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Just a reminder to kick off this video, there is another Falcon 9 launch expected very soon.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the IXPE launch is scheduled to lift off tomorrow,
Thursday 9th at 6am UTC or 1am Eastern Time.
I didn’t include this in the last video, but SpaceX posted a few Tweets about this
launch.
They said in the first Tweet that they had completed the static fire test for the booster.
Next they posted “IXPE is SpaceX’s fifth launch to-date for NASA’s launch services
program.”
As well as that, they also posted saying “This will also be the fifth launch for this Falcon
9’s first stage booster, which previously supported launch of Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8,
and CRS-23.”
I wanted to share this NASA article announcing a new class of astronaut candidates.
It says one of them is “Anil Menon, 45, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force, was born
and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping to launch the company’s first humans to
space during NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission and building a medical organization to support
the human system during future missions.”
Jeff Foust posted a Tweet saying “Rogozin says cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly on a US
commercial crew vehicle in the fall of 2022 (which would be Crew Dragon Crew-5) with a
NASA astronaut flying on a Soyuz as part of a seat barter agreement.”
An interesting Tweet was posted by Stephen Marr today.
He said “Falcon B1052 rolled by the press site with an upper stage attached.
This booster that had previously served as a Falcon Heavy side booster on 2 missions
has now been converted to fly as a Falcon 9!”
To start the Boca Chica updates, the orbital launch mount is continuing to be worked on.
The booster quick disconnect cover was moved to the launch site.
This quick disconnect hood was also installed on the booster quick disconnect mechanism.
Over in the production yard, the Wide Bay construction is continuing with more panels
installed.
This liquid nitrogen tank was delivered to the propellant production site.
Here’s a cool image posted by RGV Aerial Photography with a comparison of Starbase
in January 2019 vs November 2021, such a huge amount of progress in that time.
In relation to this Tweet, Musk was asked “When Starship update?
Definitely overdue!”
He responded and said “Hopefully, this month, no later than next.”
There were a couple of Tweets posted by Michael Sheetz recently quoting Elon Musk that I wanted
to share.
The first says “Elon Musk says ‘Starship is a hard, hard, hard, hard project.’
‘This is a profound revolution in access to orbit.
There has never been a fully reusable launch vehicle.
This is the holy grail of space technology.’”
The other one said “In order to make a rocket fully reusable, you've got to basically create
a rocket that can do about 4%, if not more than 4%, of its mass to orbit – which hasn't
happened before.”
After the static fire abort, crews have been working inside the Starship 20 engine section.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures once again, hopefully next week we’ll see
another static fire test of Starship 20.
The closures that were expected today and tomorrow, as well as Friday have been cancelled.
However, there are further closures scheduled for Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th next week.
This upper dome stack for the Starship 22 prototype was lifted and moved into the Mid
Bay.
After testing recently, the B2.1 test tank was moved back to the production site.
Super Heavy Booster 4 was recently hooked up to a crane.
Musk was asked about Booster 4 with this Tweet saying “So, how soon do we think B4 will
move to the OLP?”
Elon Musk responded and said “Booster production is currently ahead of engine production.”
This Booster 6 common dome section was seen sitting outside.
There is also a Booster upper stack that was seen sitting outside.
These 2 sections were then stacked to form part of what is believed to be a test tank.
As always, I have to say thank you to Mary, known as BocaChicaGal for being out there
filming the Starbase content.
Also, thank you to Nic Ansuini who’s been out there filming some of the content too.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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