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MECO is opinion and analysis of spaceflight, exploration, policy, and strategy, by Anthony Colangelo.

Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
T+207: 2022 Preview, Predictions, and Things to Watch (with Eric Berger) 00:53:12 2022-01-21 22:05
T+206: Going Independent 00:06:43 2021-12-23 13:13
T+205: Phil McAlister, Director of Commercial Spaceflight at NASA 01:01:50 2021-12-16 14:30
T+204: ISS Port Management (with Bill Spetch of NASA) 00:22:35 2021-12-14 15:00
T+203: Starlab with Marshall Smith, SVP of Space Systems at Nanoracks 00:28:53 2021-12-07 15:00
T+202: The Geopolitics of ASAT Weapons and Space Debris (with Brian Weeden) 00:43:44 2021-11-30 18:47
T+201: Russia’s Reckless and Awful Anti-Satellite Operation 00:24:42 2021-11-19 17:58
T+200: Orbital Reef, Starlab, and the ISS Conundrum 00:35:02 2021-10-28 19:33
T+199: A Visit to the NASTAR Center (with Glenn King) 01:03:44 2021-10-14 14:19
T+198: Ryan McDevitt, CEO of Benchmark Space Systems 00:39:05 2021-10-07 18:20
T+197: NASA’s Human Spaceflight Directorate Shakeup 00:22:14 2021-09-23 17:02
T+196: Checking In on Small Launch with Firefly Alpha, Astra LV0006 00:25:10 2021-09-08 20:54
T+195: Blue Origin’s Project Jarvis, Suborbital Flights, and Nauka Fallout (with Eric Berger) 00:44:37 2021-08-03 21:49
T+194: Branson & Bezos Fly To Space 00:23:04 2021-07-23 18:30
T+193: Marcia Smith, SpacePolicyOnline.com 00:39:21 2021-07-09 14:09
T+192: iROSA with Matt LaPointe and Andrew Rush 00:41:13 2021-06-23 14:00
T+191: Phil Bracken, VP of Engineering at Spaceflight 00:44:45 2021-06-08 14:00
T+190: Brock Howe, Nanoracks Bishop Airlock Program Manager 00:30:20 2021-05-24 14:00
T+189: Stephen Forbes, DARPA Blackjack Program Manager 00:38:26 2021-05-17 14:03
T+188: Starship SN15, and the HLS Protests 00:31:24 2021-05-11 23:05
T+187: Eric Berger on Artemis, Starship, Amazon’s Atlas V Rides, and the State of Blue Origin 00:43:00 2021-04-23 20:06
T+186: NASA Selects Starship as Artemis Lander 00:35:25 2021-04-20 14:09
T+185: Bill Nelson Nominated as NASA Administrator 00:24:49 2021-03-26 12:00
T+184: Jake Robins on the 2021 Mars Fleet and Future Exploration 00:41:03 2021-03-16 08:05
T+183: Peter Beck on Neutron, Going Public, and Eating Hats 00:43:19 2021-03-05 13:00
T+182: Rocket Lab Neutron, Relativity Terran R 00:25:59 2021-03-02 16:59
T+181: Falcon 9 Fleet, ABL in the UK, Firefly to the Moon 00:29:35 2021-02-10 12:00
T+180: Christian Davenport, The Washington Post, on the SLS Green Run, Axiom Ax-1, Virgin Orbit 00:37:17 2021-01-28 12:00
T+179: Meagan Crawford, SpaceFund 00:44:50 2021-01-18 12:00
T+178: Andrew Jones, on China’s Chang’e-5, 2021 Plans, and More 00:46:07 2021-01-11 12:00
T+177: NASA VCLS 2, Relativity, Astra, and Firefly 00:19:58 2020-12-21 13:00
T+176: The Flight of Starship SN8 00:26:17 2020-12-14 16:28
T+175: Delays 00:25:18 2020-12-05 14:00
T+174: SpaceX Crew-1 Kicks Off New Era for ISS 00:25:58 2020-11-25 12:00
T+173: Headlines 00:31:00 2020-11-14 23:43
T+172: Lunar Politics 00:33:53 2020-10-20 12:00
T+171: SpaceX, L3Harris Selected by SDA for Missile Warning Satellites 00:23:13 2020-10-09 12:00
