The Sarens CC-8800 used to assemble the 2nd Starship Integration Tower at Starbase has moved to Florida to assist with construction of the SLS Mobile Launcher 2.

Timelapse of steel near to the payload door being warped slightly during peak re-entry heating. This is in the area where tiles were removed

The new HLS renders shown during the live broadcast today were pretty awesome.

Listening to this Booster 13 Igniter test on max volume, you can actually hear the difference between the number of engines in each group of the ignition sequence.

1st pulse: 13 Center engines
2nd pulse: 15 Boost engines
3rd pulse: 5 Boost engines

Over the last months I’ve been feeling really sad for Gwynne Shotwell.

I can only imagine how many fires she’s attempting to put out behind the scenes.

Everything looking great for Flight 6!

A full-stack tanking test is expected to take place on Sunday. After that, S31 will need to be destacked for FTS installation.

IMO it will be incredibly difficult to pull this off in time for a launch on Monday afternoon. Tuesday seems a lot more likely!

Space flight news feed seems pretty bleak on this app 😔