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Supposed to launch on Friday but moved to Saturday, SpaceX successfully launched the
Crew-7 mission yesterday.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Engines full power.
And liftoff, go Falcon, go Dragon, go Crew-7.
Endurance ascends, an international crew destined for the Internation Space Station.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1081, then landed successfully for the first time
on the landing pad at Landing Zone 1.
[SpaceX Commentator: “And of course, we’re also expecting that landing burn start from
Falcon 9… any second now.
Great views.
Stage 2 FTS has safed.
Great news there that stage 1 has successfully landed back at Landing Zone 1 in Florida.”]
Also, earlier this morning or yesterday depending on your timezone, SpaceX successfully launched
the Starlink 6-11 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Ignition.
And liftoff, go Falcon, go Starlink.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1080, then landed successfully for the 3rd time
on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Stage 1 landing burn.
Stage 2 is in terminal guidance.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Stage 1 landing confirmed.”]
Coming up this week, we can hopefully expect another couple of Falcon 9 missions to launch.
The first of these, the SDA Tranche 0B mission is scheduled for Thursday 31st at 2:26pm UTC
or 10:26am EDT.
That same day, we could also see a Starlink mission launch just a matter of hours later.
The Starlink 6-13 mission is currently scheduled for Thursday 31st at 11:31pm UTC or 7:31pm
EDT.
Heading to Boca Chica, work continued on the orbital mount prior to Booster 9’s return.
The old Mid Bay building in the yard is now in the process of being demolished.
A crate was seen moved into and opened up inside the Starlink building.
Here’s a view of the S24.2 test tank being worked on out in the yard.
A Raptor vacuum engine was spotted being installed underneath Starship 28.
As we saw in the last video, SpaceX rolled Booster 9 back to the launch site with its
hot staging ring installed.
On Friday, SpaceX successfully performed the second static fire test of the Booster 9 prototype
and the first since it being rolled back out.
SpaceX also posted some aerial footage of this Booster 9 static fire test.
They said “Super Heavy Booster 9 static fire successfully lit all 33 Raptor engines,
with all but two running for the full duration.
Congratulations to the SpaceX team on this exciting milestone!”
In response, they posted yet another video of the test.
This one says “The test produced approximately 7.9 million lbf of thrust (~3,600 metric tons).”I
also wanted to share this really cool top-down video they also posted.
With the Booster 9 testing that happened during the week, the closures were utilised.
There is, however, another possible closure for this coming week with tomorrow, Monday
28th.
As always, I have to say thanks to both Sean Doherty and Jack Beyer for being out there
filming the Starbase content.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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