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Yazata Online Feb 2, 2024 08:50 PM (This post was last modified: Feb 2, 2024 08:57 PM by Yazata.)
Boosters inside of Megabay-1. The three fully stacked ones along the back wall are intended for the next three starship flights. While on the left and right in the foreground are the yet-to-be-stacked LOX and Methane tank sections of a fourth booster.

They've come a long way since a crew of Texas guys in pickups were building Hoppy out in an empty field with just a tent nearby.

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Yazata Online Feb 9, 2024 08:33 PM
Starfactory construction update. The nosecone assembly hall is proceeding nicely. In the space to the left/background all the way to the existing starfactory building, footings for vertical columns have gone in and lots of concrete is being poured.

Screenshot by the amazing Vicki Cocks from Lab Padre's Rover 1 livestream camera.


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Yazata Online Feb 10, 2024 02:48 AM
Booster B10 rolled out to the launch pad yesterday and was installed on the Orbital Launch Mount last night. Hopefully it won't need to return to the Megabay before IFT-3.

And tonight Ship 28 is expected to make its way to the launch area. It's a matter of speculation/controversy whether it will head to the remaining suborbital pad for a static-fire or whether it will go straight to the OLM for stacking on B10. The pro-SF faction argue that S28 has had several of its engines swapped out since its last static fire.

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Yazata Online Feb 15, 2024 04:01 AM (This post was last modified: Feb 15, 2024 04:02 AM by Yazata.)
Zack's latest deep dive investigation into the genesis of the hot-staging modifications and how they were tested, a summary of the booster fuel feed system and then using all that to speculate about why the IFT-2 booster failed after staging, during boostback. Includes some great animation and renders, including some computational fluid dynamics.


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Yazata Online Feb 17, 2024 06:32 AM (This post was last modified: Feb 17, 2024 07:05 AM by Yazata.)
Throw-back image by Mauricio, showing Starbase as it was five years ago, with just one tent, some shipping containers and Hoppy under construction out in a field! Stargate is visible off to the left, at the time it housed a U. of Texas radio astronomy thing.

Today the vertical assembly bays are to the right of Stargate. Sanchez with its many work areas, the Rocket Garden and big inventory tent are behind Stargate. The area where Hoppy is taking shape was the Giant Tents for several years and is now the ever-growing Starfactory. Boca Chica village is off camera to the right.


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