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Off-Nominal

Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo
Off-Nominal
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    245 - Polar Bears and Penguins (with Jonathan Goff and Mike Loucks)

    12/06/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
    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.

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    AAS Paper Review: RAAN Agnostic 3-Burn Departure Methodology for Deep Space Missions from LEO Depots (Part 1 of 2) | Selenian Boondocks

    AAS Paper Review: Practical Methodologies For Low Delta-V Penalty, On-Time Departures To Arbitrary Interplanetary Destinations From A Medium-Inclination Low-Earth Orbit Depot | Selenian Boondocks

    An Updated Propellant Depot Taxonomy Part V: Human Spaceflight Fixed Depots (Low-Orbit) | Selenian Boondocks

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    Home - Space Exploration Engineering

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    244 - Helen from Everywhere (with Lindy Elkins-Tanton)

    05/06/2026 | 1h 6 mins.
    Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Principal Investigator of Psyche, joins Jake and Anthony to talk about Leadership on big NASA missions in her new book Mission Ready.

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    Episode 244 - Helen from Everywhere (with Lindy Elkins-Tanton) - YouTube

    Mission Ready by Lindy Elkins-Tanton | Hachette Book Group

    NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

    Psyche Mission Gallery - Images & Videos | Psyche Mission

    Psyche IRB (PDF)

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    243 - Ducktricity (with Miles O’Brien)

    29/05/2026 | 1h 4 mins.
    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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    Episode 243 - Ducktricity (with Miles O’Brien) - YouTube

    NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a "perimeter" - Ars Technica

    SpaceX's Starship V3—still a work in progress—mostly successful on first flight - Ars Technica

    Selenian Boondocks | Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen

    AAS Paper Review: RAAN Agnostic 3-Burn Departure Methodology for Deep Space Missions from LEO Depots (Part 1 of 2) | Selenian Boondocks

    AAS 18-447: RAAN-Agnostic 3-Burn Departure Methodology for Deep Space Missions from LEO Depots

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    242 - Jared Propulsion Laboratory

    22/05/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
    Jake and Anthony kick around the SpaceX IPO filing, upcoming first flight of Starship V3, and reorganization at NASA.

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    A Message From Administrator Jared Isaacman - NASA

    NASA Announces Realignment to Accelerate Mission Delivery - NASA

    NASA to Compete Contract for Jet Propulsion Laboratory Management - NASA

    Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time - Ars Technica

    Jack Kuhr on X: “Alright, I pulled 24 tidbits from SpaceX's S-1. Here they are, ranked”

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    241 - Maybe the Denver Airport (with Andrew Rush)

    15/05/2026 | 1h 2 mins.
    Jake and Anthony are joined by Andrew Rush, Co-founder and CEO of Star Catcher, to talk about building a power grid in space, their upcoming in-space demonstration, their big fundraising round announced this week, and where they go from here.

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    Episode 241 - Maybe the Denver Airport (with Andrew Rush) - YouTube

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    Star Catcher | Star Catcher raises $65 million to build the first power grid in space

    Star Catcher raises $65 million for space power grid - SpaceNews

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