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Early yesterday morning, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket with the Starlink 4-12 mission.
The booster which launched this mission, B1051, landed successfully for the 12th time on the
droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “There, you can see on your screen, Falcon 9 has touched down
for this Booster’s 12th time.
This marks our 104th successful recovery of a Falcon 9 first stage!”]
Of course SpaceX posted a Tweet saying “This is the first time a Falcon 9 first stage has
launched and landed 12 times!”
Elon Musk posted a picture of the deployment of the Starlink satellites referencing a SpaceX
Tweet about deployment.
He added some information by saying “Also the heaviest Falcon 9 payload at 16.25 metric
tons.”
There was some further news of more Starlink terminals delivered to Ukraine.
There was another Tweet posted in relation to the Starlink terminals in Ukraine.
It says “A person familiar with Starlink’s effort in Ukraine, speaking on the condition
of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said there are more than 5,000 terminals in
the country.”
Heading over to Boca Chica, here’s a great view of the orbital launch site.
Crews have continued to work on the orbital launch mount as they prepared for testing.
Plumbing work has been seen going on with the new Methane tanks.
The Starship quick disconnect was seen connecting to Starship 20.
The work on the Wide Bay in the production yard has been continuing as always.
This new structure has been spotted being constructed at the production site.
This new self propelled modular transporter was seen being assembled.
Something really cool was added outside the Brownsville airport.
John Randolph posted some pictures of work being done with a Starship flap being installed
outside Brownsville airport.
This flap is from Starship SN8 which flew but failed to land, so cool that they’ve
put it on display.
Somebody called Farrielle has posted some great shots from a flyover of the Roberts
Road facility that SpaceX owns at Cape Canaveral.
They also posted some more pictures with some closeups of the progress at pad LC-39A.
The progress of launch infrastructure for Starship at the Cape is going immensely fast.
This screenshot from one of the photos posted by Farrielle shows how the progress of the
launch integration tower segments is coming along.
Somebody called Zack Golden posted a caption saying “This would be Section 1 of the OLIT
being constructed.
The ‘bump stop’ for the chopsticks can be seen here in this image.
This is the first noticeable design change to the new Starship Orbital Launch Tower!
Also note that the carriage rails are pre-installed this time!”
Launch photographer Ryan Bale also posted a shot of the launch tower segments at the
Cape in Florida.
This new Starship aft section was flipped in the yard after being sleeved.
Here’s a view of a load of domes waiting to be sleeved in the yard.
Crews have been seen working inside a Super Heavy header tank.
Work has continued to be done on the Starship 22 prototype.
During the week, we had a Starship first with the first full stack Starship cryogenic proof
test.
SpaceX posted some amazing drone shots of the Super Heavy Booster 4 and Ship 20 full
stack testing that took place.
Also during the week, SpaceX did a full stack propellant loading test.
After a few days of being stacked and some tests later, Ship 20 and B4 are now destacked
again.
Taking a look at the upcoming road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, a
bunch of new dates have been added.
They utilised some of the dates last week but have new dates for this coming week, with
Monday 21st through Friday 25th scheduled for possible testing.
As always, I have to say thank you to both Mary, or BocaChicaGal, and Nic Ansuini for
being out there filming the amazing Starbase content.
Also, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working hard behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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