T+170: Catching Up on the News 00:22:48 2020-10-05 22:47
T+169: Commercial Small Launcher Updates 00:25:41 2020-08-13 12:00
T+168: SpaceX and ULA Win NSSL Phase 2 00:40:39 2020-08-10 16:24
T+167: Phillip Hargrove, NASA Launch Services Program 00:42:49 2020-07-29 12:00
T+166: Laura Klicker and Daniel Gillies, Astrobotic 00:47:49 2020-07-23 13:00
T+165: Caleb Henry on the OneWeb Acquisition, Starlink Antennas, C-Band Drama, and More 01:01:57 2020-07-22 00:20
T+164: An Announcement, and a Check-in on International Space Policy and NSSL Phase 2 00:36:22 2020-07-17 18:53
T+163: Suborbital Crew, Virgin Galactic to ISS 00:18:04 2020-07-03 12:00
T+162: Grant Bonin, SVP of Business Development at Spaceflight 00:46:19 2020-06-26 12:30
T+161: Mark Wiese, Manager of NASA’s Gateway Deep Space Logistics 00:40:52 2020-06-22 17:45
T+160: Lueders Leads HEO, Northrop Grumman Awarded HALO Contract 00:24:29 2020-06-17 16:07
T+159: SpaceX Demo-2 Carries Crew to ISS 00:29:47 2020-06-05 20:30
T+158: Doug Loverro Resigns, and a Bit About the Artemis Accords 00:20:29 2020-05-26 12:00
T+157: Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX Win NASA Lunar Lander Contracts 00:36:50 2020-05-05 18:32
T+156: Sean Mahoney, CEO of Masten Space Systems 01:04:05 2020-04-30 13:00
T+155: Peter Beck on the Pandemic’s Effect on the Industry and Rocket Lab’s Busy Few Months 01:01:04 2020-04-22 13:00
T+154: Tim Ellis, CEO and Cofounder of Relativity 00:42:03 2020-04-17 13:00
T+153: Boeing to Refly Starliner Uncrewed Test, While SpaceX Crew Plans Firm Up 00:19:25 2020-04-09 13:54
T+152: SpaceX’s Dragon XL Wins Gateway Logistics Services Contract 00:24:43 2020-04-02 18:21
T+151: Northrop Grumman, Satellite Servicing, and DARPA’s RSGS 00:19:55 2020-03-23 18:40
T+150: SpaceX Signs Crew Flight Agreements with Axiom, Space Adventures 00:20:25 2020-03-09 16:57
T+149: Let’s Talk About Starship with Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut 01:04:02 2020-02-28 23:26
T+148: Gerst to SpaceX, and Why Landing is Part of Mission Success 00:20:31 2020-02-19 23:23
T+147: Mike Suffredini, President & CEO of Axiom 00:46:16 2020-02-13 11:00
T+146: Loren Grush on Commercial Crew, Starlink, NASA Authorization, and More 00:54:27 2020-01-31 13:00
T+145: Caleb Henry 00:52:00 2020-01-25 14:00
T+144: 2019 Impacts 00:20:12 2019-12-31 18:09
T+143: Starliner, 2020 US Space Budget 00:24:44 2019-12-23 18:30
T+142: T.S. Kelso, CelesTrak and AGI 00:41:55 2019-12-16 15:31
T+141: Dylan Taylor, Voyager Space Holdings 00:35:42 2019-12-13 11:00
T+140: Launch Protests and Lander Hopefuls 00:23:05 2019-11-27 18:29
T+139: RemoveDEBRIS with Richard Duke 00:38:49 2019-11-21 11:00
T+138: Peter Beck, Founder of Rocket Lab 00:29:30 2019-10-30 10:00
T+137: Artemis Politics, United Lander Alliance 00:17:18 2019-10-28 16:33
T+136: Starship to GTO, SSO from Florida 00:17:43 2019-10-12 19:54
T+135: Jake Robins on Starship 00:31:29 2019-10-08 12:05
T+134: Headlines (with news on Orion, NEOCam, and more) 00:16:58 2019-09-27 20:06
T+133: Kurt Klaus on CLPS 00:33:40 2019-09-17 11:00
T+132: SpaceX SmallSat Updates 00:10:13 2019-09-12 15:03
