Weekly Space Report: Blue Ghost Winning, Crew Dragon 10 and More

Highlights:

  • Flight 8’s booster 15 moved inside for post-flight inspection

  • Review of Ship 34’s demise, with 3rd party visuals

  • Review of Ship V2 versus V1 design

  • SpaceX preliminary analysis suggests a harmonic in the fuel delivery systems.

  • Ground damage (vaporisors) repairs underway

  • Pad West Orbital Launch Mount infrastructure progress.

  • Ship 35 Test Campaign starts at Massey’s with pressure vessel testing.

  • Views of Ship 36 and Ship 37 assembly caught while bay doors were open.

  • Highway upgrade proceeding at Star Factory.

  • Firefly’s Blue Ghost on the Moon! Lot’s of mission progress details.

  • Earth GPS/sat nav technologies shown off on the moon.

  • Electrodynamic Dust Shield experiment

  • Intuitive Machine’s Athena Lander mission failure confirmed. Photos of situation before power died.

  • Falcon 9: SphereX/Punch Mission w/ booster return to launch site, Crew Dragon 10 to ISS also with return to launch site

  • Relativity Space leadership change as Google’s Eric Schmidt takes over with large investment.

  • Relativity Space abandoning 3D printing for larger vehicle. Will compete with Falcon 9.

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