Boeing X-37: America's Secret Space Plane
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I love how he always decides if the video will do well in the beginning
I like to guess :D
And he was right! Already viewed 150k times. Amazing.
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I don't understand?
@@archstanton6102 It's a reference to one of Simon's other channels, Business Blaze, where he just goes off the rails and the editor adds in a lot of "vintage memes"
If you were just quoting the meme, then lol 😂😂😂
@@Elementaro17 That is why it was the perfect answer
No one has ever accused me of being the quickest car at the track 🤣😂
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.
... That he's allowed to say 🤣🤐
That is how secret projects are kept secret. They assign work to people in tiny bits. Enough to get the work done, but not enough to know what it is about. A small and easy to understand example: I ask you to make a spool of thread. You make the spool of thread but you have no idea what I am going to use it for. I ask someone else to make panels of cloth. They make the cloth but have no idea what it is used for. I ask someone to make some foam. They make the foam but have no idea what it is used for. I ask someone to make some springs. They have no idea what I am going to use them for. I then receive all of the things that were made and assemble... a chair cushion. And while a chair cushion is nothing worth mentioning, the process by which I made it in this example is exactly what your grandfather did. He made a single piece of a larger puzzle.
@@danielduncan6806 Yeah, I just thought it was a bit strange since he was the head of choosing materials for it, so it would seem logical that he would know what it's doing.
@@bonesmalone5802 Maybe he'll be forced to kill you once he told you the truth..
But seriously, @Daniel Duncan's explanation seems far more plausible than mine. Compartmentalization in developement appears to be more a rule than an exception with secret projects like this.
Probably worked as a spy satellite, since the biggest downfall of spy satellites is that people can predict their orbit. Since the x37 was known to change the shape of its orbit pretty significantly, it can do things that most spy satellites can't. It's a big plane with tons of room though so it's easy to do a bunch of other things at the same time to maintain your cover
Business Blaze is slowly infecting all of Simon's owned channels.
This is not a bad thing :)
"ALLEGEDLY" and I'm here for it
It does pay all the bills, and it brings viewers.
the crossover episode I've been waiting for
Its the power of the beard. The longer and bushier it gets the more the Blaze takes over
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".
Correct.
I worked on it. It's Aliens
It's just the latest spy plane. Also some experimental stuff.
@@DouglasLippi from someone who worked on it, they told me it is a failure and remains classified to avoid embarassment. Apparently it doesn't do what it was intended to, or perhaps it does but is really shitty. The "guy" wrked for Lockheed Martin, contributed to the Hubble, and had projects with phantom works. He was my former scout master. Ran in to him the other wee after having not seen him in a decade, sold him a bicycle rack and chatted about sciencew stuff
They wouldn't dare to use that thing to just steal some satellites out of the sky. Would they? Just lucid dreams again. Good stuff.
Simon: what could the X-37 be doing up there? China: What's going on with our satellites??
I 100% believe it's capable of intercepting imagery from, eavesdropping on and possibly electronic warfare on enemy satellites! I can't think of any better idea and if the "Space Force" or DOD, NRO and Geospatial Intelligence Agency or NSA hasn't thought of that yet, well they are stupid. I highly doubt those individuals are stupid, so they obviously thought of the possibilities of such a vehicle equipped with similar technology we already implement in electronic warfare planes, SIGINT, ELINT and whatever else that is deployed on earth, on satellites, etc., and put it int the X-37B!
US space technology is a joke. The Chinese are already eating our lunch and light years ahead of US space tech. They have already stolen the plans for the X37 and they have nothing to worry about.
@@patdohrety2940 not doubting you, but your source?
@@silentdagger1166 China just landed an advanced rover on Mars. All they need to do is steal our tech, which is extremely easy to accomplish
@@patdohrety2940 not really, China is still years behind the US and more importantly Russia. If anything challenges the US in space, it's the might and tech of Russia, as they're leading in several fields of propulsion and rocket science. This is also the sort of tech they don't share with partners like for example India or China, as Russia clearly wants to keep that edge.
As of know, the US and Russia still are the only big players. With countries like China, South Korea, Japan, India and the EU playing catch up.
How about a mega projects on having dozens of TH-cam channels?😉
Hit right in the feels.
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.
We called it Satan Fuel in class
Thanks! I was going to provide approximately the same info., but figured that someone else had already done it.
