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Max-Q: The Podcast
by Max-Q Podcast Productions
Our humble little weekly podcast, documenting all the things about space we find cool! Co-hosted by Iain and Beagle, two writers for Max-Q News, we take an in-depth look at current events and emerging companies.
Episodes
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Artemis II Electric Boogaloo
Artemis II has taken flight and there are now 4 people of their way around the moon!! On this episode Iain and Ethan break down the near flawless launch of SLS and highlight some funny and highly relatable issues the crew has faced in space. They also discuss some financial stuff regarding…
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New Glenn Did It!
This week Iain and Ethan discuss everything around New Glenns second flight including a genius way of keeping the booster stable of the droneship. We also have a few updates to Firefly's mishap from September, the Baguette one is going orbital, and SES gave Relativity a contract. We wrap the week...
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Firefly Fireball
This week Iain and Ethan discuss all things IAC which, shockingly, isnt much. They also talk about firefly's mishap during a test, a new reusable vehicle Avio is designing, and they discuss everyones favorite company Vantor!...
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A Whole Comedy of Errors
This week Iain and Ethan discuss all the happenings at NASA, and boy was there a lot to talk about! First we congratulated the new class of astronaut candidates, then we discuss the Artemis two timeline. Blue Origin also got the VIPER contract and SpaceX could be the biggest delay in the Artemis...
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An Episode That's Not Late
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Fly My Starship Be Free
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/firefly-granted-faa-clearance-resume-alpha-rocket-launches-2025-08-26/ https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-astronaut-megan-mcarthur-retires/...
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We're Back!!!
In this weeks show Iain and Ethan discuss all the various new contracts and missions that got announced this past week, and boy, there are some very interesting things to note here!! Amentum secures a 4 billion dollar contract to revamp the range systems by the space force The UK Space Agency has...
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Something Went Boom
In homage to one of our past episodes, entitled "Nothing Went Boom", we talked about a very important boom this week. For a while. Actually, we talked about a couple of booms. What booms are those? Well, tune in and find out! Also, Beagle goes on a whole rant about funky astrophysicist naming...
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We Take Sole Credit
This week Ethan and Iain discuss the politics surrounding NASA and the pulled nomination of Jared Isaacman. We also discuss the fallout between Musk and Trump and what that means for SpaceX contracts. After the political bit we talk about the Hakuto R mission and StarShip's ninth test flight. Our...
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A Very Interesting Episode
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...
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I Like Vulcan A Latte
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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Thats a Lot of Dolphins
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...
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This Better Not Land Sideways... Again
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! Stay in touch with us: Patreon...
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Oops, It's A Tesla!
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! Follow Us! Patreon -https://www.patreon.com/c/Maxq_News Website...
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This is Good, This is Bad, But This is Good!
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...
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When In Doubt, More Boosters!
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…
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PLD Space - Set Up for Success?
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…
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The Busiest Week Ever
This week Starship launched and what a catch that was. We have several thoughts we didn't even have time for a cold open! Europa Clipper also launched this past week and Iain has some controversial thoughts on it. Then Ethan talks about all of the contracts that were singed this week (note from...
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Two Anomalies, One Week
Like the name suggests, we've got a double whammy in terms of anomalies this week -- one with a Falcon 9 (yes, again) and one with a Vulcan SRB... come give a listen to our analysis of what exactly happened and why only one of them is getting an FAA investigation. What else do we have? Hurricane...
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It's in the First Sentence, Beagle!
This week, on the return of Max-Q (sorry 'bout that.): We chat about SLC-40 finally hosting crew Crew-9 (and a half), plus the future possibilities for the cut crew Deep Blue Space's Nebula-1 Vertical Testing Vehicle... and their drone pilot. Firefly gets paid The Office of Unhelpful and…
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Are We Surprised? No.
This week Iain goes solo for a retro style show with futuristic topics. There were many new things happening this week such as Stoke doing suction testing, a New Glenn at Port Canaveral, and a new satellite bus. There were also a few old topics such as Viper coming back from the dead and some...
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JPL, the NPS of NASA
This week Iain and Beagle discuss old news, new news, and things that aren't news! For starters we provide some updates into what happened during Starlink 9-3, freak out about an asteroid that's way too close for comfort, and have a debate about whether free launch service is a good idea (Hint:...
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Go Axiom, RIP Fry's Electronics
This has been a CRAZY week! Iain survived Beryl, but his fence did not. CHAPEA went much better than Biosphere 2. We remember one of the all-time greats, Joe Engle, a veteran of the late Apollo and early Space Shuttle programs at NASA, and we rant about Europe's space industry. Ani is forced to...
