Weekly Space Report: Starship TF11 Plan Partial Reveal

Highlights:

  • Booster 15 static fire already completed (previously flown and caught on TF8)

  • Pad 1 conversion plan review

  • Pad 1 ship static fire adapter components brought out Wednesday

  • Ars Technica interview of Bill Gerstenmaier addressed tile results and plans

  • Fewer deliberate missing tiles for TF11

  • Still suborbital plan for TF11

  • Block 3 won’t launch this year–TF11 is it for 2025

  • Massey’s rebuild progress report

  • Hints that part of Massey’s flame diverter were damaged

  • Falcon 9: Starlink 17-9, Space Development Agency First Tranche 1, Nusantara Lima

  • Starlink exclusive direct-to-cell spectrum deal with EchoStar

  • SLC-40 launch license upgraded to 120 Falcon 9 per year

  • Mars Perseverence “signs of life” study results.

  • Dragonfly Mission to Titan update from NASA, mission preview

  • Stoke Space Nova structural qualification completed

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