T+131: Andrew Rush, CEO of Made in Space 00:43:29 2019-08-31 11:00
T+130: SmallSat Launch Roundup 00:22:18 2019-08-14 21:52
T+129: Steve Altemus and Dr. Tim Crain, Intuitive Machines 00:48:26 2019-08-05 11:00
T+128: NASA Shuffles CLPS, Partners on Blue Moon and Starship 00:19:53 2019-08-02 16:59
T+127: Gateway Habitat, Starhopper, and ABL Space Systems 00:20:48 2019-07-28 16:31
T+126: The NASA Ousters 00:18:12 2019-07-18 16:21
T+125: Andrew Jones 00:19:29 2019-07-03 20:47
T+124: Gateway Logistics Services, FY2020 NDAA, and Small GEO Satellites 00:24:57 2019-06-20 11:00
T+123: The Noosphere of Influence 00:25:27 2019-06-10 16:22
T+122: National Security SpaceX Lawsuit 00:28:22 2019-05-28 20:51
T+121: Artemis, Blue Moon, Starship, and Politics 00:26:51 2019-05-17 11:00
T+120: Dr. Mike Baine, Axiom Space 00:47:50 2019-05-07 20:00
T+119: Dr. John Charles 00:52:32 2019-04-18 17:00
T+118: Rapid Agile Launch Initiative 00:23:58 2019-04-08 11:00
T+117: Q&A 00:28:16 2019-04-02 11:00
T+116: On the Moon by 2024 00:21:32 2019-03-28 10:00
T+115: Caleb Henry 00:47:13 2019-03-18 10:00
T+114: EM-1 Hot Drama with Eric Berger 00:46:34 2019-03-13 21:00
T+113: Q&A 00:32:25 2019-03-01 21:00
T+112: SLC-20, SPD-4, and a Soyuz Soapbox 00:15:21 2019-02-27 14:45
T+111: SpaceX, the Established Launch Provider 00:30:33 2019-02-21 17:50
T+110: Starship, New Glenn, and RS1 Updates 00:22:22 2019-02-11 11:00
T+109: Q&A 00:39:38 2019-02-02 20:00
T+108: Layoffs and Launch Sites 00:28:14 2019-01-21 11:00
T+107: Chris Gebhardt 00:58:29 2019-01-15 11:00
T+106: Q&A 00:42:59 2019-01-01 22:45
T+105: Jonathan McDowell 00:35:00 2018-12-29 11:00
T+104: Jake Robins 00:28:02 2018-12-11 19:58
T+103: Commercial Lunar Payload Services 00:32:46 2018-12-04 19:40
T+102: November Q&A 00:41:47 2018-11-30 22:00
T+101: Starlink Addendum 00:08:58 2018-11-09 14:07
T+100: Midterms, and a Thought on Starlink 00:24:14 2018-11-08 17:00
T+99: October Q&A 00:40:33 2018-11-01 10:00
T+98: Gateway Logistics Services 00:27:28 2018-10-26 17:30
T+97: SLS OIG Report, Air Force LSA Awards 00:25:37 2018-10-15 19:25
T+96: Blue Origin & Harris 00:15:55 2018-10-10 11:00
T+95: September Q&A 00:36:26 2018-10-01 11:00
T+94: #dearMoon 00:19:54 2018-09-24 11:00
T+93: NASA Goddard and Restore-L 00:30:13 2018-09-13 11:00
T+92: Marcia Smith 00:30:04 2018-09-04 11:00
T+91: August Q&A 00:25:00 2018-09-01 11:00
T+90: Andrew Jones 00:37:31 2018-08-30 11:00
T+89: Lockheed’s Small Sat Strategy, NASA Tipping Points Contracts 00:26:12 2018-08-13 17:21
T+88: CubeRover, Michael Provenzano and Andrew Horchler 00:49:17 2018-07-30 11:00
T+87: Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 00:21:30 2018-07-18 18:00
T+86: Falcon Heavy Wins AFSPC-52 00:18:22 2018-06-27 11:00
T+85: Support and Criticism for the Lunar Gateway 00:21:08 2018-06-19 18:39
T+84: The End of NASA Exploration Exclusivity 00:15:59 2018-06-04 11:00
T+83: Falcon 9 Block 5, RL10 on Centaur V 00:23:15 2018-05-22 11:00
T+82: Jon Goff, Altius Space Machines 01:05:04 2018-05-09 11:00
T+81: Resource Prospector Cancellation 00:12:20 2018-05-02 11:46
T+80: DARPA Launch Challenge 00:18:46 2018-04-25 17:50
T+79: Orbital ATK’s OmegA, NASA’s Bridenstine 00:24:45 2018-04-21 11:00
