It's still unclear what's happening with Sn15. Belief seems to be a static fire (or more than one) on Monday. (They want to test fire off both the main tanks and the headers.) Then (big maybe) a flight on Tuesday or Wednesday.
But the worker-ants at Elon's Starbase hive aren't waiting around. They are swarming around everywhere in non-stop frantic activity.
Here's Mary's latest update video, filmed yesterday. The first half shows the build site, the second half the launch site.
The build site features the newest GSE-3 tank (destined for holding propellants at the new tank farm), lots and lots of rings and barrels, the newest Superheavy thrust dome and its sleeving in a barrel, various deliveries of cryptic items manufactured off site that Mary laborously documents, the new Sn16 nose taking shape, the orbital launch table being finished and all kinds of things. There's even glimpses of the new fuel refinery being built behind the High Bay.
The launch site is a non-stop 24/7 construction zone. There's workers taking forms off a concrete building that may eventually house electrical transformers, there's lots of circular rebar forms that will be the concrete bases of huge propellant tanks (like GSE-3 above), there's the blast-reinforced 'bunker' with black railings above it that houses pumps and valves, there's berms, retaining walls and earthworks. There's the six huge legs that will soon support the orbital launch table upon which fully stacked orbital Starships will sit, and rising above it all, the launch tower, the grand Tower of Elon. On the other side of the landing pad at the old (only a year old) launch area is Sn15 awaiting its fate, plus the structural test rig encasing a nose for expected structural testing simulating Max-Q and supersonic aerodynamic loads.
And perhaps most importantly, there's a look at the black and white (SpaceX company colors are black and white) SpaceX cat that reportedly has been living at the build site since the time of Mk.1.
And on that same note... Zeus the Boston Dynamics robodog has a new companion, a second yellow Spot that the space-geeks are calling Apollo. The two of them were photographed out together at the launch site the other day.
That's today's news update..
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