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On Wednesday, we had another launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the rideshare mission, Transporter-5.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Zero.
Ignition.
And liftoff.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1061, then landed successfully for the 8th time
on the landing pad at LZ-1.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Stage 1 landing burn.
Alright, you can see that landing burn has begun.
Just before Falcon 9 lands, we’re expecting shutdown of the mVac second stage.
Just after landing, one of our 59 spacecraft that will not separate from the vehicle will
activate, and you should hear that callout over the nets.
Let’s listen in for these activities happening in quick sequential order.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
mVac shutdown.
Stage 1 landing confirmed.
Nominal orbital insertion.”]
Musk posted a Tweet saying “Starlink approved by The Philippines.”
SpaceX captioned another Tweet by Musk saying “Starlink approved by Nigeria & Mozambique.”
They said “First two countries in Africa with Starlink regulatory approval; Starlink
is now licensed on all seven continents!”
SpaceX has got more missions to launch for the US government per a document released.
It says in reference to the missions, “three to SpaceX for USSF-124, USSF-62, and one SDA-Tranche
1 mission using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.”
Michael Sheetz posted a Tweet saying “SpaceX told the FCC in a presentation last week that
its Starlink satellite internet now has over 400,000 subscribers.
That's up ~60% from March's update of 250,000.”
Heading over to Boca Chica, here’s the orbital launch mount.
The Booster Quick Disconnect cover extension was removed.
These temporary buildings are being installed at the suborbital launch site.
The work to finish the Megabay is continuing in the production yard.
Work on the white mystery box is also continuing.
On the left here is an interesting barrel section labelled Edome which is not something
seen before.
The edome section was seen being moved.
Here’s a view of the nosecones inside the fabrication tent.
A Ship 16 body flap was removed.
During the last week, the Starship 24 prototype was rolled to the launch site.
SpaceX posted some incredible pictures on Twitter of the Starship 24 prototype rolling
to the launch site.
Kevin Randolph posted a picture on Twitter of the payload bay door, known as the pez
dispenser, that will allow the Starlink satellites to be deployed.
He noted how much cleaner it looks now compared with previously.
It’s definitely looking a lot more ready.
SpaceX performed some ambient proof testing of Starship 24 some days ago.
During this testing, Ship 24 lost some heat shield tiles.
Marcus House posted a picture on Twitter by Starship Gazer of some missing tiles on the
Ship 24 prototype.
He said “A big pop noise on the SpaceX Starship 24 test, saw a bunch of tiles fluttering to
the ground.
Here are those missing tiles mostly on the left upper side (or right depending on which
way you prefer).”
Starship Gazer posted a picture on Twitter with the caption “Workers just removed a
very bent section of pipe from Starship 24.
Perhaps related to the bang noise and tiles falling off during cryo testing this morning?”
Looking at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, there are a bunch
of possible closures coming up.
This coming week, there is a possible closure on Tuesday 31st and a closure scheduled for
Wednesday 1st, possibly for testing.
On Thursday 2nd they also have another possible closure as well as Friday 3rd.
The Starship 25 upper dome was sleeved with its barrel section.
More Raptors are being moved into the Megabay to be installed on Booster 7, this is Raptor
SN70.
As always, I have to say thanks to both Mary, known as BocaChicaGal and Nic Ansuini for
being out there filming the Boca Chica content.
Also, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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