SPACEX: Nearly complete mobile phone constellation. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 2 November 2024
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SPACEX: Nearly complete mobile phone constellation. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm John Batchezer. |
| 0:07.7 | Bob Zimmerman, he keeps the website behind the black. |
| 0:10.4 | Tucson. |
| 0:11.2 | We're going to the Fandom Space Facility. |
| 0:13.8 | Bob, what is that? |
| 0:14.7 | Good evening to you. |
| 0:15.8 | Good evening, John. |
| 0:17.0 | Phantom is a rocket startup, founded by a guy named Jim Contrell, who had been the CEO of another rocket startup vector that went belly up, unfortunately. |
| 0:28.6 | But Cantrell didn't give up, so he put together another company, Phantom, and I've reported on them in the past. |
| 0:34.6 | They're a startup. They haven't flown anything yet, though they, you know, have possibilities. |
| 0:42.0 | But he gave me a tour about three years ago, and so he invited me to come back, and he |
| 0:46.7 | was going to have an event at his place for his workers, in a sense, because Apollo 16, astronaut Charles Duke has agreed to be an advisor for the company. |
| 0:57.7 | And so he was going to visit the company for the first time. |
| 1:00.0 | So Jim Cantrell put together a little event for his employees, and he invited me to go as well. |
| 1:05.2 | We got to hear Charlie Duke talk about his Apollo 16 mission in his life. |
| 1:12.7 | As usually, he's an astronaut. He's very not chalant about things. He, him and John Young on their rover, drove up the slope of |
| 1:18.8 | Stone Mountain, reaching an elevation of 500 feet, which is the highest any human |
| 1:23.3 | has ever been on the lunar surface. And I asked him, you know, that's pretty remote from all humanity. |
| 1:29.1 | And he just laughed. |
| 1:30.3 | We felt at home there. |
| 1:31.3 | They had done so many simulations and studying of the terrain beforehand that from the very |
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