Weekly Space Report: Intuitive Machines IM-2/Athena En Route!

Highlights:

  • Launch license modified for Flight 8 even though Flight 7 mishap is still open.

  • Booster staged for launch, with hot staging ring, various extra tests, and flight termination system explosives

  • Ship not stacked with delay to Monday.

  • SpaceX released a detailed report on loss of Ship 33.

  • Summary of mods on Ship 34 to mitigate.

  • Additional details on Booster flaky engine, and mitigation

  • Pad West flame trench nearing completion

  • Pad West chopsticks lift tests

  • Pad West water deluge tanks delivered to site

  • Booster 17 and Ship 36 fabrication progress

  • Falcon 9 lofted Intuitive Machines Athena into a luner injection orbit, along with small rideshares

  • First cell network to be deployed on the moon

  • Blue Ghost landing expected later tonight

  • SPHEREx launch next week, mission profile

  • Gilmour Space licensed for the first Australian orbital-class rocket

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