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Baby Shuttle, Runaway Rocket, and Funky Rocks
In this episode, Beagle and Ani cover every corner of the globe, from a Japanese H3 launch and a runaway Chinese rocket to an American company expanding to international facilities and a rocket losing a payload — all this and more on this week’s episode! What, you expected our links here? Yeah,...
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Sounds Like A Pretty Pun Job
Ethan and Ani (as well as Iain) discuss all things rocket lab and how peter beck started it. They also discuss Firefly, a UN council meeting, ESA's return to space with Ariane 6. they also briefly mention Chinas return to the moon (or rather their return to earth) Ariane 6 to make its debut:...
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What a Wild Week!
Love is in the air? Wrong, it's Starliner docked to the ISS. This week was wild. Starliner launched a crew for the first time ever and is (as of publishing) docked to the ISS, Starship flew flawlessly, and there was tons of other news around the world, ranging from launch dates being announced to...
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That's a Lotta Sixes! (Feat. Scrubliner!)
Beagle runs rampant on a solo show, including doing far too little research, running into a lot of sixes, bemoaning Starliner scrubbing, but hey, at least we have Starship coming up! X(formerly known as Twitter) : https://twitter.com/MaxQ_production Threads…
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I Couldn't Bench That!
In this weeks show Iain and Ving (Max-Q News' News Team Director) discuss interstellar science missions such as Voyager 1 and Euclid. Apparently Tory Bruno and ULA think airships are a good idea (and we agree). Starship does some things and a raptor blew up. Its a fun episode, enjoy! X(formerly...
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I Think I’m Starting To See A Trend Here…
In this weeks episode Iain and Beagle discuss Astrobotic, some more Astrobotic, and to top it all off even more Astrobotic. Interspersed in there is some Starliner discussion, Vulcan stuff, and some new policy. its been a fairly light week so its a shorter show, enjoy! X(formerly known as…
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Office of Unhelpful and Redundant
Iain and Beagle discuss FAA regulation bureaucracy as well as the SES and Intelsat merger, and Lockheed and Terran Orbital in a whole "Will They, Won't They" situation. SpaceX released a new EVA spacesuit that we think has a diaper. Oh, and Orion lost some big chunks of its heat shield. Starliner...
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There's No Way This Could Work... Could It?
In this episode, Beagle and Ani go just a little loopy. We discuss all kinds of crazy things, like: Stoke’s completed first stage engine A radical new SSTO spaceplane by Radiant The mad scientists at DARPA funding a way to make a satellite orbit the Earth at nearly half of traditional orbital...
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This Name Sucks
Iain and Beagle discuss the past two weeks of news, riff on MLV and its terrible name, and talk about the two lunar landers that were on their side (hint: one of them survived). and then we become arm chair legal experts and make fun of a Boeing lawsuit. Stick around till the end for a special...
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There’s One Fork In Hawthorne
In this weeks show: Ani and Iain talk all things starship and how well the flight went. Then they talk about Starliner and and FCC license. Then they talk about unicorns.. that cant be right? Then Ving joins Iain to talk about stuff that Iain doesn't understand. By which we mean The latest...
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Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Loose, Astra Lost
This week Iain and Ani talk about all things budget wise except everything else other than what we know. Iain drags Astra through the mud and definitely gets himself on a shortlist of people not to hire. They both go into a deep dive on why astra has failed and finish out with some good tips on…
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If I Had a Nickel Every Time We Missed a Week...
In today's episode, Beagle and Iain roast Astra again, make two jokes stolen straight from Dr. Doofenshmirtz, discuss the NASA Office of the Inspector General (OIG), talk about Blue Origin and Starship testing, discuss a shattered rotor blade, and more! ...and Beagle gets a second nickel for us...
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A Big Hunk of Steel
IM-1 launch Ingenuity's shattered rotor blades 300 Flights for Falcon 9 New Glenn goes vertical H3 nails the second launch Launch of Progress MS-26 Resupply to ISS And bonus topics! Max-Q News Website Twitter/X Discord
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
In this week's episode, Beagle and Iain discuss Blue Origin, Firefly advances, JPL suffering, and make a few Super Bowl bets from Iain and Beagle (Yes, we know, the game's over now. But it was fun!) We also got: "PHOOMPH", more acronyms, and Beagle refuses to pay taxes ("jokingly". I don't care…
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We're So Back!
