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Quest to Space
The podcast for people building space. Conversations with the engineers and scientists actually building hardware — what they got wrong, what it cost them, and what they would do differently.
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S01E02TRL 5 to 7 Without Waiting for a Rocket — Jason Krueger
Jason Krueger, StratoStar Systems LLC
A thermal vac chamber can't test your radio, and a radio test can't change the temperature. Jason Krueger explains what a near-space flight test gives an engineering team that no chamber can, and why TRL 5 to 7 is where StratoStar lifts.
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S01E0224:11TRL 5 to 7 Without Waiting for a Rocket — Jason Krueger
Jason Krueger, StratoStar Systems LLC
A thermal vac chamber can't test your radio, and a radio test can't change the temperature. Jason Krueger explains what a near-space flight test gives an engineering team that no chamber can, and why TRL 5 to 7 is where StratoStar lifts.
- Qualification
- Thermal
- Avionics
S01E0118:02Training 30 Shuttle Engineers at NASA Kennedy — Jason Krueger
Jason Krueger, StratoStar Systems LLC
In 2011, NASA called StratoStar's office phone and Jason Krueger assumed someone was messing with him. Not long after, he was at NASA Kennedy teaching 30 shuttle engineers to build, fly, and recover hardware at the edge of space.
- CubeSat
- Qualification
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Real procedures, real failures, real numbers. We skip the press release and get to the part you can use on Monday.
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We talk shop at the level you actually work — no dumbing down, no hype. Engineers and scientists, on the record.
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Every team thinks they're the only one behind. The show is proof that someone else is going through the same crazy journey.