Hello, we are TheSpaceXFans and welcome to TheSpaceXShow, the place where you can stay
up to date with everything SpaceX. This video, we have a whole load of updates to cover to
do with SpaceX with a variety of information. We also have a few but not a huge amount of
Boca Chica and Starship updates to look at. Let’s head straight in and get up to date…
NASA Commercial Crew posted a tweet saying “The Flight Readiness Review for the Crew-1
mission to the Space Station has concluded, and NASA and SpaceX are GO to proceed with
launch on Nov. 14!” Lift off is currently expected for 12:49am UTC or 7:49pm EDT. SpaceX
tweeted a bunch of cool shots of Crew Dragon Resilience and Falcon 9 integrated in the
hangar at the pad. Somebody posted a tweet saying that the other boosters in the hangar
are B1049, B1051, and B1058, 1058 being for CRS-21. After integration, SpaceX rolled the
rocket out to the pad, also sharing some cool shots of the vehicle vertical on LC-39A. Whilst
not directly related to SpaceX, Jim Bridenstine will be stepping down from his role as NASA
administrator. Apparently, even if asked by the President-elect Biden administration to
stay, he will pass. Eric Berger posted a tweet saying “New report finds the Lunar Gateway
likely will not be in a position to support a 2024 lunar landing. Which is ok, because
there won't be a 2024 lunar landing. Will be interesting to see if Gateway survives
the transition.” He then also tweeted “If you're looking at this from SpaceX's perspective,
you're definitely on Team Gateway. SpaceX has as much as $7 billion riding on logistics
delivery (only about $300,000 of this contract has been paid so far) as well as launching
initial elements of the Gateway itself.” The U.S Department of Defence posted some
contracts which include SpaceX. The post says “SpaceX has been awarded $29.6 million in
firm-fixed-price task orders under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.”
We now have a few Boca Chica updates to look at starting with this view of the orbital
launch mount being constructed. They seem to have attached cameras to one of the legs.
Mary also captured this awesome shot of the launch pad area from a bit further away than
usual. Over on the other side of the facility, there was a new arrival at the old gas well
lot with this new piece of equipment. This is interesting, a metal panel was seen which
says integration team training panel, so when SpaceX hires new people they don’t
go messing up any new Starships. We have a bunch of Starship stuff to take a look at.
First we have a tweet from Eric Berger about a newly posted article from NASA. He says
“Interesting, small new grants from NASA announced today. They include funds to Blue
Origin for a "space robot operating system," Phase Four for electrical propulsion, and
SpaceX for Starship reentry heating data.” Everyday Astronaut tweeted asking Musk about
his gut feeling on Starship being able to fulfill the goal of full and rapid reusability.
Also saying “I still have such a hard time imagining a booster landing, being picked
up, refueled and launch again on the next orbit.” Musk responded with “Am hoping
to change booster design to land back on launch mount with no legs. Will require extreme precision.”
Elon Musk responded to somebody’s animation of Starship re-entering the atmosphere and
landing. He said “There’s no entry/braking burn & hypersonic angle of attack is approximately
70 degrees.” In response Scott Manley asked “With a 70 degree AoA how much cross range
does it have? Will it be enough to ensure at least one landing opportunity per day?”
Musk said “Probably.” Michael Sheetz tweeted about something Gwynne Shotwell said which
was “the company has looked at the "space tug" part of the launch market (also known
as orbital transfer vehicles), adding that she's "really excited about Starship to be
able to do this," as it's the "perfect market opportunity for Starship." Shotwell also said
“With missions increasingly including small satellites, "it's going to be very important
to come up with the ability to have multiple node crossings on a single launch. And we
can do that to some extent with Falcon 9; it's kind of a beast of a rocket." In the
production area of the facility, SpaceX recently took delivery of another Raptor engine, this
is serial number 42. We recently saw a new thrust puck with a different design and nearby
there are some new aerosurface covers. We have some bits of Starships spotted under
construction with a couple of nosecones seen being worked on in the fabrication tent. It
appears that this nose in front may get some canards soon. On Monday, SpaceX got quite
far into the testing window and appeared to be getting ready for a static fire with SN8.
The prototype was seen detanking and with pretty much no time left in the window there
was no static fire test. It’s believed this could have just been a wet dress rehearsal.
On Tuesday, the road closed and pad cleared during the day and towards the late afternoon,
SpaceX appeared to have aborted their first static fire attempt. Their second attempt
on the other hand definitely happened but didn’t look entirely norminal. This second
static fire was the first to utilise the nosecone Liquid Oxygen header tank and they lit just
1 engine. Just a quick look at the road and beach closures from Cameron County, there’s
been a slight change to the dates. With the static fire happening last night, they’ve
cancelled today’s testing with more dates on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th. Here’s
the latest view of the SN9 Starship prototype continuing to be worked on in the high bay.
We have some really cool news with the first Super Heavy booster ring stack being moved
over to the high bay. It was then lifted and placed inside the structure alongside Starship
SN9. Then, another barrel section was rolled over to the high bay from the collection of
ring stacks. Subsequently, this stack was also lifted and moved into the high bay ready
to be stacked. Finally, whilst it’s not entirely the latest build, here's the latest
diagram from Brendan Lewis containing the sections known for Super Heavy. As always,
I have to thank the incredible Mary, known as BocaChicaGal who goes out and films all
day every day. Behind the scenes and also hosting lengthy livestreams are the NASASpaceflight
team, thanks to them also. That’s it for this episode of TheSpaceXShow, I hope you
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