
Main Engine Cut Off
Hosted by Anthony Colangelo · Anthony Colangelo
4.9from 628 ratings
- 343
- Episodes
- 67
- Transcribed
- 628
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Main Engine Cut Off
MECO is opinion and analysis of spaceflight, exploration, policy, and strategy, by Anthony Colangelo.
- Publisher
- Anthony Colangelo
- Category
- science · science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Apr 2016
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
67 of 343 episodes have a transcript.

30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
T+342: NASA Updates Artemis III and IV Plans, and the Big Feelings on the Falcon to Starship Transition

29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
T+341: The Launch Shortage, SpaceX Going Alone (with Caleb Henry)

29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
T+340: Starliner’s Future and the Demand Signal
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T+342: NASA Updates Artemis III and IV Plans, and the Big Feelings on the Falcon to Starship Transition
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There is a docking port that is there to be a hard dock point for Orion and nothing else. But The thing that NASA says they want to test out is the dynamics of Orion and Starship docked in that configuration because the Starship profile takes Orion all the way from Earth orbit to low lunar orbit. […]
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- Caleb Henry
- Andrew Jones
- Justin Fiaschetti
- Winnie Lai
- Matt Gjertsen
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 293 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 335 ratings
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- 92
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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