Hello, we are TheSpaceXFans and welcome to TheSpaceXShow, the place where you can stay
up to date with everything SpaceX. Today we only have a little bit of SpaceX news so mostly
Boca Chica updates. But there’s lots of action to look at with SN7.1 burst, SN8 flaps
and even Super Heavy has been spotted, plus more. So let’s head straight in and get
up to date… Starting off today’s video, we now have a new date in which to expect
the next launch of 60 Starlink satellites. Starlink-12 was expected to launch multiple
times recently but had to be delayed due to various reasons. However, as you can see on
TheSpaceXFans website, it’s now expected to lift off on Sunday 27th September. Also
on there is currently a date set for the next GPS 3 launch. It’s currently expected to
lift off on Wednesday 30th September but remember these dates could change at any point. Turns
out that the details for Tom Cruise and Doug Liman to go and film on the ISS have been
finalised. Along with a NASA astronaut and potentially one other person, the Crew Dragon
capsule carrying the men will launch in October 2021. Starting off the Boca chica updates,
we recently saw that all of the rebar cages had been sleeved. Not really progressed much
as engineers continue to work on the sleeves but here’s the latest view of the new orbital
launch mount. At the landing pad, work has been going on recently, here you can see what
they’re doing at the moment. Looking at the other launch mounts with Pad B, you can
see that the thrust simulator has been removed since the SN7.1 testing. Although, the Pad
A mount has since had the addition of the same thrust simulators for testing the next
Starship to be placed on the mount. Over at the production site, the high bay for the
Super Heavy boosters is still under construction. This great shot shows both Bluezilla and the
new red crane that recently arrived. Whilst they’ve been working on getting the walls
put up, there’re also engineers working up top as they continue installing the roof.
The roll lift was seen heading back to the launch area after recently assisting SN5 and
SN6 into the high bay. As a lot of you will know, yesterday there was a Tesla battery
day event in which Elon Musk actually gave a little Starship information. Here’s what
he said. “Over time, we’ll see all modes of transport, with the ironic exception of
rockets, transition to sustainability, to electric basically. On the rocket front, what
we’re planning to do is; about 80% of Starship is oxy.. is Liquid Oxygen, and we’re actually
already running a power line to be able to use wind power to create Liquid Oxygen.”
With some recent bad weather over in Boca Chica, lots of components were moved back
into tents, here’s a bunch of ring stacks. Spotted hanging out outside in the construction
yard is a strapped down, 3 ring stack. Behind the tents by the windbreaker, the nose cones
were also recently moved into fabrication tents. However, since then they have been
moved back outside as SpaceX cracks on with constructing more in the tent. With SpaceX
storing and working on ring stacks all over the place, here we have another sitting in
a tent hooked up to be moved soon. Not sure if this ring stack is the same as what we
just saw but you can see another stack was moved out of a tent. Now, moving onto SN7.1
as it was continuing to wait for its demise with SpaceX planning to test how high they
can get the pressure before it pops. On Monday through to Tuesday, both Mary and the NASASpaceflight
team hosted a livestream for over 7 hours as we were hoping for a pop. However, after
2 attempts, the tank was seen venting and it was clear that there had been another abort.
Then, after Mary and NSF streaming for more than 21 hours combined with all the testing
attempts, it finally happened. Throughout the night and morning from Tuesday through
to Wednesday, SpaceX filled the tank with Liquid Nitrogen. Then, once they were ready
they closed off the top valves and started increasing the pressure to the point of failure.
So now, once the area is safe again, they’ll work to get SN7.1 out of there. Looking at
the next Starships, for a while now the SN8 tank has been stacked and prepared for testing.
As of recently it was also moved outside of the mid bay sporting its aerosurface covers
for the fins. With SN8 now outside the mid bay, they can commence with installing the
fins, here you can see them lifting one for installation. Then, just in front of the mid
bay, you can see that they recently installed the first fin to the body of Starship SN8.
Here is the latest build diagram from Brendan for SN8. We have a bit of SN9 with the pretty
much complete, upper bulkhead and ring stack which were recently moved outside. SpaceX
are probably going to have SN9 stacked fully quite soon. As well as SN8 and SN9, the Starship
SN10 tank is also continuing to progress nicely. Here you can see a new lower bulkhead with
its thrust puck sitting on a sleeving mount. Then, you can see that a ring stack moved
outside was lifted and the bulkhead and rings were sleeved together. Now they will weld
these together to form part of the SN10 aft section. So, this is the SN10 build diagram
and parts for this tank are coming together nicely and at an amazing pace. The last Starship
serial number to show you for this video is SN11, here you can see that the leg skirt
was hooked up to be moved. Then it was seen being moved around the yard and into a fabrication
tent to be worked on further. Here we also have the SN11 build diagram once again from
Brendan. Hopefully soon, we will see more sections for this tank emerge. Finally for
this video, what we have here is a brand new barrel section being moved out of the tent.
Although this is no Starship section, this is the very first barrel section and the common
bulkhead ring stack for Super Heavy. Whilst this ring stack was moved out of 1 fabrication
tent, it was then moved back into another for further work. Of course that also means
we have a new build diagram to see for the construction of the first Super Heavy. This
thing is going to be absolutely insane to see. None of these updates would be possible
without the amazing Mary, otherwise known as BocaChicaGal going out and filming so thank
you. As well, thank you to the rest of the NASASpaceflight team who are all doing amazing
work behind the scenes, particularly with their livestreams. That’s it for this episode
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