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We have some Starlink bits to kick off this video, starting with the launch of the Starlink-19.
Yesterday, the Falcon 9 mission lifted off which put another 60 Starlink satellites into
orbit.
Unfortunately though, B1059, flying for the 6th time, failed to land on the droneship.
We don’t have any official information on what happened.
However, during re-entry, after the engine burn had completed, something off-nominal
was seen with the booster.
It’s likely this could be related to why the booster failed to stick the landing.
Scott Manley posted a tweet about telemetry of the first stage.
He said “Comparison of booster accelerations around time of entry burn - blue is last night's
flight, red is from 2 weeks ago.
It's not a full 33% reduction in thrust so it wasn't a complete engine failure.
Afterwards you can see aerodynamic drag rises faster before loss of telemetry.”
With some good news however, Elon Musk posted a tweet saying “Active fairing half recovered
though.”
You are probably aware of Inspiration4, an all civilian mission planned to launch next
year.
There’s currently a contest to win a seat with the money raised going to charity.
However, apparently, the amount raised so far is short of their fundraising goal.
There’s a CNBC article about SpaceX raising more money.
It says “SpaceX completed a raise of $850 million last week, people familiar with the
financing told CNBC, sending the company’s valuation to about $74 billion.”
It also says “The company raised the new funds at $419.99 a share, those people said,
or just 1 cent below the $420 price that Elon Musk made infamous in 2018.”
Now we have the Boca Chica and Starship stuff, starting as always with the work at the orbital
launch site.
In the production area, there is a new crane that’s been put together.
Also in the yard, they’re continuing work with the new structure.
It’s been suggested this could be for the new orbital launch mount.
Some new arrivals were spotted at the build site, could this possibly be a grid fin for
Super Heavy.
The Raptor engine SN27, which previously flew SN5 to 150 metres was delivered back to the
production area.
A new body flap was also spotted having arrived recently, possibly for SN15.
SN10 is still waiting on the pad for upcoming testing, but the weather is currently quite
bad in Texas.
As you can see from this Teslarati article, Texas is currently experiencing some extreme
winter weather.
So whilst there are some SN10 testing delays, hopefully the weather allows for a static
fire and flight soon.
However, interestingly, even with no road closure, Mary posted on Tuesday “I have
received an “Alert” notice for tomorrow February 17.
Possible Starship SN10 static fire attempt tomorrow between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6
p.m.
No road closure has been posted on the Cameron county website though!!
We’ll see what happens tomorrow.”
SN11 now has all its aerosurfaces as it gets closer to testing.
Here’s a view of SN15’s nosecone and barrel section getting close to stacking.
As always, the Starship updates wouldn’t be possible without Mary, or BocaChicaGal
out there constantly filming, so thanks to her.
Also, working hard behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams and other space content
is the NASASpaceflight team, so thanks to them as well.
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