T+305: The Starship 36 Explosion, and ESA Policy (with Adrian Beil, NASASpaceflight)

A special simulcast of this week’s Off-Nominal—the other show I do, if you somehow haven’t heard of it!—because it’s exactly the topic list with exactly the guest I had up next on my list. I’m joined by Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight to talk about the recent mayhem at Starbase, and to kick around European space policy topics in the run up to the ESA Ministerial later this year.

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Topics

• Adrian Beil (@BCCarCounters) / Twitter
• Adrian Beil, Author at NASASpaceFlight.com
• Off-Nominal - YouTube
• Episode 202 - Rapidly Adjusting (with Adrian Beil) - YouTube
• Following the Loss of Ship 36, SpaceX now Focuses on Rebuilding Masseys - NASASpaceFlight.com
• Jack Beyer on X: “Close up slow motion footage of the unexpected event(s) during Northrop Grumman’s BOLE DM-1 stb test today.”
• Northrop Grumman tests SLS Block 2 BOLE booster in Utah; nozzle issue seen - NASASpaceFlight.com
• ESA studying impacts of proposed NASA budget cuts - SpaceNews
• ESA moving ahead with ‘resilience from space’ satellite imaging program - SpaceNews

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