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On Friday, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket with the Starlink 4-13 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Zero.
Ignition.
And liftoff.
Go Falcon, go Starlink.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1063, then landed successfully for the 5th time
on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
[SpaceX Commentator: “So we have audio and video confirmation now of the first stage.
That is the 5th successful landing for this particular booster.
And the 112th successful recovery of a Falcon 9 first stage booster.”]
On Saturday, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket with the Starlink 4-15 mission.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Zero.
Ignition.
And liftoff.
Go Falcon, go Starlink.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1073, then landed successfully for the first time
on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “So, there’s ignition of the centre Merlin engine.
You can see the grid fins helping guide us towards the droneship.
Now, we’ll expect to see the landing legs deploy, just before we touch down.
You can see that our speed is rapidly coming down to zero.
There’s landing leg deploy.
Ahh, and a lovely touchdown.
This booster’s first landing.
The 111th recovery of a Falcon 9 first stage booster.
With many more flights to come.”]
With another 2 more Falcon 9 launches having happened over the last week, this is another
launch scheduled for this coming week.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the launch of Starlink 4-18 is scheduled to lift
off on Wednesday 18th at 9am UTC or 5am EDT.
SpaceX posted a picture on Twitter with a Starlink map.
They said “Starlink is now available in 32 countries around the world.
People ordering from areas marked ‘available’ will have their Starlink shipped immediately.”
There was another interesting Tweet posted related to Starlink.
It says “The Quebec government is joining forces with SpaceX to complete the connection
of nearly 100% of homes to high-speed Internet.”
There’s an article posted about a cruise ship that not long ago breached the exclusion
zone and caused a scrub of a SpaceX launch.
It says “The U.S. Coast Guard modified its procedures in the wake of a cruise ship's
intrusion into a SpaceX launch zone earlier this year, a high-profile incident that highlighted
the need for continued conversations on how to handle the confluence of space and maritime
traffic.
Among the changes in the works are updated ‘exclusion zones’ for launches and new,
modernized ways of disseminating launch updates to ship captains.”
There’s an article about certain launches of rockets and capsules with it primarily
talking about Starliner.
However, I wanted to share where it says “Members of NASA’s independent safety advisory panel
said there are ‘obvious safety concerns’ about SpaceX’s plans to launch the giant
Starship rocket from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the same facility used for crew
missions to the International Space Station.”
Heading over to Boca Chica, work continues around the orbital launch site.
The work on suborbital Pad A continues with a Starship QD installed.
Work continues at the top of the Megabay in the production yard.
The work continues on the new Starfactory production building with walls now being added.
The nosecone of the Ship 16 prototype has been chopped off.
After residing at the suborbital launch site for a bit, Ship 20 was moved to the rocket
garden.
Here’s Starship 24 being worked on in the Highbay after stacking.
Here’s a view of the Ship 26 aft bulkhead in the yard.
Also the Ship 26 aft ring stack is waiting outside to be sleeved.
It was also flipped out in the yard.
This 4 ring stack for Starship 26’s payload section was seen moving.
Earlier in the week, SpaceX did some further cryogenic testing of Booster 7.
Booster 7 was then hooked up to the crane.
Finally, it was rolled back to the production yard for Raptor installation.
It was also moved into the Megabay with Ship 16.
To finish up today’s video, we once again have an updated Starbase production diagram
to take a look at thanks to Brendan Lewis.
As always, I have to say thank you to both Mary, also known as BocaChicaGal and Nic Ansuini
for being out there filming the Boca Chica content.
Also, thank you to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos,
livestreams and other space content.
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