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Gavin Cornwell posted a Tweet saying “Something appears to not be fully right with ASOG, Doug
and B1061 from the latest Starlink mission.
After departing the LZ, Doug appears to have had to come back.
The whole convoy has now sailed towards north of Nassau (Not towards Port Canaveral) and
is completely stopped.”
There was an article posted last week saying “Launcher, an industry-leading developer
of highly efficient rockets and transfer vehicles, has signed a new multi-launch contract with
SpaceX.
The agreement adds three new missions to the expanding flight manifest of Orbiter, Launcher’s
transfer vehicle.”
There was a post on the SpaceX website that I thought I would share.
It says “On Thursday, February 3, Falcon 9 launched 49 Starlink satellites to low Earth
orbit from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Unfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted by a
geomagnetic storm on Friday.
The Starlink team commanded the satellites into a safe-mode where they would fly edge-on
(like a sheet of paper) to minimize drag—to effectively ‘take cover from the storm’.
Preliminary analysis show the increased drag at the low altitudes prevented the satellites
from leaving safe-mode to begin orbit raising maneuvers, and up to 40 of the satellites
will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere.”
Heading over to Boca Chica, here’s the orbital launch site where there’s been loads of
work.
Crews have been seen working on the Starship quick disconnect arm.
Work continues on the construction of the Wide Bay in the production yard.
A bridge crane was spotted delivered, possibly for the Wide Bay.
This long pipe was seen lifted inside the High Bay.
With the exciting news of the Starship presentation tomorrow, Teslarati posted this Tweet.
It says “SpaceX preparing the ultimate backdrop for Elon Musk's Starship presentation.”
Musk responded and said “As backdrops go, this is a good one.”
This nosecone barrel section was seen being scrapped.
This Starship downcomer with an anti-vortex device was spotted delivered.
Engineers have been seen working on Ship 20’s quick disconnect.
LabPadre posted this picture of the chopstick catching arms giving Starship 20 a hug as
SpaceX prepares to stack the prototype atop Booster 4.
As of recording this video, Ship 20 has yet to be lifted but I would expect that it will
likely happen at some point today.
In fact, half an hour before recording this video, Trevor Mahlmann posted this Tweet.
It says “Orbital Pad in Boca Chica has been cleared for Ship 20 operations, as heard over
the loudspeaker.
It’s full stack day!”
The Starship 22 body continues to be worked on in the Mid Bay.
In preparation for the Starship presentation tomorrow, Super Heavy Booster 4 was lifted
onto the orbital launch mount.
A Twitter account called Boca’s Brain posted a really cool picture of Super Heavy Booster
4’s underside in the orbital launch mount.
The booster quick disconnect has been connected to B4.
Booster 4 was seen being grabbed by the Starship QD arm claws.
Although there likely won’t be any testing before Thursday, I thought I would share the
road and beach closures regardless.
You can see there are closures currently posted on the Cameron County website for today, tomorrow
Thursday 10th and Friday 11th.
As well as that, closures have also been added for next week with Monday 14th and Tuesday
15th.
The Booster 6 test tank was seen being moved at the production site.
Finally for today’s video, once again, thanks to Brendan Lewis, we have a new Starbase production
diagram to take a look at.
As always, thank you to both Mary, known as BocaChicaGal, as well as Nic Ansuini for being
out there filming the Boca Chica content.
Also, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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