Ranked #1
76: SpaceX DM-2 and the Impact of Commercial Crew
76: SpaceX DM-2 and the Impact of Commercial Crew
This week on SPEXcast, we discuss SpaceX's historic Demonstration Mission 2 for NASA as part of the Commercial Crew Prog... Read more
1 Jun 2020
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59mins
Ranked #2
41: SPEXcast Book Club: Ignition Chapter 1 and 2
41: SPEXcast Book Club: Ignition Chapter 1 and 2
Today's episode is a new format; SPEXcast Book Club! We will be choosing a space-related book, and reading through it a ... Read more
2 Nov 2017
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1hr 1min
Ranked #3
44: NASA Budget 2019
44: NASA Budget 2019
SPEXcast sits down with SPEX alumn, Anthony Hennig, to discuss the proposed changes in the FY2019 NASA budget. We delve ... Read more
25 Feb 2018
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1hr 29mins
Ranked #4
47: GOES-S, StarLink, and the Challenges of Space Engineering Programs
47: GOES-S, StarLink, and the Challenges of Space Engineering Programs
Engineering space to be useful to humans is hard work. Today on SPEXcast we sit down to discuss two space satellite netw... Read more
10 Mar 2018
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1hr 29mins
Ranked #5
70: SpaceX Starlink Takes Flight
70: SpaceX Starlink Takes Flight
This week on SPEXcast we recap Space'x first operational Starlink launch. SpaceX plans to build and launch thousands of ... Read more
24 Sep 2019
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59mins
Ranked #6
54: SpaceX's New Mars Rocket Factory and a Fully-Reusable Falcon 9
54: SpaceX's New Mars Rocket Factory and a Fully-Reusable Falcon 9
This week on SPEXcast, we dive into this developments and give the inside scoop on SpaceX’s recovery efforts. On April 9... Read more
27 Apr 2018
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46mins
Ranked #7
60: SpaceX Flight Control, CRS-15 Payloads, and Chinese Lunar Missions
60: SpaceX Flight Control, CRS-15 Payloads, and Chinese Lunar Missions
This week on SPEXcast, we dive into the recent announcements by SpaceX on their new launch complex, the exciting new res... Read more
16 Jun 2018
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55mins
Ranked #8
48: MIT New Space Age Conference and SXSW
48: MIT New Space Age Conference and SXSW
This week on SPEXcast, we delve into illegal cubesats, Blue Origin's plan for a cislunar economy, as well as Elon's thou... Read more
17 Mar 2018
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #9
55: Digging into Mars with InSight's Troy Hudson, Instrument Systems Engineer
55: Digging into Mars with InSight's Troy Hudson, Instrument Systems Engineer
This week on SPEXcast, we sit down with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineer Troy Hudson to discuss NASA's Mars InSi... Read more
4 May 2018
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1hr
Ranked #10
53: NASA's New Administrator, OmegA, and Europa Clipper
53: NASA's New Administrator, OmegA, and Europa Clipper
This week on SPEXcast we talk about news from the 34th Space Symposium, political intrigue behind Europa Clipper, and th... Read more
20 Apr 2018
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38mins
Ranked #11
58: Terraforming Mars: Challenges and Misconceptions
58: Terraforming Mars: Challenges and Misconceptions
This is the last part of our four part 'Mars May' series where we discuss the missions and technologies enabling Mars ex... Read more
1 Jun 2018
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47mins
Ranked #12
57: Mars Rover Operations with Doug Klein
57: Mars Rover Operations with Doug Klein
The third installment of SPEXcast's "Mars May" leads us to a part of interplanetary missions that doesn't get much atten... Read more
21 May 2018
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1hr
Ranked #13
71: In-Space Refueling with Orbit Fab's James Bultitude
71: In-Space Refueling with Orbit Fab's James Bultitude
This week on SPEXcast we sit down with James Bultitude, Lead Engineer at Orbit Fab. Orbit Fab aims to build 'gas station... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #14
68: Space Policy with SpacePolicyOnline.com's Marcia Smith
68: Space Policy with SpacePolicyOnline.com's Marcia Smith
Whether it be NASA directives, FCC regulations or military operations in space, there's no doubt that policy has a signi... Read more
18 Jul 2019
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1hr
Ranked #15
63: Student Innovation at Spaceport America Cup 2018
63: Student Innovation at Spaceport America Cup 2018
On June 19th, 2018 SPEXcast headed down to Las Cruces, New Mexico for the Spaceport America Cup. We were able to speak w... Read more
13 Sep 2018
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2hr 11mins
Ranked #16
59: Copenhagen Suborbitals with Mads Wilson
59: Copenhagen Suborbitals with Mads Wilson
This week on SPEXcast, we sit down with Mads Wilson, communications lead for Copenhagen Suborbitals, a volunteer space p... Read more
4 Jun 2018
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51mins
Ranked #17
61: Unlocking the Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar with ICEYE's Pekka Laurila
61: Unlocking the Potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar with ICEYE's Pekka Laurila
This week on SPEXcast, we sit down with Pekka Laurila, Co-Founder of ICEYE, a New Space startup trying to revolutionize ... Read more
22 Jun 2018
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38mins
Ranked #18
56: Mars Cube One, the first interplanetary CubeSats with Joel Steinkraus
56: Mars Cube One, the first interplanetary CubeSats with Joel Steinkraus
This week on SPEXcast we continue 'Mars May' with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineer Joel Steinkraus to discuss tw... Read more
12 May 2018
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59mins
Ranked #19
64: SpaceX Raptor Breathes Fire and Virgin Galactic Takes Flight
64: SpaceX Raptor Breathes Fire and Virgin Galactic Takes Flight
This week on SPEXcast, we kick of 2019 with some of the biggest space stories of the year, so far. SpaceX has radically ... Read more
14 Feb 2019
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47mins
Ranked #20
66: Robotic Exploration with SpaceIL and Hayabusa2
66: Robotic Exploration with SpaceIL and Hayabusa2
This week on SPEXcast, we dive into the exciting advancements and discoveries robotic science vehicles are making across... Read more
1 Apr 2019
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46mins