T+156: Sean Mahoney, CEO of Masten Space Systems

Sean Mahoney, CEO of Masten Space Systems joins me to talk about everything they’ve been up to lately, from flights of their terrestrial vehicles out in Mojave, NASA’s Lunar CATALYST program, their recent Commercial Lunar Payload Services task order award, and some other projects like DARPA’s XS-1, the Broadsword engine, and XEUS.

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Topics

• Masten Space Systems
• Masten Space Systems (@mastenspace) / Twitter
• mastenspace - YouTube
• Whats the Point? — Masten Space Systems
• Lunar CATALYST | NASA
• XL-1 — Masten Space Systems
• NASA Awards Contract to Deliver Science, Tech to Moon | NASA
• Masten Space Systems Will Deliver NASA and Commercial Payloads to the Lunar Surface in 2022 — Masten Space Systems
• Masten Space Systems selected by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for XS-1 Program — Masten Space Systems
• Masten Achieves First Hot-Fire of Broadsword Rocket Engine — Masten Space Systems
• XEUS — Masten Space Systems

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