Max-Q: The Podcast

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...