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 Iain: there were a stupid amount of contracts). then to top it all off we cover IAC as well as some other miscellaneous news.

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Max-Q: The Podcast is a Max-Q News production, owned by KaiDem Group LLC. Any views expressed in this podcast are not necessarily that of either Max-Q News or our parent company and should not be interpreted as such unless expressly stated.

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 Helene & Starlink (which, cool note to add, since we've recorded, Starlink and T-Mobile have officially activated Satellite Texting Beta for the impacted areas!!!!)
• Voyager 2 shuts down another scientific instrument to save power
• Voting from the Space Station
• and one very, very noisy alarm that went off at 5 AM for the entire state of Texas. Oopsies.

All this, on this week's Max-Q: The Podcast!

Our links: Max-Q News website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://max-q-news.space⁠⁠ Max-Q News X (formerly Twitter): ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MaxQ_production⁠⁠ Max-Q News Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/JTgxuvjY7e⁠

Other links:

Scott Manley's Magical Video on the Vulcan Anomaly

The American Red Cross

Beloved Asheville

Helene Aid (this site is more of a general donation hub for areas across the region -- if you want to help specific cities like Asheville, look for local donation links.)

Legalese:

Max-Q: The Podcast is a Max-Q News production, owned by KaiDem Group LLC. Any views expressed in this podcast are not necessarily that of either Max-Q News or our parent company and should not be interpreted as such unless expressly stated.

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 Redundant makes a return
• and more, only to be found here on the Max-Q Podcast!

Oh yeah, and we also discuss some recent back-end changes to the business -- we're officially incorporated! (mostly.)

Our Links - Join and Interact with our Crew: Max-Q News website: ⁠⁠⁠https://max-q-news.space⁠ Max-Q News X (formerly Twitter): ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MaxQ_production⁠ Max-Q News Discord: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/JTgxuvjY7e⁠