Weekly Space Report: Blue Ghost's Farewell

Highlights:

  • Progress at Pad West aka Pad B. Lots of big plumbing delivered.

  • New tank farm hardware installed, too.

  • New Flame Trench floor and ramps concrete poured. 300 Concrete trucks.

  • Sidewall forms in progress.

  • Launch mount fab looks nearly done.

  • Build site high bay demolition started, to be replaced with a new Mega Bay.

  • Weather damage to build site parking garage repaired, with upgraded mural.

  • Ship 37 nose rolled out without flaps, many tiles missing.

  • Test tank ten moved from Massey’s to rocket garden, showing deformation from the testing.

  • Booster 15 post flight engine removal completed, moved to rocket garden, too.

  • Blue Ghost mission complete, with many gigabytes of results transmitted before lunar sundown.

  • Discussion of techniques to survive lunar night.

  • Intuitive Machines Athena mission failure report, with partial successes enumerated.

  • ISS Crew Rotation complete, with Crew-10 taking over for Crew-9, and the return of Suni and Butch.

  • Crew-10’s Dragon suffered a minor failure in waste processing. Cough.

  • Falcon 9: Transporter 13, Starlink 12-16, Crew Dragon, NROL-57

  • Rocket Lab “The Lightning God Reigns” and “High Five” missions.

  • Rocket Lab proposes reviving the Mars Sample Return project with their hardware.

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