SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

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Videos

 

How to build a Starship

 

 

Starship landing legs (current, future = longer. Based on photographs)

 

 

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Road closures moved right due to road work on Highway 4. Now, 

 

July 15, 16, 17

0900-1800 Eastern

 

Static fire campaign.

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Road closures moved...

 

Boca Chic road closures

Dates: July 19, 20, 21

Times: 0900 - 1800 Eastern

 

FCC Special Temporary Authority

https://fcc.report/ELS/Space-Exploration-Technologies-Corp-SpaceX/1041-EX-ST-2020
 

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2020-07-16

Operation Start Date:   08/18/2020
Operation End Date:   02/18/2021

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This STA uses information from previous grant 0150-EX-ST-2020 and is necessary to authorize Starship Prototype suborbital test vehicle communications for medium altitude hop tests (max altitude 20km) from the Boca Chica launch pad, and the experimental recovery following the suborbital hops.

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Static fire and hop

 

FAA NOTAM

 

Altitude: From the surface up to and including 1500 feet MSL

 

Effective Date(s):

From July 22, 2020 at 0001 UTC

To August 05, 2020 at 0001 UTC

 

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_1914.html

 

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KUKA robotic welders, SN-08 bits, another Raptor arrives, level 2 of the High Bay going in, playing with airfoils, etc.

 

 

 

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FCC Special Temporary Authority (STA)

 

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=101294

 

This STA uses information from previous grant 0150-EX-ST-2020 and is necessary to authorize Starship Prototype suborbital test vehicle communications for medium altitude hop tests (max altitude 20km) from the Boca Chica launch pad, and the experimental recovery following the suborbital hops. Trajectory data will be provided directly to NTIA, USAF, and NASA. Launch licensing authority is FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation.

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NOTAMs for 150m SN-05 hop

 

Ceiling: 26,000 ft (7,925 m)

 

August 02, 2020 1100 Eastern (1300 UT)

to 2100 Eastern (0100 UT)

 

August 03, 2020 1100 Eastern (1300 UT) to 2100 Eastern (0100 UT)

 

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_6530.html

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_6534.html

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SN-05 STATIC FIRE

 

 

 

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Start at about 30:00

 

 

 

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LabPadre mod says a "birdie" told him it'll be delayed 2 hours, so 1900 Eastern.

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Approx 10 minutes until "hop"

 

 

 

Edit:  Looks like a no-go for now.

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Abort cause: the spin-start valve didn't open. 

 

Trying again tomorrow; same Bat-times, same Bat-channel.

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Early bird catches the worm...

 

SN-05 is pressurized

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Pad was cleared too

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SN5 Venting

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Reports of the siren, so 10 minutes

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that looked like a detank

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Looks like a scrub.

 

I think the cloud is N2 from the methane recondenser.

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Scrubbed. 

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Depending on time to purge and fix the issue, they could try again tonight.

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There may have been an offshore boat. Image is fuzzy.

 

Venting again

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