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 contract to revamp the range systems by the space force The UK Space Agency has been shut down and absorbed by the DSITESA announced a mission to asteroid Apophis SpinLaunch raised $30 million to develop their satellite communication networkFirefly announced that they would be adding a new launch site in japan
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Something Went Boom
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 out!Also, Beagle goes on a whole rant about funky astrophysicist naming schemes. They're... weird.
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We Take Sole Credit
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 bit we talk about the Hakuto R mission and StarShip's ninth test flight. Our Links:Max-Q News website: https://max-q-news.space/%E2%81%A0Max-Q News X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/MaxQ_production%E2%81%A0Max-Q News Discord: https://discord.gg/JTgxuvjY7e
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A Very Interesting Episode
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 minutes. RocketLab had their quarterly review and it went quite well IM-2 investigation is complete and it shows exactly what we expectedDragonfly defies expectations and passes its CDRThe first satellite internet video call has been madeStratolaunch completes the second flight of the Talon-A2Varda completes their third missionStarBase is now its own town despite the public backlash of six total peopleStarShip granted 20 launches per year out of starbase
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.
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