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We were expecting a Starlink launch earlier today but that mission was postponed, however
there is a launch coming up soon.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the launch of SES-22 is expected to lift off on
Wednesday 29th at 9:04pm UTC or 5:04pm EDT.
We’ve been hoping for the NASA Psyche satellite to launch on a Falcon Heavy this year but
NASA has released some unfortunate news.
This article says “NASA announced Friday the Psyche asteroid mission, the agency’s
first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, will not make its planned 2022 launch
attempt.
Due to the late delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software and testing equipment, NASA
does not have sufficient time to complete the testing needed ahead of its remaining
launch period this year, which ends on Oct. 11.”
There was a Tweet posted about this.
It says “NASA’s Lori Glaze, in a media telecon starting now, confirms the Psyche
asteroid mission is standing down from the 2022 launch window after running into software
testing issues.
Teams are evaluating launch opportunities in 2023 and 2024.”
Jared Isaacman posted some cool pictures on Twitter of the Polaris Dawn crew in their
first week of training.
Heading to Boca Chica, the orbital tank farm and Mechazilla tower were seen venting recently.
Work is continuing on the Starfactory production building at the production site.
The crane in the production yard was disassembled and has starting moving away from Starbase.
There was a picture posted of an orbital launch mount segment being transported somewhere.
It says “SpaceX is either WAY behind on assembling the 2nd Starship Orbital Launch
Mount or this is for OLM #3.
Appears to be headed towards Pascagoula which is the current home of Phobos and Deimos.”
There was a picture posted on Twitter of the launch tower SpaceX are building at the Cape
for Starship.
It says “The Starship pad at LC-39A now has two of nine sections stacked and is what
you see attached to the crane.
This is the view from 12 miles away through the haze.
It’s going to be impressive.”
Michael Baylor posted a Tweet of a Raptor test that ended in a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
He said “Raptor RUD on the tripod stand in McGregor.
First RUD in a while.
Reminder that this is development testing so not unexpected.”
He also posted another Tweet saying “And SpaceX just fired a Raptor on another stand
just minutes later.
Pretty good indication that the RUD was no biggy.
Likely pushing the limits on purpose.”
Work continues on Starship 24 inside the High Bay.
With the work to get Starship 25 ready, SpaceX have installed the pez dispenser in the nosecone
barrel section.
Kevin Randolph posted this Tweet with pictures of the mechanism being lowered into the ring
stack.
He said “Starlink payload adapter AKA pez dispenser fitted into Ship 25 payload bay.”
Here’s some footage of it actually being lowered in.
The B7.1 test tank continues to be prepared for crush testing at the launch site.
On Thursday, SpaceX rolled out the Booster 7 prototype to the launch site.
SpaceX posted some awesome pictures of the Super Heavy Booster 7 prototype rolling out
to the launch site.
They said “Super Heavy Booster 7 with 33 Raptor engines installed was transported to
the orbital launch pad at Starbase.”
Later on, the chopstick catching arms were raised and B7 moved inside.
Then for the first time ever, we saw a Booster lifted onto the orbital launch mount using
the chopsticks.
The BQD was then hooked up to Booster 7.
There’s some very exciting news regarding the Super Heavy Booster 7 prototype.
This Tweet was posted saying “Hot off the presses!
MSIB just released for possible static fire testing during 27-30 Jun 2022!
Testing window from 10a.m. - 10p.m.”
Finally for this video, we’ll take a look at the road and beach closures on The Cameron
County website.
With Booster 7 now rolled out to the orbital launch pad with 33 Raptor 2 engines installed,
we can hopefully expect some static fire testing soon.
As per the last Tweet, there are possible closures scheduled for this coming week with
tomorrow, Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th.
For this video, I have to say thanks to Nic Ansuini for being out there filming the Boca
Chica content in this video.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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