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SpaceX posted a cool video on Twitter on Monday.
They captioned it with “Today we celebrate the founding of SpaceX and 20 years of accomplishments
by this incredible team—here’s to creating a future that we can all get excited about.”
I wanted to share this Tweet from Musk saying “Tesla & SpaceX are seeing significant recent
inflation pressure in raw materials & logistics.”
There was an article posted saying “Starlink is currently embroiled in a battle at the
FCC, where its competitors are requesting the Commission to deny an application to use
SpaceX's Starship next-generation launch vehicle system for launches instead of the operational
Falcon 9 lineup.”
It also mentions that Starlink satellite production capacity sits at 45 satellites per week.
Something else the article says is “It also shared a key safety feature called 'ducking'
through which the satellites retract their solar panels to take a flat shape.”
Plus, there were some other things that were mentioned.
Jeff Foust posted a Tweet related to Crew Dragon about something NASA ISS program manager
Joel Montalbano said.
The Tweet says “Montalbano says NASA is still planning to swap Soyuz and Crew Dragon
seats in the fall, with cosmonauts training soon in Houston and Hawthorne and astronauts
in Star City.”
Here’s the next launch which we can hopefully expect in a few days with another Starlink
mission scheduled.
The Starlink 4-12 mission is expected to lift off on Saturday 19th at 2:55am UTC or Friday
at 10:55pm EDT.
Something to point out with this launch is it’s the first time a Booster will be launched
and landed for the 12th time.
There was a Tweet posted about a Teslarati article saying “Elon Musk’s Starlink was
Ukraine’s most downloaded app last Sunday.”
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital launch site.
The chopstick catching arms were seen being raised.
Like usual, work continues on the orbital launch mount.
Crews were seen working on the Ship quick disconnect mechanism.
Some deliveries have been spotted to the orbital tank farm recently.
Work has been continuing on the new Wide Bay with it getting closer to completion.
Concrete work has been seen going on at the production site recently.
There was an article posted related to the FAA review for Starship in Boca Chica.
It says “U.S. Reps.
Filemon Vela and Vicente Gonzalez can help ensure Elon Musk does not pull SpaceX out
of Brownsville, says the chairman of Brownsville Navigation District.
Sergio Tito Lopez said BND leaders have been in touch with the two South Texas congressmen
to see what they can do to help ensure the Federal Aviation Administration gives environmental
approval to SpaceX’s for its continued rocket testing operations at Boca Chica.”
Whilst not containing any pictures, I wanted to share this Tweet from Chris B at NASASpaceflight
in reference to a video.
He said “Starship's KSC launch pad progress with concrete poured for the launch/catch
tower while tower segment build and Starship factory groundwork continues near Roberts
Road.”
This new design of dome, which I believe is flatter, has been spotted outside.
This new Booster aft section was seen being flipped in the yard.
Ship 20 was recently moved inside the chopsticks in preparation to be lifted.
Once again, SpaceX have stacked the Starship 20 prototype atop Booster 4.
You can never get bored of seeing a fully stacked Starship, just beautiful.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, the closures
for today and tomorrow are still scheduled.
So, maybe we could see some testing of a fully stacked Starship soon?
As well as the dates for today and tomorrow, a new closure has been added for Friday 18th.
Plus there are dates for next week with Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd.
Here’s a view of the Ship 24 nosecone barrel section and nosecone.
The nosecone has now been moved outside the fabrication tent.
Finally for the video today, once again, we have an updated Starbase production diagram
thanks to Brendan Lewis.
As always, I have to say thanks to both Mary, known as 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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