# Weekly Space Report: Pad 2 Static Fire Aftermath

**URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-pad-2-static-fire-aftermath/6334
**Category:** The Happening World
**Tags:** blue-origin, vast-haven, rocket-lab, marcus-house, spacex
**Created:** [25 April 2026 11:45 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-pad-2-static-fire-aftermath/6334 "2026-04-25T11:45:58Z")
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#### Post date: [25 April 2026 11:45 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/weekly-space-report-pad-2-static-fire-aftermath/6334/1 "2026-04-25T11:45:58Z")

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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zsM8SZV8DnY/maxresdefault.jpg "SpaceX Just Revealed What Really Happened…") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsM8SZV8DnY)

Highlights:

- Compression testing at Massey’s with test article B19.3

- Debris picked up during static fire, no damage to flame trench

- Tank farm getting attention

- Cool control room video released by SpaceX

- Manifold pressure sensor aborted the static fire back at the 10-engine test.

- 10-engine static fire quick stop did damage.

- Ship 41 parts spotted

- Booster 20 forward dome spotted

- Factory construction obscuring Megabays more and more

- Pad 1 parts for new launch mount showing up at the port

- Concrete skirt of the tower finished.

- Sheet piles around perimeter of trench in progress.

- Small propellant tanks at Pad 1 coming out

- Air separation plant e-house moved into place on foundation.

- New Glenn 3: Booster re-used and recovered again successfully. But with new engines.

- New Glenn 3: Second stage failed to deliver to target orbit.

- Falcon 9: GPS III SV10 (final in constellation), Starlink 17-22, Starlink 17-14

- Drone ship “Just Read The Instructions” retiring from catch operations to haul Starship components.

- Artemis II further followup.

- Heat shield photo from underwater immediately after splashdowm. Heat shield performed as predicted.

- Vast Haven-1 and Haven-2 presentations, with new 6.6m docking ring aimed at standardization. (Huge!)

- Rocket Lab “Bubbles” and “Kakushin Rising” missions

- Rocket Lab in-house thruster production

- NASA Nancy Grace telescope eight months ahead of schedule and under budget (!!).

- Nancy Grace mission overview.