Off-Nominal
Off-Nominal
Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo
Two friends, two beers, and a casual conversation about space. Landing monthly in your podcast feed.
259 - Overhead (with Chris Kemp)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Astra founder and CEO Chris Kemp to talk about the company’s road back from the brink, Rocket 4, and why he still sees a path for it today.
Oct 2
1 hr
258 - Not a Space Guy (with Daniel Drew)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Daniel Drew of the University of Hawaiʻi to talk about SPARK, his concept for exploring Titan’s caves with aerobots powered by solid-state atmospheric ion thrusters. Seriously.
Sep 25
1 hr 9 min
257 - Can You Fix Our RV? (with Nick Cialdella)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Nick Cialdella, CTO of Varda Space Industries, to talk about manufacturing pharmaceuticals in space, the reentry technology that brings them back to Earth, Varda’s hypersonic testbed, and the business case for making things in orbit.
Sep 18
1 hr 1 min
256 - The Ellis Number
Jake and Anthony talk about Blue Origin building the Mars Telecommunications Network, Stoke splashing the cash and talking up Nova Block 2, and Anthony has a weird theory about Jared Isaacman.
Sep 11
1 hr 1 min
255 - Sorry, Reno (with Matt Gjertsen)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Matt Gjertsen, Founder of BUILT, to talk about his book, Minimum Viable Manager: Three Essential Skills for Leading Technical Teams That Solve Big Problems, the recovery of Starship at Christmas Island, and Starbase Louisiana.
Sep 4
1 hr 3 min
254 - An Advocate of Crazy (with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, Former Associate Administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and leader of ETH Zurich Space, to talk about the state of science missions at NASA.
Aug 27
1 hr
253 - Dome is Your Strategy
It’s time for actual stock tips. Jake and Anthony draft competing $100,000 space portfolios and lock them in for a year.
Aug 20
1 hr 1 min
252 - Paying Now and Later (with Eric Berger and Joe Barnard)
Anthony is joined by Eric Berger, Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and Joe Barnard to talk about crewed spaceflight in the 2030s, what options exist if and when Dragon stops flying, and what we should do about it.
Aug 13
1 hr 3 min
251 - Yada Yada Yada (with Dan Rasky, Charles Miller, and Charlie Camarda)
Jake and Anthony are joined by Dan Rasky, Charles Miller, and Charlie Camarda—the sources of the heat shield discourse!—to talk about Starship Flight 13 and thermal protection systems overall.
Aug 6
59 min
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