# Weekly Space Report: Extensive StarShip and Booster Testing

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-extensive-starship-and-booster-testing/5808>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** blue-ghost, boom-supersonic, rocket-lab, marcus-house, spacex\
**Created:** [15 February 2025 14:52 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-extensive-starship-and-booster-testing/5808 "2025-02-15T14:52:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [15 February 2025 14:52 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-extensive-starship-and-booster-testing/5808/1 "2025-02-15T14:52:14Z")

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[![](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/uploads/default/original/3X/8/6/86e0484a80e63488c70fc561e18d70792e06ecde.jpeg "SpaceX Just Smashed Multiple Records! Wow!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLG99xoCJw)

Highlights:

- Pretty pictures…

- Booster to OLM for Raptor testing. Full duration test fire completed.

- Booster returned to build site for final outfitting.

- Ship to Massey’s for Raptor testing. Extra-long test fire completed, testing upgrades, and replicating flight conditions.

- Ship returned to build site for final outfitting.

- Pad West progress. More concrete in the new flame trench. More pipe in adjacent trench. Winch wire fully installed.

- Pad West Chopsticks hydraulic actuators installed.

- More tankage installed.

- Old Ship 32 (block 1) scrapped.

- Parts for new Booster 17 appeared.

- Parts for new Ship 36 appeared.

- Activity with test article tank 16

- Judge signs off on City of Starbase application. Onward to election day to confirm.

- Blue Ghost flight progress report. Was able to skip one trajectory correction. Now in high elliptical lunar orbit.

- Intuitive Machines progress report.

- NASA attempting to revive VIPER lunar rover with private involvement.

- Falcon 9: Starlink 12-9, Starlink 11-10, Starlink 12-18, Starlink 12-8.

- Starlink Direct-to-cell beta program open to the public now, via T-Mobile

- Boom Supersonic follow-up test flight #13, final planned flight. Explanation of “boomless” technology.

- Rocket Lab Electron “IoT 4 U and Me”

- Rocket Lab preparations for first Neutron flight, expected in 2025.