I had a cocktail named that once.
Hypergolic fuels are awesome. Dangerous, but extremely useful.
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 ?
Thank you
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.
Wait. Were there always memes in Megaprojects? Is this the MegaBlaze? I love it
I call this megablaze, also sideblaze. Both have a bit of our boi with the blaze personalities creeping in. ;) LOVE IT.
Business Blaze slow takeover every other channel cannot be stopped
The blaze is slowly creeping in. MegaBlaze, SideBlaze.... GeoBlaze is gong to be interesting.
@@mnichols1979 BioBlaze? Top Blazes?
@@mnichols1979 Also CriminalBlaze/CasualBlaze
The cult of blaze is growing stronger
I don't understand
I don't understand, b!tch
The Blaze comes for us all... allegedly.
Smash that dislike button
Civilian pukes and your adorable speculations.
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 :)
Ok, the little bird plummeting was funny in context. "Woooo!"
“Well, WE’RE NOT GONNA TELL YOU MORE!”
i love this guy and his shows.. i hope more are like him
"Probably gonna do well"
Ya think?
Viewed 150 thousand times in under 24 hours. Epic
Few Good Men: "You can't handle the truth!"
US Space Force: "What he said."
I love it when a little bit of business Blaze leaks into the other channels
Thank you.... Always....great flow of information
Excellent stuff dude
Always enjoy the Mega Projects random size comparisons :-)
“It’s probably just spying” lol
Since it's almost impossible to overestimate the value of spying on everyone else (which is what our country is good at), that's probably 99% of what it was doing in space.
@@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts Everyone else? Or just plain Everyone?
Getting everybody's license plate number.
This is one of my top 5 favorite channels. No ranking of the 5. They are equally excellent and interesting. As long as you are rolling out new videos I'll be watching. 👍👍
0:56 Space Force ‘brilliantly funny tv show’- yeah, sure, if you have the equivalent awareness of an infant with jangling keys
I don't understand what happened but I had a momentary flash to Business Blaze in the middle of this
the editing makes these videos more engaging well done
Awesome topic. I fully geeked out on it. Thankyouverymuch!
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
There’s a documentary on Netflix about Elon (space x) and nasa sending the falcon to the space station
Space X based their work on the DC-X built by McDonnell Douglas in the ‘90s. Elon Musk even said, “Just continuing the great work of the DC-X project!” JAXA also had the RVT-9, which was incredibly stable. You can watch of video of that takeoff and landing here on TH-cam. It’s a 16-year old video too! The Russians worked on one or are working on one. Chrysler, of all companies was commissioned by NASA to build a RVT or reusable vehicle in the late ‘60s. It was called SERV, (Single-stage Earth-orbital Reusable Vehicle), which was going to be part of the Space Shuttle program, but I believe President Nixon cut the program. Blue Origin’s New Shepard is based of the Chrysler design. Lots of good history when it comes to RVs.
You can tell looking at it that it is one of those space planes that says “oops sorry” every time it farts by looking at its butt. It’s ashamed of it’s thruster.
“Wooops sorry, I had a big lunch, so embarrassing 😳 “
Heck yeah, this is the most intriguing space program! Glad you are covering this.
Was going to comment about some Blaze showing more and more in your other channels but I see I've been beaten to it. Love it!
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
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 Right I don't know why that meme is so particularly enjoyable but it makes me happy every time
This was really delightful, Thank You! Good job on pronouncing that engine lol.
give a raise to whoever edited what happens at 3:40
omg I died XD
I’d never heard of this so I really enjoyed it!
I was just reading about this and this video was uploaded.
Go simon!
Brilliant explanation, Sir!
I love all your channels! All your vids are good - but the aircraft ones are best!
Imagine being an engineer who helped design components on the X37. And imagine that engineer stumbling upon this video and recognizing a couple of those components he designed. And then imagine that engineer hearing Simon Whistler say, "and that's all we know about it", but HE knows a HELL of lot more.
Imagine that. 😁
I’m guessing that engineer is you. 😂
When can you talk about it?
You'd be kind of disappointed -- when the X-37B was designed, it wasn't classified. It was a fully unclassified NASA project. And then it got cancelled. Weird but true: X-37 itself is not classified. What it carries in its payload bay, and what else might be riding up on its payload adapter, well, now that's a different story.
