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ChromeKiwi retweeted
Booster 23 has entered Highway 4 and is heading to Massey's ahead of cryogenic proof testing.
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The SHT-SAF (Starship Horizontal Transport - Ship Aft Frame) was moved to Sanchez and has now been attached to Ship 40 after its voyage across the ocean. It looks like a breakover test to get the ship vertical again could be the plan.
The only question I have is how they will attach and lift the forward section of the ships.
As we have seen with boosters where they can attach slings using a grid fin replacement device, the ship has landing hardpoints in a fixed orientation. So, I am wondering if they will use the same type of device bolted to the lift/landing pins (the green device in the render).
The forward section slings according to Grok would only see roughly 40-45% of the total dry mass weight at horizontal and 0 at vertical unless they use them to load it onto the Ship Transport Stand.
Extra long slings onto the lift/landing adapters very impressive and a great shot from @StarshipGazer.
Ship 40 Breakover was impressive.
Using two cranes to pick up the aft end so they could swap the transport cradle with the pivot frame using SPMT's.
Just as i had thought they can bolt adapters to the lift/landing points and using the bridge cranes can use pins into these sockets.
Great timing for this pic from @RGVaerialphotos
Booster 23 has rolled out of Mega Bay for cryo proof testing at Massey's, using tonight's planned road closure. @LabPadre's Rover 1 is providing amazing views through Gigabay.
And just like that Ship 40 is vertical again in Mega Bay 2 – at Auckland, New Zealand
Ship 40 has been lifted back to the vertical position inside of Megabay 2!
What do yal think will be its fate after deep inspection is completed?
🎥: @LabPadre
Hmm i wonder if they are not going to wait for the Gigabay crane and use Megabay 2 Bridge crane instead and get it done ASAP.
Ship 40 has relocated to the ring yard. Come and watch with us to see what happens next.
youtube.com/watch?v=inCQ49QG…
The large bridge crane for Gigabay got a new sign for it's working load limit. 420😎
Credit : @LabPadre
ChromeKiwi retweeted
Starship 40 with the Stars and Stripes ready to roll from the Port of Brownsville back to Starbase.
10/10/26
ChromeKiwi retweeted
Ship 40 is moving now, getting ready to come off the Forte.
78 days after lifting off from Starbase, it is about to touch land again, on the same patch of Texas it left from.
Ship 40 and FORTE are now on the final approach to Brownsville port ETA 0900 on Marine Traffic.
Looking forward to the coverage and all the photos everyone manages to collect and then the logistics of getting it back to Starbase going to be an exciting few days.
Hopefully we get some good angles on the next flyover
The LOX landing tank test article appears to have experienced a RUD during testing. Its possible this was intentional, although its pretty rare for SpaceX to perform tests to failure, especially at Masseys
🎥: @LabPadre
ChromeKiwi retweeted
Constant communication is what makes autonomy like this safe. Early contact lets us take maneuvering responsibility, publish ephemeris faster than ground radar can catalog the object, and deorbit and keep commanding through demise if needed
We treat early communications as a requirement, not a nice-to-have
SpaceX transport barge "You'll Thank Me Later" inbound to Starbase Texas.
A Pez Loader moved to the ports that will be sent over to Florida for Starlink missions in the near future.
Pad 39a has been doing top deck deluge testing and ship QD arm retraction hopefully a booster and ship breakover will be on the cards soon as they will be needed for GSE testing and pad commissioning.
Test tank S39.1 using the closure to move to Massey's also.
S43.1 at Massey's, with an impressive array of equipment rigged up inside the structural test cage.
A large beam placed over the top supports four hydraulic cylinders linked to catch/lift hardware (yellow arrows).
Another cylinder is pinned to a beam, applying loads to one side of the cone (orange arrow). Two frames are linked to the flap hardware for applying forces on the linkage hardware (red arrows).
A pair of chopstick simulator beams apply a clamp force to the 9-meter tank section (green arrows).
Internally, a large trapezoid frame is likely testing the Pez dispenser base frame that attaches to the forward dome, possibly testing forces it would see during a fully loaded Starlink v3 mission.
Thanks to @MarcusHouse @lifeatstagezero
for the progress shots.
