Weekly Space Report: Twilight without Vampires

Highlights:

  • Pad 1 Foundation removal and apparent plans with new materials arriving

  • Last two Pad 1 water deluge tanks hauled off to MacGregor

  • Pad 2 progress, catch arms and QD arm testing

  • Space Launch Complex 39A quick disconnect arm placed, also with new catch arms hardware

  • SLC 39A satellite image analysis. (No overflights allowed for aerial photography.)

  • Boca Chica big crane reconfiguration and relocation for Air Separation plant work

  • Ship 39 scaffold comes down, new details noted on freshly installed heat shield tiles.

  • Test article S39.2 action and mods. Propellant transfer parts noted during transport to Massey’s.

  • Test article B18.3 cryo testing and Massey’s.

  • V3 Ship static fire stand relocation

  • Falcon 9: Twilight Ride-Share to multiple Sun-synchronous orbits, Starlink 6-97, Starlink 6-98

  • Pandora and Black Cat mission profiles

  • SpaceX NASA Dragon Crew-11 early return. No medical details released.

  • Reviewing possibilities on early launch of Crew 12.

  • Blue Moon MK-1 lunar lander test campaign.

  • ISRO PSLV-C62 / EOS-N1 mission failure, similar to failure of PSLV-C61

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