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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255 episodes
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Oct 11, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
170 - Luckily, We Did All the Math (with Casey Handmer)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Handmer, Founder of Terraform Industries, to talk about Mars Sample Return, and the general state of government projects, NASA, and so much more.
Oct 4, 2024 · 59 min
169 - Sexy Atlantis
Jake arrives sad about space, and Anthony tries to cheer him up. We talk ISS, Artemis, budgets, and government strategy and goals.
Sep 27, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
168 - Elon Munch (with Joe Barnard)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to air their grievances with the FAA.
Sep 19, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
167 - Bechtold (with Eric Berger)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX, to talk about his newest book, Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age.
Sep 12, 2024 · 59 min
166 - General Five Year Old (with Tanya Harrison and Emma Louden)
Jake is joined by Emma Louden and Tanya Harrison to talk about their new children's book Mia and the Martians and how distilling space down to a child's level is a fascinating and challenging topic.
Aug 29, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
165 - Vacuum Light Pipe (with Dr. Gerard van Belle)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Gerard van Belle, Astronomer at Lowell Observatory, to talk about the recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis, which is about to do some crazy stuff that it does every 78 years and honestly, we really need help understanding it.
Aug 23, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
164 - Middle Finger to Entropy (with Casey Dreier)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to share the Good News about Human Spaceflight.
Aug 16, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
163 - COTS of JSC (with John Conafay)
Jake and Anthony are joined by John Conafay, founder of Integrate, to talk about what they’ve been up to lately, his time at SmallSat, all the space news of late, our bizarre JSC theories, and probably a review of Salt Lake City favorites in advance of the conferences’s move next year.
Aug 9, 2024 · 58 min
162 - falcon_9.mp3 (with Logan and Alan from MSI DFAT)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Logan and Alan from MSI DFAT to talk about blasting satellites and spacecraft with sound. Seriously, that is their job.
Aug 2, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
161 - Ambassador Administrator Senator (with Christian Davenport)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Christian Davenport of The Washington Post to catch Jake up on what he missed while on vacation. Just a Falcon 9 failure, the ongoing Starliner saga, and a brand new Presidential race.
Jul 26, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
160 - Cut That Shit Out (with Lori Garver and Loren Grush)
Anthony is joined by his two favorite LGs—Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, and Loren Grush of Bloomberg—to talk about an absolutely chaotic run of space news.
Jul 18, 2024 · 1 hr
159 - The Budget Wedges are All Wedging (with Joey Roulette and Jacqueline Feldscher)
Anthony is joined by Joey Roulette of Reuters and Jacqueline Feldscher of Payload to talk about the Falcon 9 failure and its fallout, and the ongoing communications debacle that is Starliner.
Jul 12, 2024 · 59 min
158 - Meant to F
Jake and Anthony are back! We catch up mostly about spacesuits, space stations, spaceships, and probably Dragon XL.
Jun 27, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
157 - Assuming States are Rational (with Laura Delgado López)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Laura Delgado López, Visiting Fellow at the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to talk about Latin American space policy.
Jun 21, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
156 - It’s All Muscle (with Mark Peller, VP of Vulcan Development at ULA)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Peller, VP of Vulcan Development at United Launch Alliance, to talk about…well…Vulcan development!
Jun 14, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
155 - Unhinged Planetary Desire (with Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Peter Beck, Founder, President, and CEO of Rocket Lab, to talk about making rocket bikes, why he would do such a thing as make rocket bikes, what it was like to ride rocket bikes, and why he stopped making rocket bikes.
Jun 6, 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
154 - They Ran Into Us (with Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium, to talk about what they’ve been up to lately, the state of the satellite communications industry, and to tell some stories from his career.
May 31, 2024 · 1 hr
153 - Gyros on the Butt
Jake and Anthony catch up on the news, and Anthony returns from vacation with a few reviews of some recent Smithsonian Air and Space Museum changes.
May 9, 2024 · 59 min
152 - Low ARPU Sub
Jake and Anthony are joined by Caleb Henry (Director of Research) and Justin Cadman (Co-CEO) of Quilty Space, to talk about their financial analysis of Starlink.
May 3, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min
151 - CanadLeg
Jake and Anthony are joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to figure out what’s up with the Orion heat shield, SLS layoffs, commercial Mars studies, and the ISS deorbit vehicle.