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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
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).
@NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Teams encapsulated 32 payloads ahead of Falcon 9’s launch of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida → spacex.com/launches/bandwago…
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
🔥 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.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
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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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
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.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
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…
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
All systems are looking good, and weather is favorable for liftoff. Propellant load is about to begin for Falcon 9’s launch of the USSF-481 mission from California → spacex.com/launches/ussf481
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
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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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
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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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Post-flight analysis confirms the Artemis II Orion heat shield performed as expected during its Mach 39 reentry, protecting the spacecraft and the astronauts aboard as they returned from the 694,481-mile journey around the Moon. go.nasa.gov/4B7EWNT
ALT Two photos side-by-side showing the Artemis I Orion heat shield on the left and the Artemis II Orion heat shield on the right. Both heat shields are seen on stands and rotated for inspection. Credit: NASA
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
The Starlink Loader:
Starship East Coast: The Ship Work Stand has been offloaded You'll Thank Me Later at the KSC turn basin.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Starship East Coast: The Ship Work Stand has been offloaded You'll Thank Me Later at the KSC turn basin.
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🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
People really have no idea what string theory is, most have never talked to a string theorist nor bother to read up on it. Its public perception is driven by remarkably confident statements constructing a bogeyman that has nothing to do with the actual research
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Starship Update with Max Evans (@_MaxQ_).
➡️youtube.com/watch?v=t9iGVxSx…
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Today we shared an update on Neutron's development, including adjusting the schedule for flight one to 2027.
Full details: investors.rocketlabcorp.com/…
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Module 6 is back on the Vehicle Access Tower. The crane configuration for lifting and placing these modules is a delicate work of art. This CC 8800 heavy lift crane uses counterweight positioned behind the crane to significantly increase lifting performance.
🏳️🌈Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex) retweeted
Stage 2 has officially left the rocket factory for the last time. 😢🫡
Now in Moses Lake, WA, it will undergo cryo proof testing and then a hotfire campaign with its Andromeda engine before shipment to our launch site in Cape Canaveral, FL.
ALT Stage 2 at Kent, WA rocket factory
ALT Stage 2 shipping from Kent to Moses Lake test site
ALT Stage 2 delivered to Mose Lake test site
ALT Stage 2 mounted on test stand to being final testing