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On Wednesday local time, after a bunch of delays in the weeks prior, SpaceX finally
launched the Crew-3 mission to the ISS.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Zero.
Ignition.
And liftoff.
Godspeed Crew-3.”]
The booster which launched, B1067, then landed successfully for the 2nd time on the droneship
A Shortfall Of Gravitas.
Around 24 hours later, the Crew-3 astronauts arrived at the International Space Station.
NASA posted this Tweet saying “Four new astronauts through the hatch and seven crew
members total on the Space Station!
After almost exactly a day from launch, Crew-3 is aboard the orbiting laboratory.”
A couple of days later, on Friday, SpaceX launched yet another mission with another
batch of Starlink satellites.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Liftoff.”]
The booster which launched that mission, B1062, then landed successfully for the 4th time
on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
There is a new Starlink terminal that’s very square compared with the old one and
somebody posted a picture on Twitter.
Musk responded and said “Pattern on the Starlink router is orbital transfer ellipse
from Earth to Mars.”
Somebody posted a Tweet with an infographic about the Starlink launch.
Musk responded and said “Inter-satellite laser communications means Starlink can carry
data at speed of light in vacuum all around Earth before touching ground.
Over time, some amount of communication can simply be from one user terminal to another
without touching the Internet.”
There was then a Tweet posted saying “My parents are about to travel the earth by boat
and it would be great if they could use Starlink for their voyage!”
Musk responded with “Should work everywhere for global maritime by roughly middle of next
year (enough sats with laser links launched).
Until then, it will be patchy when far from land.”
Over in Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital launch mount and tower.
Here’s a view of the rapid progress of the new Wide Bay building.
Here you can see the staircase sections in the High Bay.
There was an article posted by The Verge about NASA’s target date for the Artemis lunar
landings.
It says “NASA is pushing back its target date for returning humans to the Moon, now
eyeing a crewed lunar landing in 2025 instead of 2024 as originally planned.”
Thought I would share this information about an event in which Elon Musk will be talking
about Starship.
It will be happening on November 17th between 6pm and 6:30pm Eastern Time.
During the course of the week, the Ship 20 vehicle was prepared for another static fire
test.
However, this time the static fire is with all 6 engines and was performed on Friday.
Chris Bergin posted a Tweet saying “STATIC FIRE and wow!
Ship 20 fires up, with thrust this time, for a multi-engine test at SpaceX Starbase.”
Musk responded with “Good static fire with all six engines!”
SpaceX posted an amazing picture on Twitter with the caption “First 6-engine static
fire test of Starship.”
Here’s the Starship 21 nosecone pieces stacked in the yard.
The other part of Ship 21 in the Mid Bay will have body flaps installed soon.
The barrel section here is for the aft section of the Starship 23 prototype.
They moved the B2.1 test tank and the GSE-4 test tank to the launch site for some testing.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, there are a
bunch of upcoming dates.
The next closure is scheduled for Wednesday 17th this coming week, as well as Thursday
18th and Friday 19th.
Plus, there are additional closures posted for Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd for some
more testing.
Super Heavy Booster 4 has continued to be worked on in preparation for its own testing.
The Booster 5 construction progress is continuing in the High Bay.
The Super Heavy Booster 6 upper stack was recently sleeved in the yard.
Crews are also working on the aft section for Booster 6 in the yard.
As always, I have to say thanks to Mary, known as BocaChicaGal who is out there all the time
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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