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On Sunday, SpaceX launched the USSF-67 mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket. [SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Engines full power. And lift off of USSF-67. Go Falcon Heavy, go Space Force.”] The 2 boosters
which launched this mission, B1064 and B1065 landed for the 2nd time each on the landing
pads at LZ-1 and LZ-2. [SpaceX Commentator: “Side core entry burn startup. And there you can see on
your screen, the entry burns for the side boosters have begun. They’re… just about 12 seconds long.
FTS has safed and NY FTS is safed. And the entry burns for both side boosters have concluded.
Now, next up will be the final burn for each of these side boosters, that is the landing burn.
It is just a single engine burn, the centre E9 engine. Each one of these M1D engines has
about 190,000 pounds of thrust. So, that is enough… to slow the vehicle down just in time
for landing. And you can see the coast of Florida in the background. Side boosters are transonic.
Now that landing burn coming up here in just about 20 seconds or so.
Landing burn will last about 20 seconds long. Again, we are scheduled to landing on Landing
Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2. Booster landing burn. And there are those landing burns,
have begun on the side boosters, so let’s watch as they touchdown.
Stage 2 is in terminal guidance. Stage 2 FTS is safed. Booster landing leg deploy.
What an incredible sight to see, as we watch the side boosters touchdown for
landing. That confirms successful landing of both Falcon Heavy side boosters on Landing
Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2. Now with these 2 side boosters, this marks the 163rd and
164th overall successful landing of an orbital class rocket.”] In addition to that launch,
earlier today, SpaceX launched the GPS 3-6 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One. Engines full power. And lift off of Falcon 9. Go GPS, go Falcon.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1077,
then landed successfully for the 2nd time on the droneship A Shortfall Of
Gravitas. [SpaceX Commentator: “Let’s see if we stick the landing… with the first stage.
Landing leg deploy.
Stage 1 landing confirmed. Alright, there we heard the callout that we have that stage 1 landing
confirmed. Expected loss of signal, Cape.”] The next launch should hopefully be a Starlink
mission. The delayed Starlink 4-2 mission is currently scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday 19th at
1:23pm UTC or 8:23am EST. Heading to Boca Chica, here’s Starship sitting on the orbital launch
mount. SpaceX had a bit of a mishap as the front gate to the launch site fell over. This Starlink
dispenser was seen being installed in a barrel section. The old Ship 22 prototype was moved
to the High Bay. As we saw last video, Starship 25 was recently rolled out to the launch site.
Ship 25 was lifted onto the Pad B test mount. Also as we saw last video, SpaceX did some full stack
cryogenic testing of Starship. Taking a look at the road and beach closures, the possible
closure for yesterday was cancelled. However, they have possible closures for today, Wednesday 18th,
tomorrow, Thursday 19th and Friday 20th this week. Then, next week, they have possible closures for
Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th. As I record this video, the road and beach are closed and there
is full stack testing of Starship underway. I believe today they’re doing a full stack wet dress
rehearsal of Starship. Here’s a view of Booster 10’s methane section in the Mid Bay. As always,
I have to say thanks to Nic Ansuini for being out there filming the Starbase content. Also,
thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams and other
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