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On Tuesday, SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites with their first launch
from Vandenberg in a while.
[SpaceX commentator: “Zero.
Liftoff!”]
The booster which launched, B1049, landed successfully on the Of Course I Still Love
You droneship, becoming the 2nd booster to launch and land for a 10th time.
[SpaceX commentator: “As you can see from that beautiful view, of stage 1, having landed
on our droneship for the 10th time.”]
We’ll also take a look at the next SpaceX launch coming up in just a matter of hours
with Dragon’s first all civilian mission.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the Inspiration4 mission is scheduled to liftoff
at 2 minutes past midnight UTC or 8:02pm EDT.
Inspiration4 posted a Tweet of the Falcon 9 and Dragon sitting on the launch pad with
a confirmation of the launch time.
They said “With the Inspiration4 launch now just 3 days away, weather conditions are
70% favorable and we’ve narrowed our launch window to 5 hours beginning at 8:02 pm EDT
on September 15th.”
SpaceX posted a Tweet saying “SpaceX completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities
with the Inspiration4 crew.”
SpaceX also posted a Tweet with some cool shots of the Inspiration4 crew with their
spacesuits on.
NASASpaceflight posted an article on their website related to another payload which SpaceX
will launch.
It says “Spaceflight Inc has announced “GEO Pathfinder,” a rideshare mission to geostationary
orbit that will use a lunar flyby.
The mission will use a Sherpa EScape transfer vehicle, launched as a secondary payload with
Intuitive Machines‘ IM-2 mission to the moon.”
Michael Sheetz posted a Tweet with a picture of a Falcon Heavy side booster that rolled
past the press centre at Kennedy Space Centre.
Over in Boca Chica, the work on the chopstick catching arms is continuing over at the launch
site.
The orbital launch mount work has been continuing, with Booster 4 currently sitting atop.
Here’s a view of the possible quick disconnect arm extension being constructed.
The ground fabrication building is currently being extended.
Jeff Foust posted a Tweet saying “NASA announces the winners of $146 million in NextSTEP Appendix
N awards for ‘sustainable human landing system concepts’: Blue Origin, Lockheed,
Northrop, Dynetics and SpaceX.”
This bulkhead stack for the ground support equipment tank, GSE-8 was flipped.
Work continues with replacing the Starship 20 heat shield tiles, but they look much much
better than before.
They’re also continuing to prepare Ship 20 for testing.
We can hopefully expect some Super Heavy Booster 4 testing soon, as Musk mentioned in a Tweet
last week.
Looking at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, we can see that
there are a few dates for possible testing.
Originally, they had a primary closure date of Friday 17th, but that has since been cancelled,
with the primary date now Monday 20th.
Then, there’s also a backup date of Tuesday 21st for some possible Booster 4 testing.
Here’s a view of the Booster 5 upper bulkhead stack that we saw sleeved last episode.
The Super Heavy Booster 5 prototype is continuing to grow in the High Bay as they stack sections.
Another Booster 5 ring stack was seen sitting outside.
This common dome stack for Super Heavy Booster 6 was spotted out in the yard.
Once again, this video, I have to thank Nic Ansuini who has been out in Boca Chica filming
the content.
Also, Mary has returned to filming Boca Chica content, so thanks to her as well for being
out there capturing the action.
Then, as always, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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