T+73: Commercial Crew Contingency Plans, and the End of ISS
NASA recently began talking about some contingency planning for potential Commercial Crew delays, and the end-of-ISS discussion is heating up. This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by ...
23 Feb 201822min
T+72: SpaceX’s Motivation for Falcon Heavy
SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy last week and shook up the space launch world. I spend some time thinking through SpaceX’s motivations for building Falcon Heavy, and what its effects might be on the worl...
13 Feb 201834min
T+71: Commercial Crew, Congress, and the GAO
The Commercial Crew program—NASA, SpaceX, Boeing, and more—went in front of Congress to discuss the current status of the crew launch systems in development. Concurrently, the GAO released a report wa...
30 Jan 201823min
T+70: Polar Launches from Cape Canaveral
The US Air Force has developed a viable corridor for launching to polar and other high-inclination orbits from Cape Canaveral. I spend some time thinking through who may be interested in using that co...
17 Jan 201823min
T+69: Robin Seemangal
Robin Seemangal joins me for a free-flowing discussion on the stories we found most important in 2017 and what we’re looking forward to in 2018, including SpaceX’s huge year, Blue Origin’s under-the-r...
27 Dec 20171h 4min
T+68: Mike Lewis, CTO of NanoRacks
Mike Lewis, CTO of NanoRacks joins me to talk about what they’re working on today, as well as their big plans for the future, including their upcoming airlock and the Ixion project—their ongoing work ...
20 Dec 201748min
T+67: Special Preview of MECO Headlines, December 1–8, 2017
A special preview of the MECO Headlines shows: Elon Musk kinda-sorta-maybe announces the Falcon Heavy demo payload, Russia and China carry out successful military launches, NASA announces some very in...
8 Dec 201721min
T+66: A Visit to NanoRacks, and Virgin Orbit Books a Department of Defense Launch
I was in Houston last week and I visited NanoRacks for a bit. And Virgin Orbit piqued the interest of the Department of Defense, which has some interesting implications. This episode of Main Engine Cu...
27 Nov 201726min
