A bit disappointing that Christian Davenport doesn’t realize the falcon anomaly was in the second stage, which means the booster flight count is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

Correction @ 6:53: The failure was on the single-use second stage, not the reused booster.

I think the main problem with the budget isn't Nelson, it's a certain element in congress that cut over 5 billion dollars from NASAs budget.

Great to see both Loren and Laurie on the show!

Appear on Off-Nominal responsibly

I really like Loren, she allways brings a very good energy on the show and she's very sympathetic. But Lori definitely stole the show on this one for me. She's direct in a way that's absolutely refreshing.

Well Jaxa learned the hard way about putting billion dollar satellites on first launches.

“....so we have to do this again and I’m terrified of how much news is gonna happen” within hours of you saying that SpaceX had its first Falcon 9 failure in 8 years.

Ian Bell here. Nice to see you again, Paul. Hope you are well. BTW I still have the watercolour that you did for my parents.

Boom! Congrats on the new incoming child? There are worse guys to name your kid after than John EFIN Glenn.

FOCUS please.

I love boulevard! Try Tank 7 next.

Wish this interview was a little more intellectual. You could tell Tom was ready to dive into the the technical stuff would have loved some more interesting questions,

Lmao the ULA sniper embarrassment awkwardness xD

ULA can launch a rocket, but not apparently provide internet bandwidth haha.

Good interview

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Great to see some launch provider diversity on YT and not always on Elon’s junk. Sub’d !

This episode was great. Jakes takes and idea had me laughing so much.

😂😂😂 I love Phil Metzger. He's the best Sand Science Xitposter ever.

Lauren Lyons has such a good vibes and energy mixed with a great communicator! Kind of sad that she's not on SpaceX webcast but a pleasure to discover that she get invited to interview like yours... :)

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This was fun and informative. IridiumBoss has always been an awesome conversation, and it’s great to have him on OffNominal. This episode deserves more views!!

Great episode. Beck can be a little careful in his responses, but you did well to get him to open a little.

Fantastic interview. Thanks!

So all Rocket Lab 🚀 space craft are named after sub particles? 🔆

Great Episode guys. Top marks

Is this a space industry dedicated podcast? Did I just strike gold?

Great interview. You got Sr. Beck to laugh a bit. 😁

Brilliant interview!

I’d like to see podcasters that watch the other interviews first so they repeat less questions. Also seemed to be a bit time wasteful for someone who’s beyond busy.

WHERE'S NEUTRON? Just in from SpaceNews, "Blue Origin has secured a place in the national security space launch market with a contract Thursday. The company, along with SpaceX and ULA, won National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 launch contracts Thursday that are worth up to a combined $5.6 billion over five years."

What I might have asked is if they could crank up the performance of Archimedes for the 2nd stage? After all, its expendable so you don't need a long lifetime. Those extra seconds of Isp would make a big difference to the payload or orbit.

Not even joking, I start working a second job so I can purchase more Rocket Lab. I bought 30 shares of Tesla in 2019 (pre-split) and that made a huge change in my life. I bought 25 shares of NVIDIA in 2017 and that’s been a huge change as I’m still holding them. My only regrets were not going as all in as I should’ve. I will not be making the same mistake I made with Tesla and Nvidia, 2600 shares of Rocket Lab and hoping to reach 5,000 by the end of the year once this second job kicks off. Sir Peter Beck is the man!! He’s what we all thought Elon was going to be. LETS FKING GO🔥🔥🔥🔥

