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SpaceX: Launching X-37B. Bob Zimmerman BehindTheBlack.com

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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SpaceX: Launching X-37B. Bob Zimmerman BehindTheBlack.com
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0:00.0

This is CBS on the world. I'm John Batchel. Behind the Black. Bob Zimmerman is here.

0:06.9

SpaceX, busy. BALcAN 9, busy, Bob. A very good evening to you. Ordinarily, we just don't cover SpaceX that attended.

0:16.2

We don't attend that much because it's routine, launching the constellation of Starlink. But this is

0:21.6

different. Space Force has a contract with SpaceX to launch our famous old friend. What is X-37B, Bob?

0:30.1

Yes, so the SpaceX this week, of one of its many launches this week, one of them was to launch

0:37.4

the X-37B for the Space Force.

0:39.9

The X37B is a mini reusable shuttle.

0:43.1

The Space Force has a fleet of two, which they have launched a total of eight times now.

0:48.5

This is the eighth launch.

0:50.2

These mini shuttles go up, and they have been in space anywhere from a few months to several years on each mission.

0:59.3

They have a cargo bay.

1:01.1

It's about the size of a pick of a pickup truck, the mini shuttle.

1:04.8

But it comes back down, lands on a runway, and can be refurbished and launched again.

1:09.7

It's built by Boeing, one of the few Boeing projects

1:12.2

in recent years that has been very successful. They use this for military space research and

1:19.6

maybe reconnaissance research. You know, you can send something up there for a period of time

1:23.5

to see how it functions in space. And then you bring it back and you look at it.

1:27.8

You see what has happened to it, and that helps you learn how to build new things.

1:32.3

You can also use it for other kinds of reconnaissance in space equipment.

1:36.1

And this flight has got other experiments on if they've actually told us about.

1:41.1

Some have to do with communications work and sensors for controlling spacecraft.

1:48.0

But it's up there and it's now going to be up there for we don't know how long.

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