joins the satellite-manufacturing unicorn race, hypersonic missile startup Castelion raises over $1 billion, with investor Carlyle putting its valuation at $13 billion, NASA calls off its Swift observatory rescue, and Stoke Space keeps closing in on Nova's debut.</p>Linked sources: Space Force Funding Could Be Record High, If Congress Agrees — SpacePolicyOnline.comFY 2027 Defense Space Budget anal...

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  Episode #4

  August 19, 2026 — LandSpace Stuck the Landing — Now Comes the Hard Part

  Aug 19, 202616 minS0

  <p>LandSpace lands the Zhuque-3 booster on its second flight, becoming the third organization on Earth to stick a leg landing — the show asks whether recovery is turning into reuse. Plus: Rocket Lab's Space Force network test, NASA's expanded processing contract, a nuclear heater booked for the Moon, SpaceX's salvaged Starship, a historic French spacewalk, and the Pentagon's dual-use debris cleanup research.</p>China's LandSpace recovers booster with second orbital launch of Zhuque-3 rocket — SpaceNewsRocket Lab to test Space Force data network connection in orbit in 2027 — SpaceNewsNASA adds Blue Origin, Firefly, L3Harris to $100M SPOC contract — NASA Kennedy Space Center o...

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  Episode #3

  August 18, 2026 — The Launch Crunch Reaches the Balance Sheet

  Aug 18, 202617 minS0

  <p>Launch scarcity stops being a talking point and starts showing up in corporate strategy: AST SpaceMobile tells investors it may need to buy or partner its way into launch capacity after New Glenn's May explosion and Vulcan's continued grounding collide with its BlueBird deployment plans. Plus: Rocket Lab's second national-security GEO satellite deal this year, ULA finally names a permanent CEO, the Pentagon funds deorbit-as-a-service designs, and the NRO makes HawkEye 360 an operational data supplier.</p>Linked sources: Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis — Ars TechnicaSatellite operators emphasize launch deals in a constrained ma...

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