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Our humble little weekly podcast, documenting all the things about space we find cool! Co-hosted by Iain and Beagle, two writers for Max-Q News, we take an in-depth look at current events and emerging companies.
Unknown Host hosts Max-Q: The Podcast, a science show with 57 episodes published.
Artemis II has taken flight and there are now 4 people of their way around the moon!! On this episode Iain and Ethan break down the near flawless launch of SLS and highlight some funny and highly relatable issues the cre
This week Iain and Ethan discuss everything around New Glenns second flight including a genius way of keeping the booster stable of the droneship. We also have a few updates to Firefly's mishap from September, the Baguet
This week Iain and Ethan discuss all things IAC which, shockingly, isnt much. They also talk about firefly's mishap during a test, a new reusable vehicle Avio is designing, and they discuss everyones favorite company Van
This week Iain and Ethan discuss all the happenings at NASA, and boy was there a lot to talk about! First we congratulated the new class of astronaut candidates, then we discuss the Artemis two timeline. Blue Origin also
Show Notes: https://www.spacecom.mil/Newsroom/News/Article-Display/Article/4308024/press-release-us-and-uk-demonstrate-partnership-in-first-ever-on-orbit-operation/ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/09/rocket-lab-eyes
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/firefly-granted-faa-clearance-resume-alpha-rocket-launches-2025-08-26/ https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-megan-mcarthur-retires/ https://rocketlabcorp.com
In this weeks show Iain and Ethan discuss all the various new contracts and missions that got announced this past week, and boy, there are some very interesting things to note here!! Amentum secures a 4 billion dollar co
In homage to one of our past episodes, entitled "Nothing Went Boom", we talked about a very important boom this week. For a while. Actually, we talked about a couple of booms. What booms are those? Well, tune in and find
This week Ethan and Iain discuss the politics surrounding NASA and the pulled nomination of Jared Isaacman. We also discuss the fallout between Musk and Trump and what that means for SpaceX contracts. After the political
In this interesting episode Iain is on his own and he is less than enthused, however the news is very exciting so that helped. Over the past month a lot has happened and we cover it all, which shockingly took only 20 min
New Horizons turned back on and Firefly Blue Ghost did not Redwire and Ispace sign contract for lunar landers ULA sponsors a coffee shop Texas senators want Space Shuttle Discovery and so do we Jared Isaacman faced a tou
This week Butch and Suni come home after a 9 month stint on the ISS, ISRO gets approval for another lunar lander, and SpaceX breaks a turnaround record Crew-9 return Blue Ghost goes offline wish potential for revival on
In which Iain & Beagle discuss Moon landers! (Late congrats to Firefly, by the way. They nailed their landing Sunday morning!) Management changes at NASA Another Falcon 9 second stage mishap Tons from Rocket Lab's Q4 rep
Why is a space podcast entitled "Oops, It's A Tesla"? Guess you'll just have to watch to find out! Plus, we've got: - Lunar Lander recaps - Boeing's Organizational Failures - New NASA Admins (eventually) - and more! Foll
Welcome to season 3 of Max-Q News! This week we talk about Blue origins inaugural flight of New Glenn, Starships failed launch, and two lunar landers launching on the same rocket? that cant be right! listen to find out!
This week Iain and Ethan have a wide ranging discussion about the new NASA nominee Jared Isaacman and what he will bring. We discuss about wether or not company towns are a good idea (hint: they arent). Blue Origin gets
We spend a ton of time this episode looking into PLD Space's plans for their Miura rocket family, along with plenty of other news from this and last week! Boeing: Selling Off Space? Gilmour: Going, Going, Finally! Blue O
This week Starship launched and what a catch that was. We have several thoughts we didn't even have time for a cold open! Europa Clipper also launched this past week and Iain has some controversial thoughts on it. Then E
Like the name suggests, we've got a double whammy in terms of anomalies this week -- one with a Falcon 9 (yes, again) and one with a Vulcan SRB... come give a listen to our analysis of what exactly happened and why only
This week, on the return of Max-Q (sorry 'bout that.): We chat about SLC-40 finally hosting crew Crew-9 (and a half), plus the future possibilities for the cut crew Deep Blue Space's Nebula-1 Vertical Testing Vehicle...
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