Weekly Space Report: Pad West Rapid Progress

Highlights:

  • Great views of new tower over unfinished flame trench with Mechazilla arms in place.

  • Draw works started getting its huge cable

  • Booster 15 moved to the orbital launch mount.

  • Flaps for Ship 34 arrived. Wrapping up its final assembly, presumably. Doors closed–could’t tell for sure until later.

  • Pause to notice the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy floating to Brownsville for scrapping.

  • Falcon 9: Worldview Legion 5+6 w/ return to launch site, Starlink 11-4, Starlink 12-3

  • Blue Origin suborbital NS-29, uncrewed to test simulated lunar gravity via ship spin. Video posted later.

  • Update from Osiris Rex sample return: life precursors found, ammonia, some protein fragments, and nucleotides for RNA/DNA.

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