#Germany #France; #Italy: : Booster startup. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 8 June 2023
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#Germany #France; #Italy: : Booster startup. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/france-germany-and-italy-agree-on-allowing-competition-from-european-rocket-startups/
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| 0:00.0 | this is cbs island world i'm john bachelor from the surface of the planet earth we go to a lower |
| 0:04.8 | earth orbit with space x this is a bus route this is an ordinary bus route bob zirma |
| 0:10.8 | minutes here he keeps the website behind the black we're celebrating space x one more time |
| 0:16.0 | because it's so ordinary bob what did they achieve good evening to good evening john uh... you |
| 0:21.7 | mentioned a very bus service and that's one of the two things they accomplish best weekend among |
| 0:27.2 | many of the things they accomplish best weekend but uh... they they launched another cargo |
| 0:32.0 | drag into iss that cargo capsules making its fourth flight the first stage complied |
| 0:37.5 | of the falcon nine rocket completed its fifth flight landing at successfully on a |
| 0:41.2 | drum trip in the event which is they are i think it was 197th time they've landed |
| 0:46.6 | that first stage you know something that within possible and could be done it wasn't |
| 0:50.0 | practical according to every engineer and manager in the rocket industry from |
| 0:54.7 | nineteen seventy through uh... two thousand and fifteen um... and they are what you call the uh... |
| 1:02.0 | i think they were uh... and they they can't put seven thousand pounds of supplies to iss |
| 1:07.2 | including solar as five ss they also this best weekend launched also launched |
| 1:12.4 | uh... uh... a falcon nine rocket carrying twenty two second generation starling satellites to orbit |
| 1:18.9 | uh... that that launch uh... well let me see uh... make sure i get the numbers right here |
| 1:26.2 | uh... is the first stage on that uh... was making it second flight um... i'm sorry third flight the two |
| 1:33.1 | three has completed their six the ninth flights of uh... could be successfully all all we've been told |
| 1:38.2 | for half a century was impossible um... uh... the point is the space x is basically making ordinary |
| 1:46.1 | was considered impossible just a decade less than a decade ago uh... and they're doing it because |
| 1:51.2 | they didn't uh... except accepted wisdom they'd use their brains and said let's do things |
| 1:56.9 | right now space x by itself needs the world the rest of the world in launches uh... thirty eight to thirty |
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