Everything We Know About The US Air Force's Secret Space Plane - The X-37B 

I bet the mystery goo felt at home

Testing nuclear bombs in space *-3 strength* *-50 lockpick* ( *you are now hated in the town of megaton* )

@@bigshrimp6458 what do you mean your internet cryptic comment doesn't make any sense what are you talking about buddy ? .

@@destinyangel5 Fallout reference

It’s fallout..... You should play it.

Space Explorer yo dawg, I heard you like space planes, so I put a space plane in your space plane.

Space Arsenal Bird

"Congratulations Ms. Shuttle, it's an X-37B"

Space.... Aircraft Carrier?

@@EnglisherThanThou "Ohh, It has it's mother-ship's... windows" :)

Feels like we should pay for it, the quality is so awesome. Everyday Astronaut is another outstanding channel! More long form (hour long ballpark) videos but all the detail, graphics, comparisons, etc that you could ever want.

@@MattH-wg7ou you cannot compare everyday astronaut to Scott... EA is a very media-centered and boring kid, while Scott has always been at the point, smart, quick without bloating the message. Honestly, there is no way you can compare the two

@@cokeforever "well, thats just like...your opinion man." I can like two things. You dont have to crap on someone else or their preferences.

@@MattH-wg7ou sure, every single comment on yt is somebody's oppinion... ) captn obvious)

@@cokeforever its a quote from the Big Lebowski dude chill

why the quotes? You don't have a clue what they are for, do you?

@@volgawolfhounds741 I guess the first pair of quotes is because it is a.. well.. quote of what Scott said in the video, and the second pair of quotes is because it's direct speech? But I'm not a native speaker, so not completely sure. The quotes don't seem wrong to me.

Fulmenify I am a native anglophone and the quotes are used correctly

He had to fill his quota

@@volgawolfhounds741 Do you? Quotes, as the name implies, are to enclose quotations, as Alone spirit did.

At least we know you're still alive

"Mostly dead."

@@RedLP5000S Okay, Miracle Max.

That was your wife farting, but she didn't want to admit it. But that was a pretty creative story...

Did you have to change your sheets?

This is FBI. Be careful what you say son.

Let’s get to the point here. How much?

Switching to the toxic fuel seems like a terrible idea! But I do really like that they kept working on shuttles !

​@@patrickday4206 These fuels are necessary for spacecraft that need to stay in orbit for a long time (like the Soyuz or the Space Shuttle's OMS). This is because Liquid Oxygen is cryogenic, wich means that it evaporates over time.

@@davisdf3064 means that it evaporates over time? I've had compressed oxygen in bottles for years? Are you referring to hydrogen?

Yeah, I noticed it too. Looks very odd. Shows it not having any real support for any weight, wheels were wobbling just before touchdown.

Probably a very simple system to reduce weight and faults.

Gravity dropped gear that uses springs and dampers hence the bouncing motion

It was most likely just prototype made just for that test.

Landing gear

I like those things though lol

@@johnballs1352 yikes

Naah, Just install some spy stuff on somebody's satellite 🏴☠️

Have you been watching old James Bond movies?

@@donjones4719 i wouldn't _rule out_ the possibility that America has developed "capture and recover" capability. it's not at all likely imo that that's what this mission was, but again, i wouldn't rule it out..

Maybe, definitely some kind of snooping around.

Superbun Wouldn’t that be more of a DoD thing? Doesn’t CIA deal with various forms of intelligence gathering and other non military threats?

If the CIA got involved that would be stranger things because they are prohibited from operations on American soil. On the other hand you might see three black SUVs from the FBI and USAF intelligence and the Defence Intelligence Agency very interested in hanging around your hou............................

indeed you mean the FBI would like to know your location. of course im not going to say the CIA has never operated on USA soil (though im sure they would say that) but the FBI is supposed to take the lead in all "CIA" like activities that would be carried out on USA soil.

Why do you think there is a "power outage" in that basement disguised as a living room? :P

Silly goose, CIA is international drug trade enforcement (Cocaine Import Agency) the NSA doesn't exist (No Such Agency) the agency you're thinking of is Homeland Se,,,,,,

Scott left out one key 'Everything We Know': the X37b is man-rated. It has been shown furthermore on at least one aerospace website that it could also be man-carrying. There is no cockpit, but the bay and mass capacity would allow a sealed capsule for one person, with about the same comfortability factor somewhere between the old Mercury and the Gemini capsules. A laptop and cable would provide everything necessary for control. The question then becomes, has this happened; or what would be the point?