THE MAX-Q PODCAST IS BACK, BABY! Beagle and Iain make their triumphant return to the scene with a fresh slate and new motivations to run this podcast! Today we bid farewell to Ingenuity and LC-49, congratulate Sierra Space and Dynetics on jobs well done, and go on a talk about why you, dear…
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We're Coming Back! (2024 Trailer, I Guess)
A shorter episode this week, just to let you all know that we've not forgotten you! Iain and I (It's Beagle, hello!) have been super busy, but starting next weekend we should both be back on the show. Hope to see you there! Website: Max-Q Homepage – Maximum Aerodynamic News! (max-q-news.space)...
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Devon Papandrew -Stoke Space
Article version of the interview -Max-Q News Max-Q News Join our discord!
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A Staircase Of Testing
Venezuela signs up for Chinas new Moon Base Initiative -SpaceNews SpaceForce NSSL Phase 3 launch contracting -CNBC Ship27 dome implosion (photo) -RGVAerialPhotography Upcoming launches -Space Launch Now Max-Q News -https://max-q-news.space/ Join the Max-Q News Discord server!
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I Can't Believe It's Not Symmetrical!
Starlink 5-13 Launch. Launch Recap Ariane 5 Retires on Successful Final Flight. Article Blue Origin Progress Update. Daily Hopper Comic. VEGA C Z40 Motor Failure. Article ISS Orders Final 2 IROSAs. Redwire Article Upcoming Launch Manifest. Max-Q Website Max-Q Discord
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That Rocket is Old!
Rocket Lab Launches First HASTE Mission. Rocket Lab Twitter HASTE Article SpaceX Launches PSN Satria. SpaceX Twitter SpaceX Launches Starlink 5-7. SpaceX Twitter SpaceX Launches Starlink 5-12. SpaceX Twitter ULA Launches NROL-68. ULA Twitter ULA Announces Vulcan Delay. Statement Arianespace...
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Record for Me, Not for Thee!
Starlink 5-11 Launch. SpaceX Twitter Transporter-8 Launch. SpaceX Twitter CZ-2D Launch. Per Cosmic Penguin on Twitter PLD Space Miura 1 Abort. Raúl Torres on Twitter Ariane 5 Rollout Postponed. Arianespace on Twitter ULA Centaur V Details Update. Per Tory Bruno on Twitter Virgin Galactic…
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The Wind Broke
Starliner Delayed. Boeing Press Release Windbreak demolished. NSF Live Clip Senzhou-15 Returns to Earth. Live Coverage Recap Vulcan completes Flight Readiness Firing. Nominal Run per Tory Bruno and ULA Twitter Ursa Major Lays off 80 employees. Per Michael Sheetz cia CNBC CRS-28 Success. NASA Blog...
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God Forbid I Get to Stay on the ISS!
Virgin Galactic returns to flight. Press Release Virgin Orbit Sale Complete with Rocket Lab, Launcher, and Stratolaunch all purchasing assets. Per Filing and Rocket Lab Twitter SpaceX completes first ever RTLS on a crew mission. SpaceX Twitter Ship 25 on Pad B, awaiting 6 engine static fire.…
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Astronaut 007 -James Bond
Blue Origin wins NASA contract for Artemis V and VI lunar landers. Press release Blue Origins Jarvis at launch pad. Tom McCool -Twitter Tory Bruno talks about Vulcan testing. Tory Bruno -Twitter Kathy Lueders goes to SpaceX. Michael Sheetz -CNBC Astra financial results. Jeff Foust -Twitter…
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Wait... We Didn't Mean To Do That!
Sources Starbase live 24/7 cameras: HoopCam Dome -Epic Spaceflight, Lab Padre, Starbase live -NasaSpaceFlight DearMoon website S24 static fire -Space.com Space Launch Now About Artemis 1 -NASA Soyuz Leak -Space.com Official Max-Q Discord server: https://discord.gg/Jk3fuNjwYt Max-Q website coming...
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Breaking News!!!
Starbase Live cams- LabPadre NasaSpaceFlight Artemis 1 Nasa.gov Join the official Max-Q discord server Website coming soon!
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In The Year 202
Starship news 24/7 live cam of pad 39A -SpaceFlightNow Hwy 4 road closures -Cameron County SKY Perfect JSAT SuperBird 9 contract -SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings inc Launches Starlink 4-27 -Rocket Launches Today General news SLS rollout (live cam at pad 39B) -Space Flight Now Rocket Lab Photon to Venus...
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Our humble little weekly podcast, documenting all the things about space we find cool! Co-hosted by Iain and Beagle, two writers for Max-Q News, we take an in-depth look at current events and emerging companies.
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