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the place where you can stay up to date with everything SpaceX. This morning,
SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit with the Starlink-22 mission.
The booster which launched, B1060, then landed successfully for the 6th time on the droneship
Of Course I Still Love You. I missed this last week but SpaceX are constructing a new Octagrabber
at their Cidco Road facility. If you don’t know, SpaceX is constructing a third droneship which
is known as “A Shortfall Of Gravitas”. Whilst not exactly SpaceX information, this tweet was posted
by the FAA was posted which will affect SpaceX in a really good way. They posted “The final rule for
streamlining the licensing process for commercial launch and reentry operations is in effect!
It enhances innovation, flexibility, efficiency and public safety in commercial space operations.”
ArsTechnica posted a tweet about an article saying “Europe is starting to freak out about
the launch dominance of SpaceX” Musk responded with “They are aiming too low. Only rockets that
are fully & rapidly reusable will be competitive. Everything else will seem like a cloth biplane
in the age of jets.” There was a tweet in response saying “‘study competitive launch
systems from 2030 onward’ ... uh, cool. SpaceX will be setting up Mars Base Alpha by then.”
Musk responded to that and said “SpaceX will be landing Starships on Mars well before 2030.
The really hard threshold is making Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining.” Over in Boca Chica,
construction work continues with the orbital launch pad infrastructure. Here’s some other
work going on at the orbital launch site. Some new pieces were spotted delivered to the yard.
Work on the new mystery structure in the production yard is continuing.
They have now begun installing the bridge crane up inside the high bay. Chris B responded to a tweet
claiming the first Martian city could begin in 2054. He said “While we've heard little
about it of late, given SpaceX is busy testing the vehicles that will facilitate it, I'm pretty sure
Mars Base Alpha's construction start time isn't 2054.” Then, Musk responded with “Hopefully will
happen this decade.” Musk was then asked “How is Raptor Vac development and testing going?”
He said “Going well. Lot of work for an extra 20 secs of Isp!” Christina Koch posted a picture on
Instagram of NASA astronauts next to Starship. She said “Common goals, shared vision. NASA
astronauts learning about the SpaceX Starship - one element in a growing worldwide field of
deeper space exploration systems with sights on the moon and Mars.” Adam Bernstein posted a shot
of the nosecone I previously thought might be for SN15 hooked up to a crane. In another great shot
by Adam, the nose has also grown by 4 rings as they’ve stacked it with a section in the yard.
Somebody also pointed out that it may have been stacked with an upper dome section.
It’s possible this could be for pathfinder reasons related to NASA’s Human Lander System competition.
The new nosecone in the fabrication tent is getting close to being ready for stacking soon.
The new barrel section for this nose is also getting a platform to prepare for stacking.
This nose with 1 flap has also been moved outside now. Some new Starship aerosurface covers were
delivered to the yard. Having been stacked in the last video, work continues on the GSE 1 test tank.
SpaceX attempted a second static fire of SN11 on Monday and it looked to be successful.
They had a closure on Tuesday but all they did was a short test of the ground systems and Starship.
Then they cancelled the closure for today on Tuesday so we will not see SN11 fly today. Plus
they also cancelled the Thursday closure so no testing tomorrow either. As of now there are no
road and beach closures scheduled so we may not even see a launch this week. Along with that,
they also had temporary flight restrictions for today and tomorrow which were also removed.
They do however, still have a TFR for Friday, as well as a new TFR added today for Saturday
so there is still a possibility for a launch later this week. Here’s Super Heavy Booster
Number 1 which we saw stacked last episode, this is just going to be a pathfinder. As always,
thank you to Mary, known as BocaChicaGal who is out there in Texas filming all the
time. Also thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working hard behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content. That’s it for this episode of TheSpaceXShow, I hope you
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