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Starting off today’s video, there is yet another Falcon 9 launch with the Crew-4 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Zero.
Ignition.
And liftoff.
Go Falcon, go Freedom.
Godspeed Crew-4.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1067, then landed successfully for the 4th time
on the droneship A Shortfall Of Gravitas.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Fantastic view of the first stage.
Landing legs have been deployed.
Returning back to Earth for a 4th time.
Just like that, a 4th landing as part of the Crew-4 mission.
You can hear the applause behind us.”]
In addition to there being another astronaut launch on a Crew Dragon capsule, there was
a return from the ISS as well.
Axiom posted some pictures of the crew of their Ax-1 mission as they exited the Crew
Dragon capsule having returned home safely.
With all the Crew Dragon launches, I want to share this Tweet from an NSF editor about
the Dragon capsules SpaceX has.
They have a cargo capsule under construction and 2 operational being refurbished, as well
as 4 operational Crew Dragons now with the launch of Crew-4.
There is another launch coming up this week with yet another Starlink mission scheduled
to lift off.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the Starlink 4-16 mission is scheduled to lift
off on Friday 29th at 9:33pm UTC or 5:33pm EDT.
There was an interesting Tweet posted by Hawaiian Airlines related to Starlink.
They said “We're proud to be the 1st major U.S. airline to select SpaceX’s Starlink,
which will provide the best internet connectivity in the air — free for our guests.
Stay connected from the comfort of your seat.
This is the future of flying.”
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the launch site.
SpaceX did some testing of the chopstick catching arms recently.
Work has been going on with the Starship quick disconnect arm.
Plumbing work has been going on at the orbital tank farm recently.
There’s been a whole bunch of propellant deliveries to the orbital tank farm.
Of course, work also continues with the orbital launch mount.
Crews continue to prepare the Pad A mount at the suborbital launch site.
Work has been going on with this new Booster transport mount.
Here’s a view of the Mega Bay as work continues.
More stairs were also lowered inside.
Starfactory has been continuing to progress in the yard.
Elon Musk posted this awesome picture of a whole load of Raptor 2 engines at Starbase.
He said “Raptor 2 rocket engines at Starbase, each producing over half a million pounds
(230 tons) of force.”
The Starship 24 upper ring stack was moved inside the High Bay.
These Booster propellant transfer tubes were delivered.
You probably don’t know but Booster 7’s downcomer pipe was damaged recently.
I don’t want to directly share the photo as it was leaked and not authorised and it’s
also now removed from most places as a result.
However, here’s a part of an article about the leaked image where you can see the damage.
It looks like SpaceX will be possibly fixing Booster 7.
With the partial Booster 8 Liquid Oxygen tank outside, crews have continued working on it.
As always, I have to say thank you to Mary, also known as BocaChicaGal for being out there
filming the Starbase content.
Also, thank you to Nic Ansuini who was out there too, filming some of the Starbase content
in this video.
As well, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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