T+340: Starliner’s Future and the Demand Signal
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T+340: Starliner’s Future and the Demand Signal

B2中高级2026年9月29日33分钟

NASA and Boeing laid out Starliner’s return-to-flight plan as SpaceX prepares to leave Dragon behind. I talk through the weak demand signal for crewed flight in LEO, how NASA’s commitment to the ISS and commercial stations boxed themselves into this decision, and what to do between here and the Moon. This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 33 executive producers—Theo and Violet, Miles O’Brien, Joakim, Steve, Warren, Joel, Frank, Joonas, Natasha Tsakos, Will and Lars from Agile, David, Matt, Jan, Matt from Built, Lee, Josh from Impulse, Russell, Heiko, Kris, Ti...

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Hello and welcome to Mainage Cut-Off, I'm Anthony Colangelo, back with you after a bit of a hiatus here on the Main Feed, huh? Been on the Headlines Feed a couple of times in the last month, but I've not had a lot I wanted to jump on and talk about on the Main Feed, try to keep the signal to noise

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high. single has built up specifically with regards to Starliner its return to flight plans its new lease on life I guess some would say and the way that that storyline came together with Dragon and the reporting around dragon and then statements from SpaceX on dragon and its life after 2030.

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An interesting flurry of things that is all very intertwined with the ISS with commercial space stations, and I think in this shift from, you know, Leo to Cislunar space that we talk about all the time, the Moonbase project, all of this is really tied up together. And I don't know if I have every single thought ironed out on what I'm about to unveil for you in terms of the way

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