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Starting this video, we have another batch of 60 Starlinks launched with the Starlink-24
mission on Thursday.
The booster which launched this mission, B1060, then landed successfully for the 7th time
on the droneship, Just Read The Instructions.
We’re going to take a look at yet another launch coming up soon, with the Starlink-25
mission.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, it should lift off on Tuesday, May 4th at 7:01pm
UTC or 3:01pm EDT.
Yesterday, the astronauts of the Crew-1 mission got into their Dragon capsule and undocked
from the ISS.
They returned early this morning.
SpaceX tweeted “After 167 days in space, the longest duration mission for a U.S. spacecraft
since the final Skylab mission in 1974, Dragon and the Crew-1 astronauts, Mike Hopkins, Victor
Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi, returned to Earth this morning!”
Heading over to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital launch mount and integration
tower progress.
Some caps for the orbital launch mount pillars were spotted.
The orbital tank farm continues to progress with the 2 ground support equipment tanks.
Also progressing is the orbital launch table in the production yard.
Work has been going on to repair the landing pad in preparation for SN15.
You probably know about the protests from Blue Origin and Dynetics on the HLS contract
being awarded to SpaceX.
SpacePolicyOnline has posted an article saying “NASA has suspended its contract with SpaceX
for the landing system to take astronauts down to and back from the lunar surface.
Two other competitors for the contract, Blue Origin and Dynetics, have filed protests with
the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and NASA issued the stop work order until
GAO resolves the matter.”
Raptor serial number 55 was spotted delivered to the yard.
A new ground support equipment tank upper bulkhead was sleeved.
The ground support equipment tank, GSE-3 has now been stacked.
There are still pieces of SN11 scattered near the launch site being cleared up.
SN15 didn’t launch on Thursday because the launch license had not been approved.
However, on Thursday, SpaceX did get final approval from the FAA for SN15’s launch
license.
Eric Berger tweeted “The FAA has authorized the next three launches of SpaceX's Starship
prototype.
‘The agency approved multiple launches because SpaceX is making few changes to the launch
vehicle and relied on the FAA’s approved methodology to calculate the risk to the public.’”
In addition to this, he also posted a tweet saying “‘As a condition of the SpaceX
license, an FAA safety inspector is required to be on site in Boca Chica, Texas, for all
Starship launches.
The FAA safety inspector is expected to arrive on site on April 29 to support a possible
launch this week.’”
There is a tweet about Starlink authorisation for Starship.
It says “The FCC has just released an "Experimental Authorization" to operate a single Starlink
terminal in Boca Chica (max altitude 41,000 ft).
It will be effective from April 28th to June 28th.”
There was a closure for Friday where SpaceX looked to be gearing up for a fight before
it was cancelled.
As of now, no new dates have been added for a possible flight test.
Even though there are no road and beach closures, the FAA has posted temporary flight restrictions
to their website.
There is a TFR for tomorrow, Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th, so we could see a test flight
this coming week hopefully.
Starship SN16 is progressing at pace as it’s now fully stacked in the high bay.
Starship SN17’s nosecone is almost ready inside the tent, with the nosecone barrel
section with lead-ins and lots of heat shield tiles outside.
As always, thank you to Mary, known as BocaChicaGal, who’s out in Boca Chica all day, every day
filming the amazing content.
Plus, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working hard behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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