Weekly Space Report: Drama!

SCANALYZER The Happening World
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Highlights:

  • Multiple views of Hot Staging in Flight 9

  • Lots of progress on Pad B

  • More Pad B plumbing

  • Short arms motion and lift testing

  • Large rented crane dismantled and departed.

  • Booster 16 moved to launch site for testing, full duration 33 engine static fire

  • Ship 36 and 38 assembly progress

  • Booster 18 growing quickly–first “next gen” booster

  • Production site prep for Giga bay continues

  • Ship 37 cryo testing at Massey’s. (Intended for test flight 11)

  • Test article 17 also cryo testing at Masseys

  • Ship 37 moved to Mega bay and flaps seen likely headed for it

  • Blue Origin NS-32

  • Upcoming Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark-1 Lunar Lander and Transporter Propellant Storage

  • Propellant storage discussion of challenges.

  • iSpace Hakuto-R Resilience lander lost in final landing approach. Last telemetry suggest a high energy impact.

  • Firefly publishes post-processed high quality video from the Blue Ghost mission

  • Falcon 9: Starlink 11-18, Starlink 12-19, Starlink 11-22 (500th Falcon 9 launch!), Sirius SXM-10

  • Rocket Lab Electron “Full Steam Ahead” for Black Sky

  • Fallout from withdrawal of Jared Isaacman from NASA admin.

  • Potentially Apocalyptic (?) fight betweem Trump and Musk

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