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Off-Nominal

Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.

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  • #266
    Friday · 1 hr

    262 - Barely Moons

    Jake and Anthony run through the news to talk about MMX and its Phobos sample return, the return of Venus missions, and the always-talked-about-dearth-of-launch-vehicles.

  • #265
    October 16 · 59 min

    261 - I am the LEO Economy (with Eric Berger)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about the latest Starliner situation, LEO beyond Dragon, and NASA’s commercial LEO policy.

  • #264
    October 9 · 1 hr 2 min

    260 - Launching on Thursday (with Scott Edwards)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Scott Edwards, Director and Executive Producer of To the Black, a documentary chronicling Firefly’s journey from bankruptcy to almost bankruptcy again to international drama to orbit and all the moments in between.

  • #263
    October 2 · 1 hr

    259 - Overhead (with Chris Kemp)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Astra founder and CEO Chris Kemp to talk about the company’s road back from the brink, Rocket 4, and why he still sees a path for it today.

  • #262
    September 25 · 1 hr 9 min

    258 - Not a Space Guy (with Daniel Drew)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Daniel Drew of the University of Hawaiʻi to talk about SPARK, his concept for exploring Titan’s caves with aerobots powered by solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters. Seriously.

  • #261
    September 18 · 1 hr 1 min

    257 - Can You Fix Our RV? (with Nick Cialdella)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Nick Cialdella, CTO of Varda Space Industries, to talk about manufacturing pharmaceuticals in space, the reentry technology that brings them back to Earth, Varda’s hypersonic testbed, and the business case for making things in orbit.

  • #260
    September 11 · 1 hr 1 min

    256 - The Ellis Number

    Jake and Anthony talk about Blue Origin building the Mars Telecommunications Network, Stoke splashing the cash and talking up Nova Block 2, and Anthony has a weird theory about Jared Isaacman.

  • #259
    September 4 · 1 hr 3 min

    255 - Sorry, Reno (with Matt Gjertsen)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gjertsen, Founder of BUILT, to talk about his book, Minimum Viable Manager: Three Essential Skills for Leading Technical Teams That Solve Big Problems, the recovery of Starship at Christmas Island, and Starbase Louisiana.

  • #258
    August 27 · 1 hr

    254 - An Advocate of Crazy (with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and leader of ETH Zurich Space, to talk about the state of science missions at NASA.

  • #256
    August 20 · 1 hr 1 min

    253 - Dome is Your Strategy

    It’s time for actual stock tips. Jake and Anthony draft competing $100,000 space portfolios and lock them in for a year.

  • #257
    August 13 · 1 hr 3 min

    252 - Paying Now and Later (with Eric Berger and Joe Barnard)

    Anthony is joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and Joe Barnard to talk about crewed spaceflight in the 2030s, what options exist if and when Dragon stops flying, and what we should do about it.

  • #254
    July 31 · 1 hr 1 min

    250 - Tile Enthusiast

    Jake and Anthony talk about Starship Flight 13, the heat shield discourse, Dragon beyond 2030, and shockingly, Jake was the one to say “Let’s talk about the National Security Space Launch program.”

  • #252
    July 17 · 1 hr

    248 - Earth Quality (with Jason Dunn)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Outpost Co-Founder and CEO Jason Dunn to talk about their Earth return vehicles across national security, in-space manufacturing, and other industries.

  • #251
    July 10 · 1 hr 2 min

    247 - RTGs Don’t Grow on Trees

    Jake and Anthony talk about the PROMISE rover, the state of decisions in NASA’s Isaacman era, Rocket Lab buying Iridium, and they give Jeremy Hansen a clap out.

  • #250
    June 26 · 1 hr

    246 - Stock Tips

    Jake catches Anthony up on the news he missed while on vacation, and also how expensive stage adapters have become.

  • #249
    June 12 · 1 hr 3 min

    245 - Polar Bears and Penguins (with Jonathan Goff and Mike Loucks)

    Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan Goff, Director of Advanced Concepts at Gravitics, and Mike Loucks, CEO at SEE, to talk about where to put orbital depots, trajectories from there to the Moon and Mars, and to otherwise set the record straight on their papers after Anthony’s poorly-remembered-and-even-more-poorly-explained mention.

  • #247
    May 29 · 1 hr 4 min

    243 - Ducktricity (with Miles O’Brien)

    Miles O’Brien joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Starship Flight 12, the NASA Moon Base updates on LTVs and landers, and Miles’ trip to Antarctica.

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