NASA Spaceflight
• Eleanor Day
SpaceX is scheduled to launch 32 rideshare payloads on its Bandwagon-5 mission from Florida on Monday, Oct. 19. The flight follows the Transporter 18 mission earlier in the month, extending the company’s cadence of dedicated rideshare launches.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: Japan's mission to Mars' moons could answer a decades old question dividing the origins of Phobos and Deimos between two conflicting theories, and make history as the first spacecraft to return to Earth from orbit of the Red Planet.
NASA Spaceflight
• Arran Reid, Chris Bergin
By NASA Spaceflight: SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close out 2026. Flight 15 is targeting November, with the goal of catching both the booster and the Ship.
Space.com
• Dean Robbins
By Space.com: The world will miss Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering programmer who helped NASA land Apollo astronauts on the moon. But we will always have her example to inspire us.
New York Times
• Constant Méheut
By New York Times: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine pressed Sunday for more information on possible restrictions to Starshield, a U.S.-provided satellite internet service used by the Ukrainian military.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is preparing to hire contractors to maintain and support global deployments of as many as 56 satellite-jamming systems used to disrupt adversaries’ communications.
Axios
• Thomas Novelly
By Axios: The satellite is part of a constellation that supports Ukraine's military.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: A new study in Science Advances addresses the pressing questions about how long-duration exposure to microgravity affects the human genome.
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
Space.com
• Robert Lea
Space.com
• Mike Wall
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Communications Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
