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We recently found out from Gwynne Shotwell that the manufacturing cost of a Starlink
terminal is around $3,000.
Somebody Tweeted about an article saying “SpaceX Is Selling Starlink Dish At A Much Lower Price
Than What It Costs To Make.”
Musk responded with “For now.
Costs are decreasing rapidly.”
There’s an article related to a new Falcon Heavy mission.
It says “Astrobotic has signed a contract with SpaceX for the launch of its Griffin
lunar lander, carrying a NASA lunar rover, on a Falcon Heavy in 2023.”
There’s another planned launch announced on a Falcon 9 rocket.
Somebody announced on Twitter “UAE now aims to land its Rashid rover on the lunar surface
by next year (not 2024 as initially planned) using a lander by Japan's iSpace company.”
They added to this with “iSpace will launch its spacecraft with the payloads on a SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket.”
Gavin Cornwell posted a tweet saying “Ms. Chief provides a water salute as she retires
from SpaceX operations.
Thanks for all the fun.”
So that’s now both Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief gone.
In Boca Chica, here’s the work continuing at the orbital launch site with the tank farm.
Work is also continuing on the base of the vehicle integration tower at the orbital launch
site.
The structure in the production yard with the old nosecone inside has now got the addition
of some poles.
Somebody posted a cool render of a Starship stack on the pad waiting to lift off with
the caption “Hello SN69.”
Musk responded to that tweet with “69th Raptor engine coming soon.”
The next nosecone is still being worked on in the tent.
A ring stack with lead-ins was spotted out in the yard waiting for stacking.
There’s a new lower stack that was recently sleeved and moved in the yard.
A Super Heavy grid fin was loaded onto a trailer.
Boca Charts posted a cool picture of each Starship from rollout to liftoff with launch
attempts added.
Will be interesting to see where SN15 sits on this timeline when it launches given that
it has some major upgrades.
There’s still a load of big pieces of SN11 scattered around the launch site.
On Monday, SN15 performed a cryogenic proof test with the thrust simulators.
SN15 also performed some further testing yesterday as well.
Looking at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, SpaceX tested
Starship on Monday and Tuesday.
There was also another closure for today and tomorrow but those have since been cancelled.
There is a road closure for Friday 16th though so hopefully today and tomorrow they will
install Raptors for a static fire as soon as Friday.
RGVAerialPhotography posted a picture saying “SN16 section with a lot of heat shield
tiles just spotted next to the midbay!”
This new Super Heavy lower bulkhead we’ve seen is now on the sleeving mount.
This dome has also now been sleeved.
Super Heavy booster number 1 has been cut in half as they now look to scrap it.
Brendan’s diagrams usually get shown in the Sunday video due to him uploading them
once a week.
However, he released a new one yesterday with a new design, so here’s the latest Starship
and Super Heavy build diagram thanks to Brendan Lewis to finish off our video today.
As always, I have to say thanks to Mary, or BocaChicaGal who’s out there all the time
filming the amazing content in Boca Chica.
Also, thanks to the great NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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