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We’ll kick off this video by taking a look at the upcoming launch of the very delayed
Starlink-17 mission.
It should lift off tomorrow at 1:37am UTC or today at 8:37pm EDT.
There’s a new article from BusinessWire about the Inspiration4 mission launching in
2022.
It says “Inspiration4, the world’s first all-civilian mission to space, today announced
the independent panel of judges tasked with helping select a deserving entrepreneur to
join the historic mission’s four-person crew later this year.”
The r/SpaceX Subreddit posted a tweet inviting the current members of the Inspiration4 crew
to join an AMA or ask me anything session.
Jared Isaacman responded and said “We are in.”
Stephen Clark who is a journalist for SpaceFlightNow posted a tweet with some Human Landing System
information.
His post says “NASA’s Mark Kirasich says the agency hopes to select “up to two”
Human Landing System contractors “hopefully within the next few weeks … We’re getting
down to the wire.”
He also posted another HLS tweet which said “NASA’s Mark Kirasich: All three HLS teams
assembled low fidelity mockups during the last 10 months.
SpaceX also assembled and demonstrated their Starship elevator concept ‘in a very short
period of time.’”
NASA’s commercial crew Twitter account recently posted a tweet about Crew-1.
It said “The SpaceX Crew Dragon has officially been in space for more than 100 days!
The Crew-1 mission launched on Nov. 15, 2020 & arrived at the Space Station on Nov. 16,
carrying Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Soichi Noguchi.
They will return in late April/early May.”
Elon Musk posted a tweet recently which said “You might see much higher download speeds
on Starlink at times.
Testing system upgrades.”
In response, he was asked a few questions with the first being “When will it come
to the Bay?
Still end of 2021.”
Musk responded with “Probably mid year, but Starlink is really meant for those who
are least served.
Bay usually has great Internet.”
There was another tweet asking “Ever consider a mini Starlink designed around portability?”
Musk responded and said “Sounds like a good idea.”
Over in Boca Chica, the orbital launch site work is continuing.
The orbital launch pad structure being constructed in the yard is coming together.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen SpaceX’s robotic dog, Zeus, doing anything.
However, Jack Beyer posted a video of Zeus who recently went to inspect the landing pad
as SpaceX teams work on it.
For Starship, a new upper bulkhead was recently sleeved.
Another bulkhead labelled GSE 1 forward was sleeved with a 2 ring stack, possibly a test
tank?
Another new forward flap for a nosecone was delivered.
A ring stack was seen being moved around in the yard.
Then there was another ring stack seen being moved over to their collection.
Look at this crazy amount of Starship and Super Heavy sections they have sitting outside.
There was another new delivery with this Raptor engine spotted.
Yusaku Maezawa who contributed a lot of money towards Starship and will be flying around
the Moon on a Starship in a matter of years created a new English Twitter account.
He posted a tweet saying “Wanna fly to the Moon with me??
Big update coming March 2nd.”
Looking at the SN10 Starship prototype which has been tested recently in preparation for
a flight, Musk posted a cool shot.
We saw last episode that they had performed the first static fire of this vehicle earlier
in the week.
After a suspect engine during the first static fire, a Raptor was swapped out in record time.
SN10 performed her 2nd static fire on Thursday.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures, with no flight on Friday, the closure was
cancelled.
However, there is now a new primary date of tomorrow, March 1st for the possible SN10
fight with a backup closure on Tuesday.
Then, taking a look at the temporary flight restrictions posted by the FAA, the closures
for later in the week were cancelled.
Then, TFRs were added for tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday with unlimited altitude for
the flight test.
So hopefully we will see a flight as soon as tomorrow, very exciting!
SN11 is still waiting in the high bay for its own rounds of testing.
The nosecone for SN15 has been stacked with it lacking both flaps and a header tank.
Somebody posted a tweet with a picture of all the Starship serial number nosecones when
they were stacked.
Felix from What About It retweeted it and posted “All nose cone stacks from SpaceX's
Starship SN8 to SN15.
Note, on SN15 the very tip of the nose cone was missing and there was no work done at
all to prepare for flap attachment prior to stacking!”
Finally for the Sunday video, as always, we have the Starship and Super Heavy build diagram
thanks to Brendan Lewis.
It goes without saying but these detailed Starship updates wouldn’t be possible without
Mary, or BocaChicaGal out there constantly filming so thank you.
Also, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working hard behind the scenes to provide
us their great videos, livestreams and other space content.
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