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Earlier this morning, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket with a Starlink payload for
the Starlink 4-18 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Full power.
And liftoff!”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1052, then landed successfully for the 5th time
on the droneship A Shortfall Of Gravitas.
[SpaceX Commentator: “The landing legs will deploy here shortly, let’s see if Falcon
9 can touch down.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Incredible view there.
As you can see on your screen, Falcon 9 has touched down on our drone ship, A Shortfall
Of Gravitas.
Now this marks the 121st overall recovery of a Falcon booster.”]
Thought I would share this article saying “Uzbekistan is trying to woo Starlink and
OneWeb to bring their satellite broadband services to Central Asia’s most populous
country.
Ranking officials recently met with the Starlink and OneWeb representatives in the country’s
capital, Tashkent, asking for their satellite broadband services to be made available in
Uzbekistan.”
Eric Berger posted an interesting Tweet saying “SpaceX is now about 85 percent vertically
integrated, sources say.
This is not entirely by choice, but as supply chain problems have arisen the company has
reevaluated work that had previously been out-sourced, and brought some of it in-house.”
There’s an article about a Falcon Heavy launch that has been pushed back a tad bit.
It says “In March, EchoStar announced its Hughes Network system had selected SpaceX
to launch the Maxar-built Jupiter-3 geostationary communications satellite during an industry
conference.
During that announcement, the company said the satellite would launch in the fourth quarter
of 2022.
Now, due to delays to numerous Maxar spacecraft, the satellite will launch no earlier than
‘early 2023.’”
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital launch site.
Crews continue to work on the chopstick catching arms.
Further work has also been continuing with the structural test stand.
As well as that, work continues on the orbital launch mount.
A new gate has been installed at the launch site.
This new SPMT was spotted delivered.
The Megabay is near enough complete at this point with 2 prototypes inside as well.
Somebody by the name of Farielle flew over the Roberts Road facility in Florida and posted
some pictures of the progress.
SpaceX now have 5 of the orbital launch integration tower segments pretty much ready.
I believe they’re also doing groundwork for a building to be constructed.
The chopped off Ship 16 nose was sitting outside the Megabay.
As you probably expected, the nosecone is now being scrapped.
Also, the tank section has been moved out of the Megabay.
Ship 24 is continuing to be worked on inside the Highbay.
Starship 24 has now received body flaps.
A Starship Liquid Oxygen stack was spotted that will be for either Ship 25 or Ship 26.
Raptor 2’s have started being moved into the Megabay for B7 installation.
The Booster 8 Liquid Oxygen tank section was moved back into the Highbay.
This section was then stacked with another Liquid Oxygen section in the Highbay.
As always, I have to say thanks to both Mary, or BocaChicaGal and Nic Ansuini for being
out there filming the Starbase content.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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