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There were a series of interesting Tweets posted by SpaceX yesterday.
The first says “Today marks the 10th anniversary of completion of the COTS Demo Flight 2 – Dragon’s
first mission to and from the Space Station.”
Next they posted “Dragon successfully docked with the orbiting lab on May 25, becoming
the first privately developed vehicle in history to successfully attach to the space station.”
There were some further Tweets saying “Six days later, Dragon departed the Space Station
and began its return to Earth.”
As well as that, they said “Now, ten years later, SpaceX has a reusable Dragon fleet
capable of supporting both crew and cargo missions.”
On Monday, the National Air and Science Museum posted a Tweet about the 2 year anniversary
of Crew Dragon Endeavour.
It says “Two years ago today, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched to the
ISS on board Crew Dragon ‘Endeavour,’ NASA’s first human spaceflight from American
soil since the Space Shuttle retired.”
Heading over to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the launch site.
Crews have done a bit of work on the suborbital launch site pad B mount.
The work to complete the Megabay roof is continuing.
Also in the production yard, work is continuing on the Starfactory production building.
Chris Bergin posted a Tweet with information from the FAA about the Starship environmental
assessment.
It says ‘The FAA intends to issue the Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA)
for the SpaceX Starship / Super Heavy project on June 13, 2022.
Interagency consultation is ongoing.
The completion of the PEA will not guarantee that the FAA will issue a launch license.’”
Somebody posted a Tweet in reference to the environmental assessment.
They said “The comments have been released.
All 19000 of them.”
There’s an article posted saying “A judge is expected to hear a lawsuit June 1 concerning
access restrictions to a South Texas beach amid SpaceX activities for the Starship program.”
This Booster header tank that appears to have been repurposed was spotted.
This Starship flap aerocover was spotted in the yard.
Musk was asked on Twitter “What's the status on the Sabatier fuel plant?
Has SpaceX started working on the ISRU plant that'll be responsible for producing fuel
to be used by Starship on Mars?”
He responded with “Still early stages on that.
Getting Starship reliably to orbit, then achieving full & immediate reusability of both stages
is by far top priority.”
In reference to a recent Everyday Astronaut video touring Starbase, Tim Dodd said “Next
time, we’ve got to do it when there’s a fully stacked Starship there!”
Musk responded and said “Only a few weeks away.
All Raptor 2 engines needed for first orbital flight are complete & being installed.”
In reference to a Tweet about the capabilities of Starship with an infographic of a bunch
of rockets, Musk responded.
He said “The specs on Wikipedia aren’t quite right, but close enough.
Thrust, liftoff mass, length & payload will grow over time.”
There was another Tweet posted saying “Starship if launched fully reusable will get ~150 tons
of payload to orbit.
Starship if launched expendable can get ~250 tons of payload to orbit.
Why does the expendability increase the payload to orbit by this much?”
Musk responded and said “The amazing part will be having an orbital rocket that is fully
& rapidly reusable with any payload at all!
Everyone else gave up when they realised that their fully reusable payload was less than
0.
We still have a long way to go.”
Work has been continuing at the top of the old Ship 16 prototype.
Here’s a view of Ship 24 at the launch site.
Crews have been working on the prototype since it performed some proof testing.
Starship Gazer posted some pictures on Twitter of crews working on the Starship 24 prototype
after the broken pipe.
He said “Workers installed a new section of pipe with expansion loops in Starship 24
today to replace the section destroyed during Friday's testing and they also removed this
straight section.”
Looking at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, there is a closure
scheduled for today.
In addition, there are possible closures for tomorrow, Thursday 2nd, and Friday 3rd.
Work on the new nosecone, possibly for Ship 25, has been continuing.
This nosecone has since been moved out of the tent.
The Booster 8 engine section was moved out of a tent into the Highbay for stacking.
Musk was asked by Everyday Astronaut about what we can expect to see with some of the
first Booster 7 static fire testing.
He Tweeted “I really can’t wait to see the first Super Heavy static fire!
Question is: will they do all 33 engines at once or just inner ring / outer ring static
fires?”
Musk responded with “Just one at a time at first.”
As always, I have to say thanks to Mary, known as BocaChicaGal 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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