Episodes

  • A Very Interesting Episode
    May 19 2025

    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 expected

    Dragonfly defies expectations and passes its CDR

    The first satellite internet video call has been made

    Stratolaunch completes the second flight of the Talon-A2

    Varda completes their third mission

    StarBase is now its own town despite the public backlash of six total people

    StarShip granted 20 launches per year out of starbase

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    21 mins
  • I Like Vulcan A Latte
    Apr 14 2025

    New Horizons turned back on and Firefly Blue Ghost did not

    Redwire and Ispace sign contract for lunar landers

    ULA sponsors a coffee shop

    Texas senators want Space Shuttle Discovery and so do we

    Jared Isaacman faced a tough confirmation hearing.


    No links available go check previous ep for links.


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    33 mins
  • Thats a Lot of Dolphins
    Mar 25 2025

    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/1902003622201745632

    Chandrayaan 5 has received mission approval https://www.deccanherald.com/india/centre-has-accorded-approval-for-chandrayaan-5-mission-isro-chief-3448873

    new suborbital rocket alert! NordSpace announces SHARP (Supersonic and Hypersonic Applications Research Platform) https://x.com/nord_space/status/1901978538711855184


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    44 mins
  • This Better Not Land Sideways... Again
    Mar 4 2025

    In which Iain & Beagle discuss

    • Moon landers! (Late congrats to Firefly, by the way. They nailed their landing Sunday morning!)
    • Management changes at NASA
    • Another Falcon 9 second stage mishap
    • Tons from Rocket Lab's Q4 report
    • and more!


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    47 mins
  • Oops, It's A Tesla!
    Feb 11 2025

    Why is a space podcast entitled "Oops, It's A Tesla"? Guess you'll just have to watch to find out!

    Plus, we've got:

    - Lunar Lander recaps

    - Boeing's Organizational Failures

    - New NASA Admins (eventually)

    - and more!


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    43 mins
  • This is Good, This is Bad, But This is Good!
    Jan 26 2025

    Welcome to season 3 of Max-Q News! This week we talk about Blue origins inaugural flight of New Glenn, Starships failed launch, and two lunar landers launching on the same rocket? that cant be right! listen to find out!

    Thank you all for your support over the past 3 years, none of this could be possible without you, our listeners.


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    50 mins
  • When In Doubt, More Boosters!
    Dec 18 2024

    This week Iain and Ethan have a wide ranging discussion about the new NASA nominee Jared Isaacman and what he will bring. We discuss about wether or not company towns are a good idea (hint: they arent). Blue Origin gets ready to fly New Glenn, the first aircraft incident report on Mars is finished, and Fleet Space company was awarded raised 100 million dollars to build their creepy robot!

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    36 mins
  • PLD Space - Set Up for Success?
    Nov 11 2024

    We spend a ton of time this episode looking into PLD Space's plans for their Miura rocket family, along with plenty of other news from this and last week!

    • Boeing: Selling Off Space?
    • Gilmour: Going, Going, Finally!
    • Blue Origin: Busted (by Water!)
    • NEOWISE returns to Earth

    and a few more things, just for good measure!

    All this, on this week's Max-Q.

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    47 mins