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Kicking off today’s video, we have yet another Falcon 9 mission with the successful launch
of SES-22.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Zero.
Ignition.
And lift off!”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1073, then landed successfully for the 2nd time
on the droneship A Shortfall Of Gravitas.
[SpaceX Commentator: “Landing burn beginning on the first stage.
Again, attempting to land on A… nominal orbital insertion…
A Shortfall Of Gravitas.
And confirmation of good orbit on the second stage.
Stage 1 landing leg deploy.
Expected loss of signal…
Cape.
And what an incredible view, as you can see, Falcon 9 has touched down on our droneship
A Shortfall Of Gravitas.”]
This coming week, we can hopefully expect a couple more Falcon launches with Starlink
missions.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the launch of Starlink 4-21 is scheduled for Thursday
7th at 10:30pm UTC or 6:30pm EDT.
There’s also the launch of Starlink 3-1 that may lift off on Friday 8th but no time
is specified.
Reagan Beck posted some pictures on Twitter of a brand new Falcon Heavy booster.
She said “Upon a second trip out to SpaceX McGregor, a Falcon Heavy logo was spotted
on the new booster, along with 9 mighty Merlin 1D engines with covers!”
There was an article posted about SpaceX receiving permission from the FCC to operate Starlink
on moving vehicles.
Heading to Boca Chica, there have been loads of deliveries to the orbital tank farm.
Work continues up at the top of the Megabay in the production yard.
The new SPMT storage building is continuing to be worked on.
Starfactory is also continuing nicely.
Some underground pipes are being laid at the production site.
There was a really interesting and exciting article posted.
It says “Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., says he thinks SpaceX will launch its
Starship rocket for a first orbital test flight from Boca Chica within the next 90 days.”
There was a cool picture posted on Twitter of the progress on Machazilla at Pad 39A in
Florida with 3 tower segments now stacked.
There was a document posted by NASA of an expansion at SpaceX’s Roberts Road facility.
It says “SpaceX is proposing to expand their Roberts Road SpaceX Operations Area at Kennedy
Space Center and construct a connector road.”
Here’s a view of one of the newer flatter domes sitting outside.
SpaceX posted a couple of amazing pictures on Twitter of Raptor 2 engines.
The first which you see here is of the 33 Raptor 2 engines installed on Super Heavy
Booster 7.
Then, they also posted this incredible photo of the 6 Raptor 2 engines on Starship 24,
3 sea level and 3 vacuum engines.
The Starlink loader was seen being lifted and tested with Ship 24.
Here’s a view of Ship 25’s payload section still awaiting TPS tiles.
After sitting at the launch site for a while, Booster 4 was moved to the rocket garden.
Booster 5 is no longer as it has now been cut in half.
After testing recently, work is going on with the B7.1 test tank.
With no static fire over the dates we were hoping, crews continue to work on Booster
7.
They’ve also been working on the Raptor engines.
Though no static fire, there was some testing of Booster 7.
SpaceX have a bunch of possible closures scheduled for this coming week and next for probably
Booster 7 testing.
There are dates posted for possible closures on Tuesday 5th, Wednesday 6th and Thursday
7th.
As well as that, there are possible closures for next week with Monday 11th and Tuesday
12th.
Finally, to finish up today’s video, we have a new Starbase production diagram, 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, thanks to the NASASpaceflight team working behind the scenes on their videos, livestreams
and other space content.
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