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
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I Like Vulcan A Latte
New Horizons turned back on and Firefly Blue Ghost did not Redwire and Ispace sign contract for lunar landers ULA sponsors a coffee shopTexas senators want Space Shuttle Discovery and so do weJared Isaacman faced a tough confirmation hearing. No links available go check previous ep for links.
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Thats a Lot of Dolphins
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 April 1st https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1901414669677449256 https://x.com/firefly_space/status/1902003622201745632Chandrayaan 5 has received mission approval https://www.deccanherald.com/india/centre-has-accorded-approval-for-chandrayaan-5-mission-isro-chief-3448873new suborbital rocket alert! NordSpace announces SHARP (Supersonic and Hypersonic Applications Research Platform) https://x.com/nord_space/status/1901978538711855184Max-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/JTgxuvjY7eMax-Q News Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/maxqnews.bsky.socialMax-Q News Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/Maxq_News/membership
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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