Boeing X-37: America's Secret Space Plane

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[bonesmalone]

My grandfather worked on the X-37b before he retired in 2015. I talked to him about his time working on it and apparently, even he has no idea what it's doing up there.

[Elementaro]

First we had the Blaze attitude bleeding into other channels, now we have the Blaze meme's, and I am loving it!

[davidajayi]

I love how he always decides if the video will do well in the beginning

[abk]

How about a mega projects on having dozens of YouTube channels?😉

[shabmaster]

Business Blaze is slowly infecting all of Simon's owned channels.

[deliriumguiness]

What I love with projects like this one (highly classified), is that some people who are watching vids like this, know exactly what's going on. They would think "Ha, if you only knew" to "Wow, they're point on".

[nachoar]

Simon: what could the X-37 be doing up there? China: What's going on with our satellites??

[KiithnarasAshaa]

3:45 Oh, yeah, the old NTO-UDMH mixture, always fun that stuff. (Di)Nitrogen Tetroxide is (almost) just what it sounds like - Two Nitrogen bound to each other and each bound to two oxygens. This is an _incredibly_ powerful oxidizer with loads of chemical potential and treacherously dancing on the very edge of stability. Unsymmetric Dimethyl Hydrazine is a form of Hydrazine (a very similar molecule to NTO, but with Hydrogens instead of Oxygens and far more stable) but with both Hydrogens that accompany one of the Nitrogens replaced with Methyl (like Methane, CH4) groups. This great imbalance in atomic mass makes the comparatively-tame Hydrazine way less stable and carry way more energy and violently react on contact with a wide host of chemicals. This readily-reactive nature is what is meant by Hypergolic - This will react and combust upon contact with no need for an external ignition source. Naturally, if you mix both NTO and UDMH, both hypergolic and unpleasant on their own, the resulting combustion is very rapid and reliable. It's useful for spacecraft because you just need a little of each to start the reaction going without having to worry about complex igniter systems, allowing for easy re-ignition of engines or thrusters that use these propellants.

[ignitionfrn]

1:50 - Chapter 1 - Boeing X37
4:30 - Chapter 2 - Development
5:45 - Chapter 3 - Testing the X37
7:35 - Chapter 4 - New variant X37B
9:10 - Chapter 5 - Flights
12:35 - Chapter 6 - What is it up to ?

[alexdoescars]

Wait. Were there always memes in Megaprojects? Is this the MegaBlaze? I love it

[ernestbywater]

While I won't rule out the X-37B being able to later deploy some sort of attack capability, I'd be extremely surprised if it didn't have some sort of preprogrammed routines for evasive manoeuvrers to escape being attacked by an adversary of some sort. This is because it's an Air Force asset and they'd want to make it hard to destroy, regardless of what it is or isn't doing up there.

[pakde]

"Probably gonna do well"
Ya think?
Viewed 150 thousand times in under 24 hours. Epic

[csbnm]

Few Good Men: "You can't handle the truth!"
US Space Force: "What he said."

[nickgarforth]

i'd love to see a video on the falcon 9 rocket by spacex, how they managed to get the booster to re-land safetly on the earth

[rickhobson]

Ok, the little bird plummeting was funny in context. "Woooo!"

[gregdeplace]

To be fair I'm here mainly for Simon's charisma, such a funny lad and I like learning a thing or two that I didn't know about the subject of the video :)

[IAmTheAce]

0:56 Space Force ‘brilliantly funny tv show’- yeah, sure, if you have the equivalent awareness of an infant with jangling keys

[ImKevan]

Damn, timing on this one ay, I already know its gonna be good, so, good video!

Edit: also seems to be some Blaze leaking into this video, i like it :D

[mikeygallos]

Always enjoy the Mega Projects random size comparisons :-)

[LtColShingSides]

I love it when a little bit of business Blaze leaks into the other channels