I am a RKLB shareholder, have been one for a long while and will be one for a long while to come. I have sought out Sir Peters many KZbin talk shows going back to the earliest year, to this one on the eve of the 50th ELECTRON launch. No small a achievement. The luxury of zero competition will hold to the end of 2024, even though ELECTRON has been the smallest commercial rocket in the world at 300 kg to 320 kg to LEO. Nothing stays the same. 2025 Will usher in the competitors, two in particular. FIREFLY ALPHA, 1,030 kg to LEO, and ABL's RS1 rocket, 1,350 kg to LEO. Both have come through a tough history since their founding, but survived, and stronger and more ready than they've ever been, thanks in part in no small measure to the US Government, their agencies, the Department of Defense, NASA, branches of the armed forces, in particular the US Airforce, assisting in the improvement of their original rocket and engines, to the excellent ready status they are in today. All done with contract awards through two stalwart Defense Contractors, NORTHROP GRUMMAN and LOCKHEED MARTIN. FIREFLY Aerospace, formally founded as FIREFLY Space systems, 2014, and its ALPHA rocket, 1,030 kg to LEO, was saved after bankruptcy of the founders in 2016, and afterwards from a UKRAINIAN "CONNECTION" that followed that was cleaned out by the US Government in 2022, on the eve of the Russian war on Ukraine, in the interest of National Security. The object was to secure the FIREFLY MIRANDA medium launch engines to replace the long saga with the Russian RD-180 engines, now ended by Congressional action. With security clearances restored, US Airforce and USSF contracts was awarded. NORTHROP GRUMMAN received the more powerful FIREFLY MIRANDA engines for a made-over, composite, ANTARES 330 booster, 16,000 kg to LEO, pushing its CYGNET CARGO upper stage for NASA to the ISS. FIREFLY had its ANTARES 330 booster to push it's new MLV upper stage. From LOCKHEED MARTIN, FIREFLY ALPHA received a contract June 5th, 2024, for 25 launches over 10 years. FIREFLY ALPHA has flown 4 times before Jan 2024. Launches 1, 2, 3, and 4 went like this, with some bumps: ALPHA 1 did reach the high atmosphere on a demo , then 1 of 4 REAVER engines went out, forcing a ground controlled detonation. And yes, ALPHA 2 and 4, did reach orbit, and the 2nd stage did insert the client's vehicles in less than accurate orbits, but corrections were able to be made. But ALPHA 3 was a gem! A complete success for client USSF, doing a RAPID RESPONSE launch. ABL and its original RS1 rocket engine E2, 1,000 kg to LEO, under a LOCKHEED MARTIN agreement, gained access to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) near Edwards Air Force Base, where eventually the E2 engine power was improved to 1,350 kg to LEO. In April 2021, inked a deal with LOCKHEED MARTIN for 58 launches over an extended number of years. ABL will test fly their improved RS1 later in 2024. The Government interest in RS1, has always been its integrated, mobile launch container from austere locations. This rapid response capability will be demonstrated at Shetland Space Port, Scotland, UK, under a LOCKHEED MARTIN contract. Years ago, Rocket Lab ELECTRON competed with ABL RS1 for a LOCKHEED MARTIN launch contract at Sutherland Space Port, Scotland. ABL was selected, but an objection from a UK company, active at Sutherland, resulted in the Shetland location being developed. This is the the new reality ELECTRON faces in the remainder of 2024, and 2025, and beyond, when more rockets are coming.

Can they use the fairing to slow the ship down and then steer it on the way down. If the fairing was spit into 4 you could really fly this thing down.

Spacex rocket engineers working for rocket lab. Thats big news

Australian here. I love each and every one of my 4500 RKLB shares supporting this fine company and I am confident in its future because of the management led by Sir Peter Beck. Thanks for bringing this informative interview with Peter.

It’s Sir Peter Beck!

Always good to have Peter beck 🙃

RKLB!! Peter is great.

I’m not all the way through yet, but I hope you bring up PB,s beef with Transporter/Bandwagon.

I don't get why he's doing these interviews

Peter! Yo I’m so excited for this ❤

Starshield is the classified division for SpaceX which means many different satellites for the NRO that’s imaging with lasers to keep the imaging downloading constant and it means military communications for the military with the communication satellites. Starshield is a catch all for the different types of satellites SpaceX is either making for or operating for the government.

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What nobody mentioned and what is so obvious is if Artemis 3 is LEO SLS/Orion to starship HLS . Why not Dragon 2 to HLS and save $2 billion and why isn’t that architecture the most viable for all Moon missions. That way they could get 5 x more for the same money on the Moon

SpaceX is an extreme outlier. Failing to understand this simple fact is the reason so many people CONTINUE to be so wrong in their negative assessments & predictions of SpaceX. It's also the reason too many people predict an overly optimistic future for the space industry as a whole, precisely because they view SpaceX as merely the first of a new normal instead of properly recognizing them as an extreme outlier.

Great topic and great interview! What a pity this is not clear from the video’s title.

The innovation is crazy from spacex.