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A little later on today, not long after this video goes up, there will be another Falcon
9 launch.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the launch of Nilesat-301 is scheduled for today
at 9:04pm UTC or 5:04pm EDT.
There was also another cargo resupply launch scheduled for Friday.
Then, I read this article that was posted about the cargo Dragon mission being postponed.
It says “NASA and SpaceX have postponed the launch of a cargo Dragon mission to the
International Space Station after discovering a potential propellant leak in the spacecraft’s
thrusters.
In a statement June 6, NASA said the launch of the CRS-25 mission, which had been scheduled
for June 10, would be postponed after detecting “elevated vapor readings” of monomethyl
hydrazine in a portion of the spacecraft’s Draco thruster system.
The cause of the elevated reading is under investigation.”
Something to share is that there was an article posted about the Starlink IPO.
It says “Elon Musk last week told SpaceX employees the company isn’t likely to take
its Starlink satellite internet business public until 2025 or later, CNBC has learned, extending
the estimated timeline for an initial public offering yet again.”
There was an interesting article posted saying “A spare satellite for Globalstar’s data
relay and messaging constellation will launch from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 rocket later
this month, multiple sources said, in a previously-undisclosed mission on SpaceX’s schedule.”
There was a really cool video posted by Elon Musk on Twitter saying “Deck from SpaceX
all-hands update talk I gave last week.”
There are some cool things that are shown in this video, particularly the Starlink pez
dispenser system and how it will work.
Included in the video was a shot of Raptor 2s installed on Booster 7.
There’s also a cool view of how the Starfactory will look and also the factory at the Cape.
Somebody posted a screenshot of the Starship pez dispenser in action.
Musk responded and said “Maybe we should make an actual Starship model that dispenses
pez for our merch store.”
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s the orbital launch site.
Work has been continuing on the orbital launch mount.
Work has been going on with suborbital Pad B recently as well.
There was an interesting Tweet posted by Starbase deliveries about propellant deliveries to
the orbital tank farm.
It says “Here is the 100th LCH4 delivery to the Orbital Tank Farm - The 54th since
the five new horizontal tanks are functional.”
Eric Ralph captioned it and said “Just the 54 in the last few weeks should be ~1000 tons
or more - plenty for the first full Super Heavy wet dress rehearsal and/or a whole lot
of static fires!”
Over in the production yard, here you can see Starfactory progressing.
This new structure has been spotted going up near the yard recently.
The mystery box, now known to be a possible loading device for Starship’s pez dispenser
was moved.
Julia Bergeron posted this Tweet with a picture of foundation work going on at Roberts Road
for the Megabay.
She said in the Tweet “The foundation at the Cape Mega Bay is being poured and the
tower segments are getting some finer details.”
This new section for a test tank was spotted being worked on.
Engineers worked on Starship 24 after some more cryogenic proof testing.
There were also engineers seen replacing heat shield tiles.
Here’s a view of Ship 24 prior to testing.
Starship 24 performed another cryo proof test on Monday.
Then, there was a cryo and thrust simulator test on Tuesday as well.
Looking at the Cameron County website, with the closures on Monday and Tuesday utilised,
there is one more date.
There’s still a possible closure for today, Wednesday 8th for some further testing of
Ship 24.
Here’s a view of Starship 25 sections inside the Highbay as stacking progresses.
The stacked Super Heavy Booster 8 Liquid Oxygen tank was moved into the Megabay.
Here it is next to Booster 7 which continues to have Raptor engines installed.
As always, I have to say thank you to Mary, otherwise known as BocaChicaGal for being
out there filming the Boca Chica content.
Also, thank you to Nic Ansuini for filming some of the Boca Chica content in this video
too.
As well, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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