PRC: X-37B knock-off. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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PRC: X-37B knock-off. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/chinas-x-37b-releases-object-in-orbit/
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | is CBS High on the World. I'm John Bachelor to Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman |
| 0:10.0 | watching North Korea. |
| 0:12.0 | North Korea building a space board Bob has reported and now |
| 0:16.1 | Bob what is Cholima 1 what has happened good evening to you. |
| 0:19.7 | Cholima 1 is actually the was the second attempt, |
| 0:23.2 | but actually a third attempt by North Korea |
| 0:25.9 | to put a satellite into orbit with its own rocket. |
| 0:29.6 | The first time they launched this had failed, |
| 0:32.2 | the second time they launched it |
| 0:33.4 | launched it back in November it was a success. They got a spy satellite into |
| 0:37.6 | orbit that's what they claimed and they said they would continue to do so and as |
| 0:41.7 | you mentioned I've reporter on this they |
| 0:43.3 | have a space port they built on their western coast for the purposes of |
| 0:47.2 | launching a hospital or space satellites and so they tried early this week to launch the |
| 0:55.0 | the third time, Shalima 1 is the name of the rocket. |
| 0:59.0 | They had announced, they had notified Japan that the drop zones for the stages was going to be in the oceans |
| 1:09.6 | as it headed. They're going to launch it from that Western coastal seaport, but they're going to, it was going to |
| 1:14.6 | head east over North Korea and drop stages in the oceans, the China Sea, and near Japan Japan and the Philippines. |
| 1:25.0 | However, the first stage exploded right after launch very shortly after launch, so it was a complete failure. |
| 1:31.0 | Because of its path, flight path over North Korea, those, the debris |
| 1:38.8 | which includes toxic hypogolic fuels will dissolve your skin if you get it on you. |
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