92' Oldsmobile silhouette coming in for a landing.
Fucking mint
These (known) experiments are actually really cool!
Hell yes on the content keep it up blaze
‘It’s probably just spying’ is definitely probably the right answer.
Military ain't about specifics. Military's all about generals.
Great video!!!
Yay, I think I (among others I'm sure) suggested this a while back so I'm happy it's here. Fascinating aircraft/spacecraft.
sadly, the reason not much is known about it is because it's a pretty shitty spacecraft. From someone who worked for lockheed martin and had been contracted for work with phantom works disclosed to me that the x-37 remains classified to avoid embarassment about it's abilities while chuckling
@@Jakeafer uh-huh, because they'd totally keep it flying for as often and long as they do if that's the case
If I had a radio controlled plane as stellar as that, I'd keep it up for 2 years only because it sounds amazing!!!
The feisty offspring of the space shuttle is prepared to fight things, adorable.
I'm still sad that the Space-Shuttle or to better say it the Orbiter didn't have a bomber variant.
@@DefinitelyNotEmma Im sure it had a poop dropper, close enough
@Alex Rossouw
The X-37B is NOT a space plane. Since it is unmanned, it is merely a space DRONE. I wish people would get that straight. But then, NASA has been full of hype ever since its inception.
@@spaceman081447 I never said it was..
Wonderful video! Would love to see the Mississippi River Basin Model
I love seeing Simon geek out over the same things I do.
A-10 warthog video please!
Bet they're just carrying tardigrades as space tourists.
Simon's channels (and Danny's scripts from the basement) have helped this last year+. ❤
Awesome mate!
Well since its on here I don't think it qualifies to be secret anymore? Just kidding. The real secret is how many channels does Simon have?
12 if I counted right
Or 11
We dont ask those questions...
@@danielladwein2570 Biographics, Geographics, TIFO, TopTenz, Mega Projects, Side Projects, BB, CC, XPLRD, he used to do VisualPolitik, but doesn't anymore, what am I missing?
Oh yeah Highlight History...so that's 10, 11 if you count VP.
@@QBCPerdition yeah 10 (TIFO, BIOG, GEOG, MEGAP, SIDEP, CC, BB:), XPLRD, HH, TOPTENZ) and 2 abundant channels- VisualPolitikEN, and Simon Whistler (however the last one only has only 1 video(it was actually his channel))
So 10+ 2 (kinda)
I was at Edward's on 7 April 2006 and watched it run off the end of the runway.The chase plane was a Beechcraft Starship, another unusual and rare aircrafts
You're thinking of Dream Chaser. The aerodynamic test article had a landing gear failure, which caused it to veer off the centerline after touchdown.
@calliarcale I don't think so, from what I've read that aircraft was launched from a helicopter. The incident I witnessed had the aircraft launched from Burt Rutans White Knight, the same aircraft that launched spaceship one. The chase plane was a beechcraft starship which was pretty cool to see itself
The Boy with the Blaze coming with that fire. Allegedly. 😉
I never knew. Excellent!
Hey uh Simon? I hate to be that guy but the rocket you showed at 2:32 was not an Atlas V 501. That was either an Atlas V 531, Atlas V 541, or Atlas V 551. The Atlas V designation system works out that the first number designates the fairing size, either 4 for the 4 meter fairing, 5 for the 5 meter fairing, or N for no fairing (used on Boeing Starliner). The second number refers to the number of strap on solid rocket motors, with the options being 0-3 motors for the 4 meter fairing, or 0-5 boosters for the 5 meter fairing (Unknown potential number of boosters for the Starliner configuration as the only option we have seen was the 2 boosters used on the Starliner Demo 1 launch). The 3rd number refers to the number of RL-10 engines on the Centaur 2nd stage, either 1 or 2 for either a single or dual engine stage, respectively. It should be noted for the final number that the only Atlas V to fly with 2 engines on the 2nd stage as of writing this comment was the Atlas V N22 used on Boeing Starliner
#Legend
Video about creating super-acids, or super-bases?
8:38 I think that may have been written by the same people who wrote something that we all had to remember back in the cold war: "We were on a training mission to the North Atlantic for the purpose of demonstrating the ship's ability to operate unsupported for an extended period of time." That may not be exact, it was 30 years ago and I could not find an actual quote. It was the "unclassified word" that we were to use in the event of capture. So if it helps, yes; whatever we were doing was very boring.
