245 - Polar Bears and Penguins (with Jonathan Goff and Mike Loucks)
From Off-Nominal by Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo
June 12, 2026 · 1h 3m · Episode 249
About this episode
Jake and Anthony discuss orbital depots and trajectories to the Moon and Mars with Jonathan Goff and Mike Loucks.
Jake and Anthony are joined by Jonathan Goff, Director of Advanced Concepts at Gravitics, and Mike Loucks, CEO at SEE, to talk about where to put orbital depots, trajectories from there to the Moon and Mars, and to otherwise set the record straight on their papers after Anthony’s poorly-remembered-and-even-more-poorly-explained mention.
People in this episode
Hosts: Jake Robins, Anthony Colangelo
Guests: Jonathan Goff, Mike Loucks
Topics covered
- orbital depots
- Moon trajectories
- Mars trajectories
- space exploration
- advanced concepts
Keywords
- polar bears
- penguins
- orbital depots
- Moon
- Mars
- space
- advanced concepts
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Gravitics, SEE
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