T+78: No Cost-Plus, But No Vision, Either 00:19:33 2018-04-09 11:00
T+77: Blue Origin Reconfigures New Glenn 00:28:40 2018-04-04 11:00
T+76: Caleb Henry 00:32:41 2018-03-27 11:00
T+75: March Roundup 00:28:49 2018-03-23 10:00
T+74: Stagnation and Opportunity 00:27:35 2018-03-09 11:00
T+73: Commercial Crew Contingency Plans, and the End of ISS 00:22:29 2018-02-23 11:00
T+72: SpaceX’s Motivation for Falcon Heavy 00:34:17 2018-02-13 11:00
T+71: Commercial Crew, Congress, and the GAO 00:23:14 2018-01-30 11:00
T+70: Polar Launches from Cape Canaveral 00:23:53 2018-01-17 11:00
T+69: Robin Seemangal 01:04:11 2017-12-27 11:00
T+68: Mike Lewis, CTO of NanoRacks 00:48:44 2017-12-20 09:00
T+67: Special Preview of MECO Headlines, December 1–8, 2017 00:21:23 2017-12-08 12:30
T+66: A Visit to NanoRacks, and Virgin Orbit Books a Department of Defense Launch 00:26:49 2017-11-27 09:00
T+65: The New GEO Model, Orbital ATK’s Composite Case, Good and Bad SpaceX News 00:25:44 2017-11-11 09:00
T+64: BE-4 Fires Up, and Some Thoughts on the Future of Commercial and Military Launch 00:24:19 2017-10-28 09:00
T+63: Centaur V, BFR Updates 00:26:14 2017-10-18 09:00
T+62: Chris Gebhardt on SpaceX’s BFR 2017 Update 01:08:32 2017-10-05 04:00
T+61: Northrop Grumman Acquires Orbital ATK, Lockheed Martin Unveils New Satellite Family 00:22:11 2017-09-25 09:00
T+60: New Glenn’s Fairing, OneWeb’s Factory 00:23:32 2017-09-16 09:00
T+59: Jake Robins 00:49:37 2017-09-07 19:00
T+58: Totality 00:17:47 2017-08-25 09:00
T+57: Caleb Henry 00:33:11 2017-08-16 18:00
T+56: Small Launchers and Advanced Propulsion 00:33:50 2017-08-11 09:00
T+55: ISS and Beyond 00:28:14 2017-08-04 09:00
T+54: Eric Berger 00:32:59 2017-07-27 09:00
T+53: Loren Grush 00:37:49 2017-07-22 09:00
T+52: XCOR Winds Down, ULA Wins STP-3 00:25:08 2017-07-13 09:00
T+51: The SpaceX Steamroller, Blue Origin Chooses Alabama 00:26:19 2017-06-29 09:00
T+50: Boeing Gets XS-1, SpaceX Gets X-37B 00:27:58 2017-06-15 09:00
T+49: Dr. Thomas Lang 01:20:51 2017-06-05 09:00
T+48: Rand Simberg 00:58:26 2017-05-27 09:00
T+47: Uncrewed EM-1 Delayed to 2019 00:32:08 2017-05-16 09:00
T+46: Eric Berger 00:30:45 2017-05-02 09:00
T+45: 2018 Air Force Launch Vehicle Contracts, and the Dim Future of Antares 00:36:33 2017-04-20 09:00
T+44: SpaceX and the Age of Reusability 00:32:17 2017-04-01 09:00
T+43: March Lightning Round 00:27:02 2017-03-25 08:00
T+42: Blue Origin Introduces New Glenn 00:28:00 2017-03-09 09:00
T+41: EM-1 Follow-up, Dragon 2-Falcon Heavy to the Moon 00:40:52 2017-03-02 09:00
T+40: The Potentially Infamous EM-1 Memo 00:26:28 2017-02-18 09:00
T+39: Opportunities for Private Companies within Government Programs 00:18:07 2017-02-09 16:15
T+38: 2017 NASA Transition Authorization Act Speculation 00:28:14 2017-02-02 09:00
T+37: Government Subsidies, Private Capability, and the 2010 National Space Policy 00:20:06 2017-01-27 09:00
T+36: Falcon 9 Flies with New Fueling Procedures, and the NASA-Boeing-Soyuz Saga 00:30:05 2017-01-19 09:00
T+35: NASA Policy Grab Bag 00:21:21 2017-01-12 09:00
T+34: SpaceX’s COPV Investigation and Return to Flight 00:22:42 2017-01-05 09:00