Simon is such a genius to be an expert on all of these topics. How do you do it Simon?
Did the meme boi allegedly edit this?
I mean.. Simon does already have Danny and Sam locked in his basement... He's gotta keep them busy some how so they don't try and escape....
It's amazing to see what started with basic rockets in germany in the 40s evolved into tech like this. Truly a great time to be alive.
Hate to break it to you but the germans based their work on rockets on American rocket designs from the late 1920s.
Business Blaze is making its way into every other series. YES
Good video 👍
Maybe soon there will a Russian version of it and photos of the x37 will appear on the Kremlin twitter page lol.
Chinese* They like to copy everything.
@@erwina4738 Very true 👍😂
Then it could be named Y-72z
@@erwina4738 Lol, they already have one now that you mention it
It's a secret. LOL
I like how you were impressed about the speed ..... that's just the speed that ANY spacecraft in low earth orbit is going and needs to cope with upon re-entry. When Starship does it - a 50m long craft - THAT will be amazing and much more mind-blowing!!!!
Yes very true :)
I love the fact that you categorized the aircraft. Will you be doing the same thing with all your other videos. It would make it easier to watch what tickles my fancy or interest.
Interesting video mate, thank you!!
I still love hearing the "Space Force" thing, it doesn't sound real at all, more like a film!!
Can you please do "rods from God"?!
I would link this to Mars missions due to the length of time it was 'dormant' in orbit being similar to the duration of a there and back trip. But the secrecy casts a long shadow over everything.
Hi there, Simon. A suggestion for a video(or short series) for Megaprojects. Since you(and us) are so much into aviation, how about doing something on the early history of aviation? Without the experimentation, and sacrifices, of the early pioneers, we wouldn't have such great aircraft today. From the early balloonists, gliders and powered flyers of the day, there's a lot to be talked about. ;)
Thank you
I have a "real" mega project idea.
Canada's Confederation Bridge. Longest bridge in canada, and the largest bridge over a body of water that freezes solid.
It's massive. What do you all think? worth a vote up?
i watched an old video the other day that had Simon without a beard and to be honest i still havent recovered
I think he explains in a vid somewhere his wife made him do it for family portraits with their baby.
Simon -- have you created a video about the Avro Lancaster heavy bomber? Thank you, Simon, for this informative video.
Realy I like this video its so so interestyng
You let Sam use the internet for 1 hour and this is what happens.
We just gonna ignore that the crew is wearing hazmat suits
Yeah I had the same thought
Aw civilian pukes so, so clueless.
You can discuss “hazmat” (adorable term) those in the know see technicians servicing a multi-mission that utilizes Hydrazine a Hypergolic fuel with oxidizing properties requiring an advanced self contained atmospheric protective ensemble.
But ya, civilians… go watch some ancient aliens ;)
1.41 intentions honorable.....Boeing??
Doubtful, great video Simon
Cool spaceship! 👍
Am I the only one that has a echo inside my head when I hear SPAAAACE FOOOOOORCE!
The White House would be an awesome topic.
I heard it was painted the white colour after it was burned in 1812, as a anti retardant
Simon Whistler, the only man to enjoy "Space Force"
Also as a Space Nerd, maybe Simon should look to Scott Manley for Super Project ideas. Hypergolics are a common discussion theme. Extremely hazardous to humans, hence the hazmat suits in the pictures used in your own video ;)
6:09!! The bird. That CRACKED me up!!🤡
plot twist: it was actually used to send Amazon packages around the world.
Bringing the Blaze to the Megas.😎🔥
I love how Business Blaze is seeping through to Simon's other channels
Watching Simon Blaze slowly infect Simon Tenz, Simon Grahps and Simon Projects is simply glorious...the basement must be cramped by now.
I saw this thing launch off the pad back in 2015, also the assembly area for the X37b was not not pointed out during a bus tour around Kennedy Space Center's assembly areas
was great even with the missing bits you said
Yes
Do one in the iron dome defense system!!!
You need to do a video on the iron dome please
Memes on Megaprojects? I love it🤣🤣
Mmaaaaannnnn that beard is growing in good!
I once found it on the Sky Guide app. Was pretty interesting
Yes just a sprinkle of blaze in everything!