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The John Batchelor Show

#ISS: Dream Chaser to LEO. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a series

0:05.0

a series of the world behind the black.

0:07.0

Happy birthday Bob Zimmerman behind the black.

0:10.0

Commercial space and big space.

0:12.0

We go now to commercial Space, Sierra Space, Tenacity.

0:17.0

This is the Dream Chaser, waiting, waiting for a really cool name all these years to fly.

0:23.0

Bob, your subscription and donations are most welcome to understand the fate of Dream Taster.

0:29.6

What is Tenacity? Tenacity is the name of the first Sierra

0:36.3

Space Dream Chaser vehicle.

0:39.0

Zoom Chaser is the category name for their reusable small mini shuttle fleet that they hope to build.

0:45.6

And Tenasi is the first one and it's a cargo vehicle to bring supplies up and down to

0:50.1

ISS.

0:51.1

They have a contract with NASA for this. They've had this contract for many years. to this

0:53.0

they've had this contract for many years.

0:54.0

They have really years behind schedule.

0:56.0

They got this contract like in 617.

0:58.0

We're talking decades behind Bob.

1:00.0

I remember.

1:01.0

Well, no, I wouldn't say decades, but at least four years behind schedule. behind testing of the vehicle prior to launch and I'm hoping to get it launched sometime in the first half of this year.

1:17.0

Tenacity has been, they've given it the vibration tests already, which is to see if it can survive launch.

1:25.7

They have not released any results, but based upon the fact that they've moved on to the

1:29.4

environmental testing suggests everything went well.

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