Off-Nominal

By Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo

Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.... more

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September 19, 2025211 - The International Team (with Christian Davenport)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Christian Davenport of The Washington Post to talk about his new book, Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race.
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Episode 211 - The International Team (with Christian Davenport) - YouTube
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race: Davenport, Christian: 9780593594117: Amazon.com: Books
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos: Davenport, Christian: Amazon.com: Books
Christian Davenport on X: “So some personal news, as they say. I’m joining the amazing team @CBSNews as a contributor. So grateful they had me on to discuss Rocket Dreams.”
Elon Musk Interview: Why the Starship Is Built of Stainless Steel
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September 12, 2025210 - Hufflepuff Ships (with Greg Gillinger)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Greg Gillinger of Integrity ISR to talk about what Russia and China are up to lately with their space assets.
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Episode 210 - Hufflepuff Ships (with Greg Gillinger) - YouTube
Integrity ISR: Forged by Service. Proven in Action.
Integrity Flash Newsletter | ISR University
Home - ISR University
The Space Review: Developing and testing China’s Guowang constellation
China’s Shijian-21 towed dead satellite to a high graveyard orbit - SpaceNews
Chinese spacecraft prepare for orbital refueling test as US surveillance sats lurk nearby - SpaceNews
COMSPOC_OPS on X: “Recent observations from @OurSkyAI and @ObservableSpace, supported by COMSPOC’s optical network, reveal several significant activities in GEO between 6–8 June 2025. SHIJIAN-25 (SJ-25) performed four maneuvers between 6 June 01:50 UTC and 7 June 16:51 UTC, using a total delta-v”
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September 05, 2025209 - Mars Life Pushers (with Chris Temby and Jan Špaček)
Chris Temby and Jan Špaček join Jake and Anthony to talk about the Agnostic Life Finding Association and the search for life on Mars.
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Episode 209 - Mars Life Pushers (with Chris Temby and Jan Špaček) - YouTube
ALFA Mars
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ALFA Mars - YouTube
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August 29, 2025208 - 1-0 Freedom
Jake and Anthony talk about Starship Flight 10, what the future holds for the Starship program, and the Chinese lunar program.
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Episode 208 - 1-0 Freedom - YouTube
SpaceX - Starship's Tenth Flight Test
After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon - Ars Technica
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August 22, 2025207 - Replacement Money (with Randy Riddle, LeonRunningMan!)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Randy Riddle, retired small rocket chief engineer and long time anomaly (it’s LeonRunningMan, himself!), to talk about his career in the Air Force, how appropriated money actually works from the government side, and to tell a ton of stories.
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Episode 207 - Replacement Money (with Randy Riddle, LeonRunningMan!) - YouTube
National Air and Space Intel Center
Air Force Issues RFP For OSP-3 Launch Services - Defense Daily
USSF awards OSP-4 contract to emerging Small Launch providers > Los Angeles Air Force Base > Article Display
Space and Missile Systems Center awards $4.9 million Small Rocket Program-Orbital contract for Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer (ASLON)-45 mission > Los Angeles Air Force Base > Article Display
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August 14, 2025206 - Coalition for Deep State Exploration
Jake and Anthony kick around the news, from Vulcan and Ariane 6 launches on the same day, Blue Origin’s MTO, and some licensing talk, because that’s super fun.
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Episode 206 - Coalition for Deep State Exploration - YouTube
After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket - Ars Technica
ESA - MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch on Ariane 6
Op-ed: NASA’s New CLD Strategy Will Lose Mars, LEO to China - Payload
No Changes Allowed | LinkedIn
The Mission: Blue Origin’s Mars Telecommunications Orbiter | Blue Origin
Trump Issues Executive Order on Commercial Space – SpacePolicyOnline.com
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August 08, 2025205 - Knives Out for Kansas
Jake and Anthony decide which spaceship(s) they would like to steal from a museum.
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Episode 205 - Knives Out for Kansas - YouTube
NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations - Ars Technica
Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket - Ars Technica
Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit? - Ars Technica
Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one - Ars Technica
Space Shuttle Independence - Wikipedia
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 - Wikipedia
LK (spacecraft) - Wikipedia
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August 01, 2025204 - It’s Not Delivery, It’s Deorbit (with Joe Barnard)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Joe Barnard to catch up and finally discuss High Steaks!
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Episode 204 - It’s Not Delivery, It’s Deorbit (with Joe Barnard) - YouTube
Can Supersonic Heating Cook Steak? - YouTube
High Steaks Flight 1 - Onboard Footage 50% Speed with Data Overlay - YouTube
Smallest 4K 120fps Camera Possible - YouTube
Using Condoms to Make a Rocket Nosecone - YouTube
Building a Supersonic Rocket Guidance System - YouTube
The #1 Reason Rocket Parachutes Fail - YouTube
Half Cat Rocketry
Australia’s first orbital-class rocket didn’t make it far off the launch pad - Ars Technica
Gilmour Space on X: “Liftoff completed, launch tower cleared, stage 1 tested. Awesome result for a first test launch.”
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July 18, 2025203 - 20 Tree and Me
Jake and Anthony return from their travels with stories, and a ton of news to catch each other up on. And we’ll find out if Jake was the person who bought NWA 16799.
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Episode 203 - 20 Tree and Me - YouTube
The largest Mars meteorite on Earth has sold for $4.3 million | Space
Congress passes budget reconciliation bill with $10 billion for NASA - SpaceNews
Senate Appropriators Poised to Reject Proposed NASA Budget Cuts, But… – SpacePolicyOnline.com
House Appropriators Also Reject Trump-Proposed NASA Cuts, Fund National Space Council – SpacePolicyOnline.com
Congress moves to reject bulk of White House’s proposed NASA cuts - Ars Technica
Here’s why Trump appointed the secretary of transportation to lead NASA - Ars Technica
NASA Research Shows Path Toward Protocells on Titan - NASA Science
Building the future of SpaceNews - SpaceNews
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June 27, 2025202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil)
Anthony is joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight to talk about the recent mayhem at Starbase, and to kick around European space policy topics in the run up to the ESA Ministerial later this year.
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Episode 202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube
Following the Loss of Ship 36, SpaceX now Focuses on Rebuilding Masseys - NASASpaceFlight.com
Jack Beyer on X: “Close up slow motion footage of the unexpected event(s) during Northrop Grumman’s BOLE DM-1 stb test today.”
Northrop Grumman tests SLS Block 2 BOLE booster in Utah; nozzle issue seen - NASASpaceFlight.com
ESA studying impacts of proposed NASA budget cuts - SpaceNews
ESA moving ahead with ‘resilience from space’ satellite imaging program - SpaceNews
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