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The John Batchelor Show

#SPACEX: Test #4 in May. Guest: Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a CBSi on the world behind the black. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps behind the black watching SpaceX SpaceX

0:11.6

exploring and space engineering.

0:13.8

We begin with engineering because ULA, a company that I thought was for sale, has completed a Delta

0:21.3

4 heavy launch. Bob provides a photograph. It looks very impressive.

0:26.0

Bob, why do we need this launcher? What is it for? Good evening to him.

0:29.0

We don't need it anymore. John doesn't exist anymore. This is this very last lock.

0:33.2

You're a very impressive rocket until the not going to have

0:37.2

it came along.

0:37.8

It was the most powerful rocket piece in the United States.

0:40.6

I think it is a very impressive rocket, but it's also extremely expensive and cumbersome.

0:46.4

And so United Launch Alliance had this rocket, and it's a family of rockets, depending on how you

0:52.1

configure it, you can have different kinds of

0:53.8

delta fours. This is the most powerful version of the heavy.

0:57.6

And so ULA had this rocket and had the Atlas Five rocket.

1:01.6

And it was it's been in the process for the last few years

1:04.5

retiring both of those rockets to replace it with their Falcon Cento rocket

1:08.8

their Vulcan Cento rocket. They launched the new rocket once.

1:14.8

They have now retired, the Delta Four Heavy,

1:17.2

is Delta Four entirely, the whole family.

1:19.2

But this is the last launch, they put up a national reconnaissance of surveillance satellite

1:25.7

which is what mostly it was used for but it did many other things over the

1:31.0

history it was a very successful rocket. Delta

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