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NASA: DAMAGED CYGNUS. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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NASA: DAMAGED CYGNUS. BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
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0:00.0

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0:24.9

forward slash business to speak to the team. I'm John Bastra. I welcome Bob Zimmerman.

0:32.4

He keeps the website behind the black. We're going space exploring, but first we've got to do the engineering.

0:38.3

Bob, a very good evening to you.

0:40.3

Vulcan, what is it, and why does Space Force breathing a sigh of relief?

0:45.3

Good evening to you.

0:46.3

Good evening, John. Vulcan is the new rocket that ULA has been developing now for about a decade.

0:55.0

And it completed its first two launches last year successfully.

1:00.0

And the Space Force, the military, required two successful launches

1:04.0

before it would certify the Vulcan

1:07.0

for commercial military launches.

1:10.0

Unfortunately, the second launch, one of the side boosters, the nozzle fell off.

1:16.6

Now the rocket was able to get the payload into the correct orbit, but having a nozzle fall off a solid fuel booster is not considered to be a good thing.

1:26.6

And so they delayed certification, even though they had completed two successful missions

1:31.5

as per plan, that nozzle falling off caused the military to take a breath.

1:40.1

And they spent the last six months that launch was less in the fall.

1:43.9

So they spent the last six months doing a lot of testing and analysis to try to see,

1:48.0

to figure out what the problem was.

1:50.0

This is ULA, and ULA has figured out the problem and fixed it.

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