#SPACE FORCE: SMART UNIFORMS. . BOB ZIMMERMAN BEHINDTHEBLACK.COM
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.6 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:35.8 | This is CBS, I on the World. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm John Baster. |
| 0:39.9 | Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website behind the black, |
| 0:45.4 | and he's here for the Space Forces news, lots of news. Bob, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:49.9 | Contracts being awarded in all directions. To do what? Good evening to you. |
| 0:56.9 | Good evening, John. The Space Force, the military, has a program whereby they certify launch companies to launch payloads for the Space Force. They got a variety of programs within |
| 1:05.1 | that, high-risk missions, low-risk missions, et cetera. And once they've certified them, |
| 1:10.4 | they then announce how they're going to approximately |
| 1:14.3 | distribute the launches over the next decade. |
| 1:17.2 | These are not actual launches, but this is an approximate breakup of the launches coming. |
| 1:22.5 | And so the Space Force announced this week that it is awarded a combined $13.7 billion in launch contracts |
| 1:30.8 | to the certified company, SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin. |
| 1:35.5 | These are to do what they call low-risk missions, the ones that must launch. |
| 1:40.9 | They want very reliable launch capability. |
| 1:44.7 | A majority of the launches attentively will go to SpaceX with ULA getting the next batch |
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