T+244: Dawn Aerospace’s Rocket-Powered Mk-II Aurora Takes Flight (with Stefan Powell, CEO)
Stefan Powell, CEO of Dawn Aerospace, joins me to talk about their big news announced today: last week, they completed three rocket-powered flights of their Mk-II Aurora spaceplane in 3 consecutive da...
5 Apr 202352min
T+243: Live Show Announcement! Plus Virgin Orbit Nears the End, While Relativity Flies Terran 1
I share some big news about MECO and Off-Nominal live at Space Symposium 2023, and then dive into some recent launch stories: Relativity’s first flight of Terran 1, and Virgin Orbit nearing its end.Th...
31 Mars 202339min
T+242: NASA’s FY2024 Budget Request (with Casey Dreier)
Casey Dreier of The Planetary Society joins me to talk about the NASA FY2024 budget request and what it means for Artemis, the ISS, and planetary science.Correction: At some point in the show, we said...
16 Mars 202349min
T+241: ULA on the Market
Eric Berger has three sources saying United Launch Alliance is being shopped around the market right now, so I kick around some thoughts on who may buy ULA, if an offer comes to fruition.This episode ...
6 Mars 202320min
T+240: NSSL Phase 3, and a New Glenn Check In
The Space Force rolled out the draft RFP for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch program, and it looks pretty good! Elsewhere, NASA selected New Glenn to launch ESCAPADE in 2024, so I check ...
28 Feb 202328min
T+239: Space Policy with Lori Garver
Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, joins me to talk about a whole host of space policy topics, including Artemis and lunar politics, the legacies of Commercial Cargo and Crew, the status o...
13 Feb 202337min
T+238: Rocket Lab Flies from Wallops Island (with Caleb Henry)
Caleb Henry of Quilty Analytics and I took a trip down to Wallops Island to watch Rocket Lab’s first Electron launch from the US. Listen to our conversation on the drive down to Virginia, a bit of me ...
25 Jan 202350min
T+237: Virgin Orbit and ABL Suffer Failures
Virgin Orbit’s first launch from the UK ended in failure, putting them in an even more precarious financial position. And on the other side of the North Pole, ABL’s first launch attempt ended in failu...
17 Jan 202319min
