Hello, we are TheSpaceXFans and welcome to TheSpaceXShow, the place where you can stay
up to date with everything SpaceX.
Starting today’s video, SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket with the Transporter-4
mission on Friday.
[SpaceX Commentator: “One.
Ignition.
And lift off of Transporter-4.”]
The booster which launched this mission, B1061, then landed successfully for the 7th time
on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
[SpaceX Commentator: “As you can see, we did have a successful landing of our first
stage.”]
There is another launch on Wednesday this coming week with an exciting astronaut mission
to the ISS.
As you can see on TheSpaceXFans website, the Ax-1 mission is scheduled to lift off on Wednesday
6th at 4:05pm UTC or 12:05pm EDT.
SpaceX posted some cool pictures of the crew of the first Axiom Space mission, Ax-1.
There was an interesting article posted related to the Axiom Space mission.
It says “A brain 'headset' aims to provide a high-resolution view of neural changes that
happen in the brain while in space, and it will fly aboard Axiom Space's first crewed
launch, Ax-1.”
NASA posted a Tweet saying “Launch update!
NASA's SpaceX Crew4 mission is now launching no earlier than April 20 at 6:37 a.m.
ET.
The four astronauts are set to arrive at the Space Station the next day.”
There was an article posted related to Starlink.
It says “The Philippines is set to become the first country in Southeast Asia to access
SpaceX’s Starlink broadband services, its government announced March 31.”
There was a cool video posted by Jared Isaacman on Twitter of Dragon’s thrusters firing.
[Jared Isaacman: “...to our next circularisation burn.
So, right now, we’re at 578km apogee, 370km perigee.
So, you can see Dragon’s oriented into the velocity vector, we’re at perigee, it’s
going to burn.
Started its burn now.
And this is going to lower apogee now, to equal perigee, we’ll be circularised around
370km.
You can hear the Dracos firing in the background, these are our forward bulkhead Dracos.
This is our primary way to create a delta-V manoeuvre.
Almost sounds like an orchestra.”]
Heading to Boca Chica, here’s a view of the orbital launch site.
Crews have been seen working on the Booster quick disconnect.
Here’s a cool view of the orbital launch mount.
The work on the orbital launch mount has continued with Booster 7 testing expected soon.
The work on the top level of the Wide Bay has been continuing.
Four girders for the Wide Bay bridge crane have been lifted and installed.
There was an interesting article posted about space organisations coming together to try
and convince the FAA to approve Starship.
It says “A group of 14 space advocacy organisations today published a joint statement urging rapid
U.S. government approval of SpaceX’s Starship test flights.”
We saw last week that some Raptor 2 engines were delivered and further engines have been
delivered since.
Here’s a view of the Ship 24 nosecone with heat shield tiles almost complete.
During the past week, SpaceX rolled the Booster 7 prototype to the launch site.
The load spreader was then hooked up to this Super Heavy Booster.
Crews then worked at the base of the Booster to prepare it to be lifted on the orbital
mount.
Super Heavy Booster 7 has now been lifted and installed on the orbital launch mount.
Taking a look at the road and beach closures on the Cameron County website, we could see
some testing this coming week.
There are currently dates scheduled for every day this week from tomorrow, Monday 4th, through
Friday 8th.
This Super Heavy Booster 8 aft section was seen lifted and moved into the High Bay.
The common dome section for Booster 8 was seen lifted and stacked in the High Bay.
Finally for the video today, we once again have an updated Starbase production diagram
to take a look at thanks to Brendan Lewis.
As always, I have to say thanks to both Mary, known as BocaChicaGal and Nic Ansuini 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.
That’s it for this episode of TheSpaceXShow, I hope you enjoyed the video, if you did,
make sure to hit the like button and leave a comment down below.
If you want to stay updated with SpaceX info, make sure to subscribe and press the bell
icon to get notified when I upload.
Thanks for watching and have a great day!