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We have a short one but kicking off today’s video, SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink
satellites with the Starlink 3-4 mission earlier today.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Ignition.
And lift off of Starlink 3-4.
Go Falcon 9.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1063, landed successfully for the 7th time on the
droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Stage 1 landing burn.
There you can see stage 1 has lit 1 engine, the centre engine, to prepare for landing
on our droneship we can start to see in the background here.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Stage 1 landing is confirmed.
Alright and as you can see there, Falcon 9 has landed.
This marks SpaceX’s 58th first stage landing on our droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
And our 39th launch of this year.”]
Musk posted a Tweet about the SpaceX logo with information I hadn’t known nor picked
up on before.
He said “The swoop of the X is meant to represent the rocket’s arc to orbit.”
The Royal Caribbean Group who run the cruise ships posted a Tweet related to Starlink.
They said “We've just announced our plan to implement SpaceX’s Starlink, making us
the first in the cruise industry to adopt the technology.
The game-changing, high-speed internet will be deployed on Royal Caribbean, Celebrity
Cruise and Silversea ships.”
Royal Caribbean had been testing Starlink for some time and are very happy with it and
they also posted this article along with the Tweet.
They also said “The installation is slated to be completed by the end of the first quarter
of 2023.”
Zach Golden asked Elon Musk a question on Twitter about the Booster QD connector.
He asked “Hey Elon Musk, why can't the Booster QD on the OLM be used to start the center
13 engines?
In other words, the launch mount would be responsible for starting all 33 engines instead
of just the outer 20.
COPV's would only used for boost back and landing burns.”
Musk responded and said “Agreed, we recently made this change & many others.
An intense effort is underway to achieve robust engine containment in case of RUD to protect
booster, other engines & launch ring.”
Somebody posted an infographic showing the scale of Starship vs all the other rockets
ever produced.
Musk responded with “It will grow by at least 5 to 10 meters over time.”
Taking a look at the road and beach closures, some more dates were added.
We were expecting testing on Monday and they did something, but no testing happened.
They sent out an overpressure notice for Tuesday, indicating a static fire but the road closure
was cancelled in the end.
They also sent out a notice yesterday and have a closure for today, Wednesday 31st,
hopefully for some more testing.
In addition, they’ve added possible closures for tomorrow, Thursday 1st and next week with
Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th.
The final thing to share before we finish the video, we have another updated Starbase
production diagram to take a look at thanks to Brendan Lewis.
This video is unlike any other where we actually don’t have anything from Starbase to take
a look at.
Hopefully in the next video there will be some content but for this video there is not
and hence why it’s so short.
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