T+33: SpaceX’s Commercial Crew Delay, Fueling Process Approved, and the Inmarsat-Falcon Heavy Situation 00:17:12 2016-12-15 09:00
T+32: Soyuz-U Failure and Satellite Servicing 00:23:32 2016-12-08 09:00
T+31: ULA’s RocketBuilder 00:20:10 2016-12-01 09:00
T+30: SpaceX Nearing Falcon 9 Return-to-Flight 00:33:04 2016-11-23 09:00
T+29: Commercializing the NASA Exploration Roadmap 00:32:44 2016-11-16 09:00
T+28: The Future of NASA and the Moon 00:28:44 2016-11-02 08:00
T+27: Financial vs. Political Capital and Mission Sustainability 00:30:28 2016-10-26 09:00
T+26: OA-5, Antares, and Orbital ATK’s Road Ahead 00:37:24 2016-10-19 09:00
T+25: Falcon 9 Updates and the 10% Discount 00:30:10 2016-10-12 09:00
T+24: ULA’s RapidLaunch and Commercial Market Competitiveness 00:22:59 2016-10-05 09:00
T+23: SpaceX Mars Architecture Initial Reactions 00:57:35 2016-09-28 09:00
T+22: SpaceX Mars Architecture Announcement Preamble 00:41:01 2016-09-21 09:00
T+21: Blue Origin Previews New Glenn 00:32:48 2016-09-14 09:00
T+20: Mike Johnson, Chief Designer at NanoRacks on NanoRacks’ History, NextSTEP, and Wet Workshops 00:51:54 2016-09-07 09:00
T+19: SpaceX’s Manifest, Flight-Proven Hardware, Blue Origin Updates, and Antares’ Engines 00:30:19 2016-08-31 09:00
T+18: Robert Zubrin on Mars Exploration and Colonization Internationally, within NASA, and at SpaceX 00:34:37 2016-08-24 09:00
T+17: NextSTEP Habitat Prototypes, and the Zombie Centaur 00:29:23 2016-08-17 09:00
T+16: Moon Express Licensing, and NASA’s Disdain for Artificial Gravity 00:27:27 2016-08-10 09:00
T+15: More SLS Roadmap Details, and Landed Falcon 9 Static Fires 00:17:59 2016-08-03 12:00
T+14: The Post-EM-1 Roadmap for SLS, and Potential Uses for SpaceX’s BFR 00:26:21 2016-07-27 12:00
T+13: SpaceX’s CRS-9 Success, Senate Hearing Recap, and US-Russian Plans for the Moon 00:25:04 2016-07-20 12:00
T+12: The Competition of Reusability Between Falcon 9, Vulcan, and Ariane 6 00:23:05 2016-07-13 12:00
T+11: SpaceX’s LZ-1 Expansion, Dream Chaser’s UN Ambitions, China and ESA’s Growing Relationship 00:25:06 2016-07-06 12:00
T+10: Logan Kamperschroer on the Current State and Near Future of Storable Propellants 00:27:43 2016-06-29 12:00
T+9: ExoMars 2016 and 2020, Chinese Partnerships and Policy 00:17:55 2016-06-22 12:00
T+8: Masten’s Xodiac and XaeroB, Blue Origin’s Next Flight of New Shepard 00:13:00 2016-06-15 12:00
T+7: Bezos and Musk at Code Conference, and a Hard Look at Vulcan’s Economics 00:25:12 2016-06-08 12:00
T+6: Orbital ATK’s Next-Gen Vehicle, Falcon 9 Proving Its Reusability, and ULA’s Tough Future 00:15:41 2016-06-01 12:00
T+5: Space Stations Around the Moon and Mars, ExoMars 2016, and China’s Momentum in Space 00:16:58 2016-05-25 12:00
T+4: Boeing’s CST-100, SpaceX’s Dragon 2, and a Scorched Falcon 9 00:13:52 2016-05-18 12:00
T+3: Falcon 9 GTO Mission Drone Ship Landing, Orbital ATK’s Current and Future Launch Vehicles 00:11:56 2016-05-11 12:00
T+2: SpaceX’s Red Dragon, Falcon Performance, and the Political Fallout of OA-6 00:14:22 2016-05-04 12:00
T+1: The Near Future of NASA’s Orion and SLS Programs 00:11:53 2016-04-27 12:00
T-0: The Near Future of US-Based Competitors 00:18:08 2016-04-20 12:00