T+45: 2018 Air Force Launch Vehicle Contracts, and the Dim Future of Antares
As the award date approaches for the 2018 Air Force launch vehicle development contracts, we keep hearing from Congress about how they would like to see it go. And I discuss the future of Antares and ...
20 Huhti 201736min
T+44: SpaceX and the Age of Reusability
SpaceX made history this week by launching SES-10 with a previously-flown first stage. I discuss implications of this achievement, the things we learned from Elon Musk in the post-flight press briefin...
1 Huhti 201732min
T+43: March Lightning Round
The last two weeks have been filled with a bunch of smaller stories—SpaceX’s GPS III bid win and upcoming SES-10 launch, ULA’s decision on Vulcan’s engines and Congress’ potential meddling, and the IS...
25 Maalis 201727min
T+42: Blue Origin Introduces New Glenn
This week, Blue Origin shed some more light on New Glenn—by way of an animation, launch agreements, and a talk by Jeff Bezos at Satellite 2017—and the first fully-assembled BE-4 shipped to their test ...
9 Maalis 201728min
T+41: EM-1 Follow-up, Dragon 2-Falcon Heavy to the Moon
This week is all about #hotdrama, with two surprise media briefings: one from NASA on a potential crewed EM-1, and one from SpaceX on a privately-crewed journey around the Moon—riding on a Dragon 2 an...
2 Maalis 201740min
T+40: The Potentially Infamous EM-1 Memo
Robert Lightfoot, the Acting NASA Administrator, sent a memo to the agency on the possibility of putting a crew on EM-1. I discuss the potential fallout from this idea and where the SLS/Orion program ...
18 Helmi 201726min
T+39: Opportunities for Private Companies within Government Programs
This week, NASA officially announced that NanoRacks will be adding an airlock onto the International Space Station to add capabilities and capacity to their already-up-and-running business. That annou...
9 Helmi 201718min
T+38: 2017 NASA Transition Authorization Act Speculation
Marcia Smith of SpacePolicyOnline.com saw a draft of the 2017 NASA Transition Authorization Act, and it contains some very interesting changes from the 2016 version that bounced around Congress last y...
2 Helmi 201728min
