Off-Nominal

Jake and Anthony are joined by Aria Alamalhodaei, reporter at TechCrunch, to talk about valves, getting footage of Astra’s explosions, Mars Sample Return, and everything else that has been going on lately, including cursed eclipses.

Jake and Anthony catch up after some travels, unfortunate events, clouds, news, and hijinks.

Along with the Earth, Sun and Moon, we are aligning for a pre-Eclipse meetup in the Niagara region of Canada. Join Jake and fellow anomalies for a beer and meet some new friends!

Jake is joined by Simon Stähler, a geophysicist from ETH Zürich, to talk about the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, including feelings on the ground for Mars Sample Return and the potential of Starship for planetary science.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Michael Sheetz, space reporter from CNBC, to talk about recent earnings calls, Rocket Lab‘s new lines of satellites, whatever Astra is up to, Starship, and…there’s way too much on our list.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Swapna Krishna to catch up on space science news, and to talk about her projects like Ad Astra, Stargazing, and more.

Jake and Anthony are joined by journalist and author Tim Fernholz to talk about some of his recent stories on the Space Force, Kam Ghaffarian, and let’s be honest, we’ll probably get distracted by Intuitive Machine’s first lunar landing attempt.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Casey Dreier, Chief of Space Policy at The Planetary Society, to talk about the latest on Mars Sample Return, JPL layoffs, and everything space policy.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Elizabeth Frank to talk about the future of the CLPS program, JPL’s Mars-focused Commercial Services Studies, and a whole bunch more, including Elizabeth’s epic travel photos.

Jake and Anthony are joined by Rae Paoletta of The Planetary Society to pour one out for Ingenuity, breakdown the epic SLIM landing, and do some eclipse planning.