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The Falcon Heavy mission we were expecting yesterday was delayed slightly.
The USSF-67 mission is now scheduled for today, Sunday 15th at 10:56pm UTC or 5:56pm EST.
SpaceX posted a Tweet saying “Falcon Heavy is now vertical on Launch Complex 39A in Florida.
Targeting Sunday, January 15 for launch of the USSF-67 mission.”
The next launch after that will be a GPS 3 mission.
The GPS 3-6 mission is currently scheduled for Wednesday 28th at 12pm UTC or 7am EST.
SpaceX posted a Tweet about the next Starlink mission being postponed.
It says “Due to unfavorable recovery weather conditions with 15+ foot waves in the Pacific
Ocean, as well as high winds across Central and Southern California, we’re now targeting
no earlier than Wednesday, January 18 for Falcon 9’s launch of Starlink from California.”
There was official news that all of the stranded MS-22 crew members will return on the MS-23
capsule with no SpaceX involvement.
However, there was also news about the plan in case they need to return in an emergency.
Eric Berger posted this Tweet saying “A few more Soyuz details: The new Soyuz (MS-23)
will dock to ISS on February 22.
In the interim NASA will move Frank Rubio's Soyuz seat to the Crew-5 Dragon in case an
emergency exit is needed.
Current plan is for the two Russians to return on Soyuz MS-22 in such an emergency.”
Chris Bergin posted a Tweet with a video of the chopstick catching arms rolling out to
pad 39A.
He said “And there's the 39A Mechazilla Chopsticks for Starship!”
He then posted another Tweet saying “As Elon noted a while back, these are shorter
than the ones at Starbase.”
SpaceX posted these super cool pictures of the full stacked Starship.
They also posted a Tweet saying “Team are stepping into a series of tests prior to Starship's
first flight test in the weeks ahead, including full stack wet dress rehearsals and hold down
firing of Booster 7's 33 Raptor engines.”
Chris Bergin posted a Tweet asking Elon Musk whether his guess for the timeline to orbital
launch is correct.
It says “Does this sound about right?
Cryotest today, then WDR next week.
Destack for 33 engine Static Fire.
Final TPS work on Ship 24.
Re-stack.
Launch License.
Possible end of Feb/Early March if all goes well (per your previous timeline)?”
Musk responded with “That’s a good guess.”
Musk was asked “How many starships is SpaceX looking to build this year?”
He responded and said “About five full stacks.”
Chris Bergin posted a Tweet yesterday after SpaceX rolled out the Starship 25 prototype
to the launch site.
He said “At the launch site.
Welcome to Pad B, Ship 25!”
On Friday SpaceX did some full stack testing of Starship as they progress towards the first
orbital flight.
In addition to the test that happened with the full stack Starship, SpaceX have some
closures for this coming week.
There are possible closures for Tuesday 17th, Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th.
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livestreams and other space content.
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