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On Thursday, SpaceX launched more astronauts with the launch of the Crew-6 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Two.
One.
Engines full power.
And lift off of Crew-6.
Go Dragon, go Falcon.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1078, then landed successfully for the 1st time
on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Stage 1 landing burn.
And there we heard the callout, indicating that landing burn…
Dragon, SpaceX, we have nominal orbit insertion…
Great news there for…
SpaceX, Dragon, copy, nominal orbital insertion…
Launch escape system disarmed… for Dragon Endeavor…
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Attempting to land on our droneship Just Read The Instructions.
Stage 1 landing is confirmed.
And there you can see on your screen, and also indicated by the cheers behind me, successful
landing of this booster.
Its first trip to space, and therefore its first landing.”]
On Friday, SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites with the Starlink 2-7
mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Two.
One.
Engines full power.
And lift off of Starlink.
Go Falcon, go Starlink.
Vehicle is pitching downrange.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1061, then landed successfully for the 12th time
on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Stage 2 terminal guidance.
Stage 1 landing burn.
And there’s confirmation that the stage 1 landing burn has started in preparation
for touchdown on our droneship, Of Course I Still Love You.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
mVac shutdown.
Stage 1 landing confirmed.
As I’m sure you just heard and saw, Falcon 9 has successfully landed on our droneship,
Of Course I Still Love You in the pacific ocean.
This marks our 176th overall landing of an orbital class rocket, including Falcon 9 and
Falcon Heavy missions.”]
There is another launch that we can hopefully expect this coming week.
The OneWeb-17 launch is currently scheduled for Thursday 9th at 7:05pm UTC or 2:05pm EST.
Related to that Starlink launch we saw, SpaceX posted a couple of Tweets.
The first says “Falcon 9 launches Starlink to orbit from California, completing SpaceX’s
15th mission so far this year.”
Then they responded with “The team is launching on average every 4 days.”
There was an article posted with information about SpaceX getting more launches.
It says “Munich-based Rivada Space Networks, which is building a 300-satellite constellation,
has ordered 12 rocket launches with SpaceX.
The launches are planned to happen between April 2025 and June 2026.”
There was an article posted about a seat barter agreement between NASA and Roscosmos.
It says “NASA is working with the Russian government to update an agreement to allow
Russian cosmonauts to fly on the next two SpaceX crew rotation missions to the International
Space Station.”
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital launch site.
Work on installing the orbital launch mount shielding has been continuing.
There was recently a Marine Safety Information Bulletin posted for SpaceX testing around
Boca Chica.
This MSIB is for this week on March 10th for some testing hopefully.
Work has been going on with the test nosecone.
The flaps for Starship 24 were seen being closed and chained.
Here’s a view of Starship 25 which was recently rolled back to the production site.
Ship 25 was later seen rolled to Massey’s test site.
As we saw previously, Starship 26 was also rolled back from the launch site.
It was moved into the High Bay.
Lifting points were seen being attached to the Ship 28 nosecone.
Work has continued on Booster 7 with a HPU cover seen being replaced.
As always, I have to say thank you to both Nic Ansuini and Jack Beyer for being out there
filming the Boca Chica content.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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