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Overnight at Starbase, @SpaceX rolled back Starship Flight 16's Booster 23 from Massey's to Mega Bay 1, following what we can only assume was a successful cryo testing campaign. Will this be the first booster to launch from Florida?? Find out with us! (Long timelapse, but up to you to find the SPMT noises... brrrrrrrttttt).
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Oh hey hello there, Starfall!
Teams encapsulated 32 payloads ahead of Falcon 9’s launch of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida → spacex.com/launches/bandwago…
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🔥 Just another day at Stennis. Stage 2 successfully completed its first integrated hotfire!
The A2 test stand was originally built in the 60s to support Saturn V Upper Stage testing (S-II). It was later reconfigured to be a single engine test stand for Shuttle Main Engine testing and development.
The last Saturn V Stage test occurred October 30, 1970 on A2. It has been 55 years, 11 months, and 17 days since A2 supported stage testing capability.
As of this morning, it is now 0 days.
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Starbase Pad 1 taking shape as teams lifted a piece of the Flame Bucket. @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/starbase
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Blue Origin adds yet another section of 36A. Really picking up the pace on the rebuild now!
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Team Blue is building the infrastructure and hardware to meet the mission ahead of us. Take a look at our upper stage manufacturing facility at Rocket Park - it will produce up to 150 upper stages a year to support high launch cadence. This is one piece of a connected system designed to run at rate: manufacturing, integration, launch, recovery, refurbishment, and back to flight. Every step optimized for cadence.
So when do you think they're gonna be making the Roadster jump up and park on top of the Starship Giga Bay? They could call that feature the premium parking spot at Starbase.
New LC-36 render and a render of the new stage 2 production facility, set to be completed in the summer of 2027. Blue says they’re also preparing two new droneships and looking at additional launch pads on the space coast beyond the two at LC-36.
"Launching at a high cadence requires a connected system - one that manufactures vehicles at scale, prepares customer payloads efficiently, supports reliable launch operations, and quickly returns reusable boosters to service. We are building that system here in Florida." Read more from our Senior Vice President of Operations Ian Richardson. bit.ly/4hRC0xe
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LAUNCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 B1081-28 launches USSF-481 from SLC-4E and drowns out the national anthem.
Watch Falcon 9 launch the USSF-481 mission from pad 4E in California xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1aJbdEzYp…
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Super frosty Super Heavy!
Booster 23 is currently undergoing cryogenic testing at Masseys today. @NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Starship Flight 16: Booster 23 with a bellyful of cryo at Massey's. This *could* be the booster that goes to 39A!
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What the heck is going on with google maps lately? It freezes and it stops and it's completely unusable. Really awful how basically every single website and app is getting shitier over time.
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S43.1’s nosecone tip appears slightly crumpled during testing at Massey's. It’s currently unclear when this occurred or how it will affect the remaining tests on this test tank.
Photo: @CeaserG33 for NSF.
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