# SpaceNexus Daily, Monday, October 12, 2026: ESA chief outlines €10 billion crewed flight proposal, SatNews says > SatNews reported that ESA's Josef Aschbacher outlined a 10-year, €10 billion proposal for European crewed spaceflight; two Falcon 9 launches are scheduled for October 13. - Canonical page: https://spacenexus.us/briefing/2026-10-12 - This Markdown version: https://spacenexus.us/briefing/2026-10-12.md - Data as of: published 2026-10-12 19:35 UTC; records from 2026-10-11 06:00 UTC to 2026-10-12 06:00 UTC - How the numbers are made: https://spacenexus.us/methodology#ai-content ## About this edition - AI-generated briefing, AI voice. This briefing is AI-generated: an AI model wrote the script from SpaceNexus records and the sources listed, two independent AI passes checked every claim against those records and the web, and an AI voice reads it. No sponsor, advertiser or partner has any part in it. - How it was checked: All 27 claims in the script were checked one by one against the SpaceNexus records listed below, by two independent AI fact-checkers that did not write it, one of them also searching the web; every number, date and time was matched to the records by code. It publishes only if every claim passes. ## Transcript This is SpaceNexus Daily, for Monday, October 12, 2026. ### Space stocks and money In the trading session of Friday, October 9, the SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index of space stocks fell 1 percent, with 12 companies up and 21 down. The largest gain was Viasat, up 6.8 percent, and the largest decline was NorthStar Earth & Space, down 20.4 percent. Sources: [SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)](https://spacenexus.us/markets-daily); [SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/viasat); [SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close)](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/northstar-earth-space) ### ESA crewed spaceflight proposal SatNews reported that on October 5, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher outlined a 10-year, €10 billion ($10.9 billion) proposal to establish an independent European crewed spaceflight capability. Sources: [SatNews](https://satnews.com/2026/10/11/esa-director-general-outlines-e10-billion-10-year-plan-for-sovereign-european-crewed-spaceflight/) ### Blue Origin rebuilds LC-36 NASASpaceFlight reported that Blue Origin is advancing the LC-36 rebuild, with a year-end return to flight for New Glenn as the goal. According to NASASpaceFlight, this comes four months after Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad. Sources: [NASASpaceFlight](https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/blue-origin-lc-36-rebuild-new-glenn/) ### Amazon Leo and Prime Amazon disclosed plans on October 11 to bundle Amazon Leo satellite broadband with Prime subscriptions and its wider consumer ecosystem. SatNews also covered the story. Sources: [SpaceNexus](https://spacenexus.us/ai-insights/amazon-leo-moves-to-bundle-broadband-with-prime-a-distribution-play-aimed-square) ### Webb and Hubble images NASASpaceFlight reported on October 11 that teams using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have observed stellar nurseries, galaxies and gravitational lensing in new images. Sources: [NASASpaceFlight](https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/jwst-hubble-images-1026/) ### Launches ahead Two Falcon 9 launches are scheduled for October 13. Starlink Group 15-25 is scheduled from Vandenberg no earlier than 00:11:47 UTC, and Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35 from Cape Canaveral no earlier than 10:33:44 UTC. Launch Library 2 lists both as go for launch. Sources: [Launch Library 2](https://spacenexus.us/launch/cmu8vyryz2k9z13fecvtepdqv); [Launch Library 2](https://spacenexus.us/launch/cml5wsu3b006cdx9fmvrjbr50) ### Space jobs board The SpaceNexus jobs board lists 9,955 job postings, about 8,800 distinct roles, as of October 12. Of the postings, 747 went up in the last 7 days. Sources: [SpaceNexus jobs board](https://spacenexus.us/jobs) Full details and sources are at spacenexus.us. ## Sources - [SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close))](https://spacenexus.us/markets-daily) - [Viasat (VSAT) (SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close))](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/viasat) - [NorthStar Earth & Space (NSTR) (SpaceNexus Pure-Play Index (Yahoo Finance daily close))](https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/northstar-earth-space) - [ESA Director General Outlines €10 Billion 10-Year Plan for Sovereign European Crewed Spaceflight (SatNews)](https://satnews.com/2026/10/11/esa-director-general-outlines-e10-billion-10-year-plan-for-sovereign-european-crewed-spaceflight/) - [Blue Origin Advances LC-36 Rebuild for Year-End New Glenn Return to Flight (NASASpaceFlight)](https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/blue-origin-lc-36-rebuild-new-glenn/) - [Amazon Leo Moves to Bundle Broadband With Prime: A Distribution Play Aimed Squarely at Starlink's Consumer Base (SpaceNexus)](https://spacenexus.us/ai-insights/amazon-leo-moves-to-bundle-broadband-with-prime-a-distribution-play-aimed-square) - [Webb and Hubble observe stellar nurseries, galaxies, and gravitational lensing in new images (NASASpaceFlight)](https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/jwst-hubble-images-1026/) - [Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25 (Launch Library 2)](https://spacenexus.us/launch/cmu8vyryz2k9z13fecvtepdqv) - [Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35 (Launch Library 2)](https://spacenexus.us/launch/cml5wsu3b006cdx9fmvrjbr50) - [SpaceNexus jobs board (SpaceNexus jobs board)](https://spacenexus.us/jobs) ## Licence and credits - Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) for the transcript and the SpaceNexus records. 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