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To kick off the standard SpaceX updates for this video, we can hopefully expect the Crew-3
launch soon after many delays.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the Crew-3 mission should hopefully lift off tomorrow
at 2:03am UTC or today at 9:03pm EDT.
Talking about crewed missions, on Tuesday, the Crew-2 capsule and it’s crew members
returned to Earth after their mission to the ISS.
NASA posted this article with a video of the crew that says “Smiles, thumbs up, and peace
signs.
The SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts are happy to be home after six months in space.”
SpaceX posted a couple of Tweets related to this mission.
The first says “The Crew-2 astronauts and Dragon spent 199 days in orbit, the first
U.S. spacecraft to reach that milestone!”
Then they also posted “Since this Dragon also completed the 63-day Demo-2 mission last
year, it has now clocked over 260 days in space.”
There was an article posted on ArsTechnica about a slight issue that happened during
the Crew-2 landing.
It says “Three of the four parachutes came out nominally, but inflation of the fourth
parachute was delayed by a fraction of a minute.”
SpaceX also posted a Tweet related to the Crew-3 mission.
They said “Following Crew-2’s return to Earth, Falcon 9 will launch Dragon’s third
long-duration crew mission to the Space Station as soon as Wednesday, November 10; weather
forecast is 80% favorable for liftoff.”
Michael Sheetz posted a Tweet with an infographic and said “China led Q3 in both the number
and payload mass of orbital rocket launches.”
Musk responded with “Actually, 41 tons for SpaceX in Q3 & aiming for 80 tons in Q4.
That said, China launch mass to orbit is extremely impressive.”
In response to that, Everyday Astronaut Tweeted “What’s perhaps most crazy is a single
Starship / SuperHeavy launch could put everything launched in that quarter into orbit in a single
launch… now that’s impressive.”
Musk responded and said “True.”
Then he posted another Tweet with “The Starship fleet is designed to achieve over 1000 times
more payload to orbit than all other rockets on Earth combined.
Almost no one understands this.”
Over in Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital tank farm.
Crews have begun to reave Mechazilla’s pulley cable.
The orbital launch mount construction is continuing to progress.
A new spot robot called Apollo has been spotted walking around.
On the right you can see SpaceX’s new crane and on the left a crane being disassembled.
The disassembled crane has since left the launch site and moved to the production site
to assist with the Wide Bay.
The construction of the Wide Bay in the production yard is progressing.
Starship 20 now has all 6 engines installed and is waiting for another static fire very
soon.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, there is closure
scheduled for today.
Then, they also have a few other closures scheduled with tomorrow, Thursday 11th, Friday
and then Monday 15th next week.
To add to the closure information today; yesterday, Mary posted a Tweet where she added a picture
of the static fire alert she received.
So it’s looking like there could be a possible static fire attempt with more engines this
time for the Starship 20 prototype today.
Here’s a view on the current progress of Ship 21 being stacked in the Mid Bay.
Also stacked now is the Starship 21 nosecone as the prototype progresses fast.
The B2.1 test tank in the thrust simulator is continuing to be prepared for testing.
Work continues on the Super Heavy Booster 4 prototype in preparation for testing.
As always, to finish the video, I have to thank both Mary, or BocaChicaGal and Nic Ansuini
who are constantly out there filming the amazing content.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working hard behind the scenes on their great videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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