@@-danR That was the X37-C which was about 33% bigger, it never went further than a paper proposing it.

@@scottmanley I think we're talking about two intersecting things. The X-37c as it was designed could be easily manned, and able to carry a whopping 6 passengers. The current version could be manned, with a single crew member. The 'man-rating' of the b-version consists of its 1.5g acceleration rating. It has such a _reliability_ record that I would class it as 'mannable', by such manly men (or women) who might venture to 'pilot' the thing. It's been years since I read that article, some aerospace publication in good standing, or I'd have better details.

He was bored

Gotta pay the bills when they come back on hehe

Not the dreaded carbon-carbon? Mother Gaea!

The carbon is carbonier than before!

Carbon fiber held in a carbonized phenolic matrix instead of epoxy matrix

It really is

Just wait till they use carbon carbon carbon!

Agreed. I can't wrap my head around any benefit to doing that. Obviously there IS one, but it's beyond me.

@@erfquake1 The video explains it. The main engine is offset to make room to test other engines. 10:08

Yep! Can't say I've done that in particular, but I like to say that the main way KSP is unrealistic is that someone put me in charge!

Gotta ask- what is "ksp"...?

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 A video game about building rockets called Kerbal Space Program

@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 kerbal space program! It's a video game where you design your own spaceships and fly them to run your own space program. It's very free form and open ended in terms of goals, and also has a very active modding community! It does a decent job of teaching the intuition of orbital mechanics through experience as well, although it is lacking in the department of quantitative and rigorous education without a curriculum and teacher to go along with it, because it's not intended to being learning tool but does have a basic simulation of aerodynamics, orbital mechanics (just one body's gravity at a time, with the planets set on their orbits being hard-coded), and structural strength of your spaceships all being taken into account. If you're interested in it even if you don't typically play videogames I'd highly recommend looking it up on RU-vid to see what the gameplay is like, how the creator tools for making spaceships work, and some of the crazy stuff other people have made with it! Then if you do decide to give it a try I'd say it's absolutley worth every penny, and I think there's also a demo based on a very old version. They're also making a sequel (rumored to be more sci-fi while the current one is decently true to current technology).

​@@mcnultyssobercompanion6372 Kerbal Space Program

If you dont have a security clearance you can't see the video..

Not funny didnt laugh.

Thank you for telling us your opinion, even though nobody asked

@Jacob Howell Orbital graffiti! Plus: Good to see the X-Plane tradition continues...

@Jacob Howell Spray Painting in space may or may not go well. :)

@Jacob Howell In a vacuum the spray would expand out at an extreme angle. Also in a vacuum the solvents in the paint would almost instantly vaporize so all that would hit the solar panel is high velocity paint powder. I work with vacuum chambers and I also use a spray gun to paint. I've never tried to paint in a vacuum but I know it wouldn't work the same as it does in the atmosphere.

@Jacob Howell Ya, I was kind of joking too. It would be possible with very slow evaporating solvent in the paint and like you said some pretty fancy spray nozzles. It sounds like a fun challenge. I make industrial prototypes and one of a kind parts. I have made some parts for Lockheed Martin but I didn't ask what they were and they didn't tell me.

That'll be the Russian or Chinese copy.

@@bvcxzgt5451 those won't have a lazy boy or a t.v. they'll just have a poster of their leaders and some vodka

Turns out the US military have been using orbit to cool their beers

thats how editing works

Scott's back up generator is fueled with Haggis.

@@NeverTalkToCops1 Either that or whiskey.

@@RWBHere no self respecting Scott would waste whiskey on running a generator

Or a porno.

2 kinds of people.

I got an oscillating heat pipe in my pants.

An American band maybe. But Heavy Metal maybe in UK. Dont listen to or like Metal. Give me good old Prog Rock. Heavy but pre metal. I E. Deep purple or Black Sabbath. Or Arty Prog rock. Genesis Pete and Steve era. E.L.P. Bit off Topic. But mentioning band names like Oscillating heat pipe. Dreadnought a decent band name.

Dreadnought would be a deep band.

I actually met Burt Rutan at Oshkosh once back in the 90's- he's a cool guy!

White knights die in the end

Christopher Sturm racist

Arthur Guseynov how is what he said racist?

Eieght D oh no it’s not I just felt like it

Well, no, but actually yes

Technically a glider.

@@twistedyogert a glider is still a plane

@@twistedyogert a plane that isn't able to glide is no plane

In terms of distance travelled without refueling, most definitely.

I had guessed someone taking the chance for a last-stage aerodynamics trial.

no they wanted it to fly! lol

Or they just wanted it to look cool.

