Jake and Anthony talk about recent financial news in the world of spaceflight and add some predictions to the 2023 list.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 122 - Space.com Bubble - YouTube
• Off-Nominal Campaign for Relay FM/St. Jude
• Relay FM for St. Jude - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Virgin Galactic forecasts limited revenues from initial commercial flights - SpaceNews
• Virgin Galactic launches first tourist flight to space, Galactic 02
• Virgin Galactic (SPCE) Q2 2023 earnings report
• Astra lays off, reassigns employees as it refocuses on satellite propulsion - SpaceNews
• Chris Kemp unplugged—Astra’s CEO dishes on the space company’s struggles | Ars Technica
• Peter Beck on X: “A Rocket Lab production line.”
• Momentus cuts workforce while evaluating strategic options - SpaceNews

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Mark Panning from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and PI of the Farside Seismic Suite to talk about the Chandrayaan-3 and Luna-25 Moon landings and what we can look forward too from CLPS coming soon.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Luna-25 crashes into moon after orbit maneuver - SpaceNews
• Chandrayaan-3: India becomes fourth country to land on the moon - SpaceNews
• ISRO on X: “Here is how the Lander Imager Camera captured the moon's image just prior to touchdown.”
• ISRO on X: “Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The image captured by the Landing Imager Camera after the landing. It shows a portion of Chandrayaan-3's landing site. Seen also is a leg and its accompanying shadow. Chandrayaan-3 chose a relatively flat region on the lunar surface”
• NASA Selects New Science Investigations for Future Moon Deliveries

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Karan Kunjur, Co-Founder of K2 Space, to talk about what they’re building, and what it means to build for a post-Starship future.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 120 - Big Dumb Satellites (with Karan Kunjur) - YouTube
• Space-based solar power is not a thing – Casey Handmer's blog
• New Solar Arrays to Power NASA’s International Space Station Research | NASA
• Gravitics

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• K2 Space | Developing large satellites for a post-Starship future

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Jake and Anthony are joined by space artist and illustrator Paul Fjeld to talk about his career and to hear some stories from interesting projects and programs he’s worked on.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 119 - Don’t Train for the Nominal Shit (with Paul Fjeld) - YouTube
• List of Experiences -Paul Fjeld
• The Space Review: Saving Skylab the top secret way

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Anthony is joined by Jonathan Vaughters, Founder and CEO of EF Education-EasyPost, and Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, to talk about space and cycling, who knows in what amounts. Sorry, Jake.

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• Episode 118 - Experienced Drunk Idiots (with Jonathan Vaughters and Eric Berger) - YouTube
• Watch Tour de France: Unchained | Netflix Official Site
• Enter the Slipstream (2023) - IMDb
• Kerbal Space Program – Create and Manage Your Own Space Program
• Manayunk Wall: The climb every American bike racer knew - Velo
• The legend of the Manayunk Wall

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• Home | EF Education-EasyPost
• One-Way Ticket: Nine Lives on Two Wheels: Vaughters, Jonathan: Amazon.com: Books
• Opinion | How to Get Doping Out of Sports - The New York Times

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• Eric Berger | Ars Technica

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Phil Metzger to talk about his research into launch and landing pad debris.

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• Episode 117 - ⅃ L (with Dr. Phil Metzger) - YouTube
• NASA’s Recommendations to Space-Faring Entities: How to Protect and Preserve the Historic and Scientific Value of U.S. Government Lunar Artifacts (PDF, 3.3 MB)
• NASA drafts guidelines to preserve Apollo moon landing sites | collectSPACE
• Dr. Phil Metzger on Twitter: “Thanks so much to the people who sent samples and pictures/videos of the particulate falling 5-6 miles from the Starship launch pad. We have analyzed the particle sizes and shapes and got an unexpected result.”
• Dr. Phil Metzger on Twitter: “Partial results on the analysis of the ejecta from the SpaceX Starship launch. The visible and infrared spectra of the fine particles that rained down on Port Isobel do not match the concrete or the Fondag that was picked up on the beach.”
• Dr. Phil Metzger on Twitter: “I guess I need to do simulations to see how sand can fly 5 miles from a Starship launch. I did the analysis for NASA for Mars landings, and the size of particle that went farthest in that super-thin Martian air was pea gravel (~3 mm diameter) and it only goes 725 meters.”
• Project Morpheus : Home
• NASA Morpheus Lander Crash and Explosions - YouTube

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• Philip Metzger – Space Mining, Space Settlement, and Space Science!

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Jake is back, so Anthony will help get him caught up on the news, including the Mars Sample Return Hot Drama.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 116 - Hot NSSL Summer - YouTube
• NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal | Ars Technica
• NASA's FY 2024 Budget | The Planetary Society
• The U.S. Senate threatens to cancel Mars… | The Planetary Society
• Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032 (2022) (PDF, 27.5 MB)
• National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 DRAFT Request for Proposals (RFPs) #2
• Space Force to select three providers of national security launch services - SpaceNews
• Space Force changed launch procurement plan due to concerns about capacity - SpaceNews

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Anthony is joined by Loren Grush (Bloomberg) and Rachael Zisk (Payload), to talk about Loren’s recent trip to see Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight, to catch up on some news, and to do a mid-year check in on our 2023 predictions.

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• Episode 115 - I’m Getting a Twinkie Vibe (with Loren Grush and Rachael Zisk) - YouTube
• Loren Grush on Twitter: “It’s all been leading to this–Virgin Galactic's first commercial flight is set for this morning, with a research mission for the Italian Air Force. I'm in New Mexico at Spaceport America to finally see a flight”
• Loren Grush on Twitter: Video of Unity returning
• Titanic Sub Implosion Highlights Space Risks of Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin Too - Bloomberg
• Astra Looks to Raise $65M and Avoid Nasdaq Delisting through Stock Split - Payload
• Astra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business | TechCrunch
• The Artemis Astrovan Arrives - Payload

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• Loren Grush - Bloomberg

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• Rachael Zisk, Author at Payload
• Parallax

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Jake and Anthony are joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceFlight.com (and a long-time beloved member of the Off-Nominal Discord) to talk about how he got his start via an epic spreadsheet, and to tell some stories from his trip to Boca Chica for Starship.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 114 - Starship Blue (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube
• Starship debut leading the rocket industry toward full reusability - NASASpaceFlight.com
• SpaceX focuses on launch site readiness ahead of Starship Flight 2 - NASASpaceFlight.com
• Blue Update: New Glenn testing hardware at the cape as New Shepard closes in on return to flight - NASASpaceFlight.com
• China outlines ambitious plans for Moon landing; ZhuQue-2 prepares to launch again - NASASpaceFlight.com
• How Chang Zheng 9 arrived at the "Starship-like" design - NASASpaceFlight.com

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Jake and Anthony check in on the ongoing planetary missions around the solar system.

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• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 113 - AutoNav Road Rage - YouTube
• ESA - BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby: the movie
• ESA - A trio of images highlight BepiColombo’s third Mercury flyby
• Where is Curiosity? | Mission – NASA Mars Exploration
• NASA’s Curiosity Captures Martian Morning, Afternoon in New ‘Postcard’
• AreoBrowser
• NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade
• NASA’s Perseverance Collects First Mars Sample of New Science Campaign
• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight
• Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
• Debate rages about future of New Horizons - SpaceNews
• NASA Psyche mission back on track for October launch - SpaceNews

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