T+189: Stephen Forbes, DARPA Blackjack Program Manager
Stephen Forbes, the Program Manager for DARPA’s Blackjack project, joins me to talk about DARPA and its interaction with the rest of the Department of Defense, how they approach space initiatives, whe...
17 Touko 202138min
T+188: Starship SN15, and the HLS Protests
SpaceX successfully flew and landed Starship SN15 last week, amid protests of their NASA HLS award by Blue Origin and Dynetics.This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 40 executive pro...
11 Touko 202131min
T+187: Eric Berger on Artemis, Starship, Amazon’s Atlas V Rides, and the State of Blue Origin
Eric Berger of Ars Technica returns to the show to talk about NASA selecting SpaceX’s Starship for its Artemis landings, Bill Nelson’s nomination hearing, Amazon buying 9 Atlas V launches for Kuiper, ...
23 Huhti 202143min
T+186: NASA Selects Starship as Artemis Lander
NASA selected SpaceX’s Starship as its ride for crew to the lunar surface as part of the Artemis program. As the Source Selection Statement outlines, Starship was selected as the sole winner because o...
20 Huhti 202135min
T+185: Bill Nelson Nominated as NASA Administrator
President Biden nominated Bill Nelson to be the new NASA Administrator, so I check in on some of my past thoughts on NASA Administrators and Jim Bridenstine, talk about Bill Nelson’s history in space ...
26 Maalis 202124min
T+184: Jake Robins on the 2021 Mars Fleet and Future Exploration
Our good friend Jake Robins, host of WeMartians and my cohost on Off-Nominal, joins me to talk about the arrival and early operations of the 2021 Mars fleet—Hope, Tianwen-1, and Perseverance. Then we ...
16 Maalis 202141min
T+183: Peter Beck on Neutron, Going Public, and Eating Hats
Peter Beck, Founder, CEO, and CTO of Rocket Lab, joins me to talk about going public, their new, bigger launch vehicle, Neutron, updates to their Electron and Photon offerings, eating hats, and avoidi...
5 Maalis 202143min
T+182: Rocket Lab Neutron, Relativity Terran R
Relativity sorta-announced a bigger launch vehicle, Terran R. A few days later, Rocket Lab really announced a bigger launch vehicle, Neutron. I hate one announcement, and love the other.This episode o...
2 Maalis 202125min