It's designed to kill doctors.

The Buran was fully autonomous too, it's an ability that has been around in one shape or another for a while.

It was? Cool! Then the Soviets must have been the first. Seems like quite an achievement for the 1980's.

@@Kevin_Street Well.. Most new airlines in the 80's were equipped with some form of autolanding ability, the tech started development in the late 60's I think.

Paul Jackson atlas is a hoot, the name has been around since late 1950s, and like grandpa’s axe, the handle has been replaced three times and the head twice, but apart from that it’s all 100% original

Unless its a Mac then they will just say you can download it for extra cost....

@@anarchyantz1564 Nope, you gotta buy a whole new iteration of the machine if you want it.

@@unlucky5442 the guy you're replying to is also making a joke

Oscillating Heat Pipe is the name of my next metal thrash klezmer band.

Here I thought it was a new style bong for Californians

when places have posters of the damned thing in their employee lounges, go figure.

Wasn't Black Arrow the last HTP rocket the UK designed to get cancelled?

Never thought of that, but you're right!

_"I am free and flying."_

@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman "Kill her! ...then we'll have pizza... and margarita shooters. Do it, John - kill her. Do it... do it!"

It's an old project, so Farscape-1 was likely modeled on some iteration of it.

@@Tfin "Ricky Eyres based the design of the ship (Farscape-1) on an experimental re-entry craft that NASA had designed." Dates line up, as well. X-37 project in 1999, first episode of Farscape aired March, 1999. Can't believe it's been 20 years already... oof.

Interesting.

Depends who's running it. The DOD funds a lot of basic research that will probably never get used for anything military related. alAnd even for the military angled things there's carry over to civilians, like GPS, or the fact that the early space program was built on ICBM's.

Not exactly, although all DOD projects are about expanding the military capabilities of the United States. The DOD tends to be fairly interested in new technologies that can enable any sort of military advantage, from better surveillance and intelligence, to communications. As such, they fund research in a lot of fields related to satellites, like thermal control, solar panels, and propulsion systems. TL:DR, having the best guns is nice, but knowing where to point them is just as important.

The DoD funds a lot of research into basic cell biology that's not really necessary for bioweapons development and such, to add to other examples.

Not really. Most are related to defending against the weapons of our enemies.

@@borkborkfoxxo279 The Navy is tasked by congress to perform research in Breast Cancer and Blood

I read the report. They didn't use the new TPS report cover sheet, though.

@@metanumia Yeah the second!

Makes you think.

It really really bothers me.

I love it! Spring hopes eternal!

Yup, Scott's the real deal. But actually, RU-vid overall *is* a minefield of information.

@@donjones4719 So true

Everytime I watch one of his videos knowledge explodes into my face :D

Naw..it may have assembled a giant SSP satellite for the length of time it was up in orbit

Epstein.

Aww an angry canadian globalist. So cute. When trump scratches his face with his middle finger do you percieve it as a direct insult to you?

@American Nationalist yeah. Launch secret sattelites until one collides with another and starts a fucking space debris chain reaction

@@CarlosAM1 Talk to the CCP or do you just take orders from them?

Well you can't tell "the bad guys" off if you do the same. Not that hypocriticism ever stopped anyone.

@@5Andysalive Not sure what the UN has to do with good or bad guys.

@@jimschuler8830 depending on your point of view in the UN is either very good or very bad. Being in the second category I think that anything that harms, denigrates or inconveniences the UN is for the greater good.

@@lowereducation6631 Why do you think UN is bad?

@@KrissFliss It's a giant self-sustaining bureaucracy that has no country to manage, answers to no one, performs no useful function, yet sucks enough money to sustain a medium sized country. It was intended to prevent world war, but that function is performed by the atomic bomb as a free bonus.

He has the 4th Doctor's sonic crewdriver in the background of some videos, and I think the scarf also

Where is that shirt available?

FarSeeker

Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler. The feels.

The answer to the the question "Who is your favorite Doctor" would be "Yes."

My impression also.

@@konradgajewski8215 I haven't heard much about Russia's spy satellite with the arm on it.

I see you're also a blue blazer regular.

... then your wing breaks under the re-entry load, and you slam the reactor against the ground 2.5 miles from Scott Manley house. Scott makes a video about it. His last one.

@@vladimirdyuzhev the uranium for a reactor that small probably wouldnt survive re entry

Where the power goes out so you can't charge your electric car that makes you feel self righteous, and where people drop drug needles and shit in the streets. Seriously, get out of California.

Yeah, California is literally politically destroying itself