The real crime here is using Excel as a database.

Starbase activities (2025-01-30):

• Jan 29th cryo delivery tally.
• Pad A: Refurbishment continues. (cnunez)
• Pad B: A hole is opened in the base of Tower B, and an existing hole is covered with a roofing panel. (ViX)
• Starship Gazer posts 4k videos of chopsticks assembly and lift.
• Build site: S36 nosecone has been stacked on payload bay. (NSF, Gisler)
• Work continues on Test Tank 16. (Gisler 1, Gisler 2)
• Mystery box is delivered. (Gisler)
• RGV Aerial post a recent flyover photo of the office building and Starfactory. (RGV Aerial)

Flight 8:

• SpaceX have applied for the FCC (not FAA) license, launch NET Feb 24th. (Starship Gazer, FCC)

RIP B1073-21. Sacrificed to the gods of Delta-V.

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Starbase activities (2025-01-29):

• Jan 28th cryo delivery tally.
• Pad B: Disassembly of the chopsticks assembly jig is completed. (ViX)
• Closeups of the chopsticks on Tower B. (Gisler 1, Gisler 2)
• Sanchez: Work on launch mount B continues. (Gisler 1, Gisler 2)
• Other: Comparison of all three Starship launch towers. (Priel)
• RGV Aerial post a labeled flyover photo of the launch site.

Starship lunar Human Landing System:

• “NASA’s Kent Chojnacki says on the same panel that for the HLS uncrewed demo mission, SpaceX will have to demonstrate landing, surviving on the surface for a couple hours, and then take off. He adds SpaceX will then attempt a second landing.” (Foust 1, Foust 2)

SpainSat NG 1 deployment confirmed!

Hosted webcast is back. Fairing halves for this mission were on their 5th and 8th flights.

Edit: SES-2 confirmed.

Edit2: SECO-2 and nominal orbit insertion. Payload deployment scheduled for T+31:24.

SECO-1, nominal orbital insertion. Awaiting SECO-2 at T+26:37.

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Liftoff!

SpaceX are live. John Insprucker is commentating!

Propellant load has started: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1884768757005897797

All systems and weather are looking good and propellant load is underway for tonight’s launch of the Spainsat NG I mission from pad 39A in Florida

NSF are live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xi3c1Ek5W8

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1884374093816029330

Targeting Wednesday, January 29 for Falcon 9’s launch of the SpainSat NG I mission to orbit from Florida

Presumably because they get paid? Also, companies are not their CEOs.

They are fun. Though I am sad that the webcast timelines now say “Deployments Begin”, rather than marking each deployment. Watching “Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy” slide into view was always amusing.

Starbase activities (2025-01-28):

• Jan 27th cryo delivery tally.
• Jan 27th addendum: Timelapses of chopsticks lift from LabPadre Sapphire, Nerdle, and VR cameras.
• Overnight, the arms of the chopsticks carriage are attached to the skates on Tower B. (Priel)
• In Starfactory, sliding plates have been added to the catch points on Test Tank 16. (ViX)
• Pad B: Chopsticks are lowered and the yellow LR11000 crane is disconnected. (LabPadre, ViX)
• Workers are connecting up the cableway. (Anderson)
• Disassembly of the chopsticks assembly jig begins. (ViX)
• Build site: Two raptors enter Starfactory, a S35 LOX section and a transfer tube jig with tubes enter Megabay 2. Within Megabay 2, a raptor moves towards S34, and another transfer tube moves towards S35. (ViX)
• Other: RGV Aerial post a flyover photo of a tank being loaded/unloaded. Exact location not specified, possibly Brownsville Port, as a rail line is visible in the top left.
• Updated Knaggs render of Pad B with chopsticks, launch mount, and flame trench.

Starbase activities (2025-01-27):

• Jan 26th cryo delivery tally.
• The yellow LR11000 crane is hooked up to the chopsticks. (ViX, LabPadre)
• Crane takes the weight of the chopsticks. One of the cables is observed twisting. (NSF, ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• Chopsticks are lifted onto Tower B. (ViX, Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2, Priel, Gisler 1, Gisler 2, Gisler 3, Gisler 4, Gisler video, cnunez 1, cnunez 2, cnunez 3, cnunez 4, NSF livestream)
• RGV Aerial post a recent flyover photo of the launch site and an annotated photo of Massey’s.
• New Launch Mount B renders from lewisknaggs42: Tweet 1, tweet 2 (hold-down clamp), tweet 3 (flame bucket), tweet 4 (water-cooled plate), tweet 5 (water manifold), tweet 6 (piles and rebar), tweet 7.

It’s also with rice.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1884016908187623727

Deployment of 21 @Starlink satellites confirmed

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

Edit: M-vac shutdown.