T+225: Astrogation with Space Exploration Engineering
Mike Loucks and John Carrico of Space Exploration Engineering join me to talk about astrogation, mission planning, missions they’ve worked on, how they interact with teams of all types, and everything...
16 Elo 202247min
T+224: Northrop Grumman’s Commercial Space Station, with Rick Mastracchio (Director Of Business Development)
Rick Mastracchio, former NASA astronaut and current Director Of Business Development at Northrop Grumman Space Systems, joins me to talk about Northrop Grumman’s Commercial Space Station concept that ...
12 Elo 202246min
T+223: Viper Delayed, Masten Unravels, CLPS Moves On
NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program is in a tricky spot right now. VIPER has been delayed a year, new task orders are being awarded to new teams like the one led by Draper, and Masten is ...
25 Heinä 202218min
T+222: Rogozin Out, Seat Exchange Signed
Some thoughts on where we are now that Dmitry Rogozin has been dismissed as head of Roscosmos, and that NASA and Roscosmos have signed a seat exchange agreement for future flights to the ISS.This epis...
21 Heinä 202227min
T+221: Psyche Misses Its Launch Window, SIMPLEx Missions Struggle to Find Theirs (with Jake Robins)
Our good friend Jake Robins, host of WeMartians and my cohost on Off-Nominal, joins me to talk about Psyche missing its launch window, the state of the SIMPLEx program, its troubles with launch slots,...
1 Heinä 202238min
T+220: Artemis Architecture (with Eric Berger)
Eric Berger of Ars Technica joins me to talk about the Artemis Program’s space suits, expensive launch sites, maybe-cheaper-but-at-least-not-as-delayed launch sites, vehicles, and its manifest over th...
17 Kesä 202250min
T+219: Starship Launch Plan Clears FAA Environmental Review, with Mitigations Required
SpaceX’s plans for launching Starship to orbit from Boca Chica cleared an environmental review with the FAA, but more than 75 mitigations are required in order to receive a launch license to carry out...
14 Kesä 202221min
T+218: Starliner Flies, Dragon Gets More Flights
Boeing completed Starliner’s long-awaited Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the ISS, but about a week after landing, NASA announced its intent to buy more Dragon flights from SpaceX.This episode of Mai...
9 Kesä 202229min
