Weekly Space Report: Artemis Massive Redesign!

SCANALYZER The Happening World
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Highlights:

  • Prep work on Ship Static Fire stand noted for S39 test campaign

  • New tile pattern on flap trailing edge.

  • Speculation on new frame at Massey’s, perhaps for combined cryo, load, and static fires.

  • Ship catch points are on unpressurized payload bay, not a tank section.

  • New filing for payload simulators with active comms, higher peak altitude.

  • Ship 40 nearing structural completion.

  • Gigabay TX and Gigabay FL progress.

  • Launch site expansion progress.

  • Continuing sheet pile installation at Pad 1 for flame trench conversion.

  • Pad 2 Tower Roof nearing completion, still fabricating on the ground.

  • More tower sections rolled to SLC 37

  • SpaceX manufacturing announcement on LinkedIn, looking to hire lots of skilled techs and machinists.

  • Falcon 9: Starlink 6-104, Starlink 17-25, Starlink 6-110, Starlink 17-26, Starlink 6-108

  • Artemis II woes–rolled back to VAB.

  • NASA drops complete redesign of Artemis program, with III now not a lunar flyby.

  • CRS-33 Cargo Dragon undocks and returns to Earth.

  • ISS Medical issue subject, Mike Fincke, self identifies, but no further details.

  • Rocket Lab “That’s Not A Knife” launches from Wallops Island with HASTE payload.

  • Sierra Space Dreamchaser runway and communications testing. Sparse report. Targeting Q4 still.

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