Weekly Space Report: Pad 2 Flame Trench Testing!

Highlights:

  • Ship 38 Static Fire at Pad 1 stops at engine chill. Retry also failed at end of week.

  • Pad 2 flame trench plumbing testing

  • Pad 2 water supply tank expansion

  • Test article B18-3 clean hot-staging top due to grid fin relocation

  • Small inner tank spotted, presumably for Booster 18.

  • Booster 18 aft ring spotted, with some speculative details confirmed

  • Cryo testing proceeding at Massey’s

  • Massey’s rebuilt hiccups

  • New blast wall for Massey’s methane storage

  • New drone ship “You’ll Thank Me Later” revealed, to transport vehicles from TX to FL.

  • Horizontal transport position discussion.

  • Legs at Canaveral flame trench installed. Corresponds to five months ago at TX Pad 2.

  • Stoke Space reveals at Canaveral Space Launch Complex 14

  • Falcon 9: CRS NG-23 Cygnus Cargo Module (with orbital maneuver problems), Starlink 17-10, Starlink 10-61, Starlink 17-12

  • Vast Haven-1 flight article reveal, starting testing.

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