As Emperor said, “if you see a need for a community, start it”.

Are they from a movie/show of some sort?

and dragonfire even hotter still, yet Gandalf said that the biggest, baddest dragon who ever lived Ancalagon the Black (who makes Smaug look like a whimpy little butterfly in comparison) wouldn’t be able to harm the One Ring

I don’t remember this. Where was this mentioned? Council of Elrond?

This fox is named Heidi?

This seems like a good problem to have, no? Just need some batteries or some interuptable industrial processes to absorb the excess.

Starbase activities (2024-11-16):

• Nov 15th cryo delivery tally.
• Pad A: Overnight, FTS is installed on B13. (LabPadre, ViX, Beyer, NSF)
• Booster transport stand leaves the launch complex. (ViX)
• Ship transport stand moves from Pad A to storage area. (ViX)
• Rover 2 video tour of launch site. Closeups of B13 FTS boxes, fence removal, digging, LN2 tanker. (ViX)
• New shielding covering the waterfall valves beside the booster quick disconnect is spotted. (Anderson / Starship Gazer)
• D Wise posts recent close-ups of S31.
• Build site: B14’s grid fins move from Starfactory towards Megabay 1. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• RGV Aerial post recent flyover photos of the build site, launch mount B construction, and Pad A.

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Weather, according to NASASpaceflight. Could potentially slip to Wednesday if Tuesday weather is poor.

Starbase activities (2024-11-15):

• Nov 14th cryo delivery tally.
• Nov 14th addenda: ViX and Priel timelapses of S31 stacking. Side-by-side comparison of all seven full stackings.
• Pad A: Overnight, ship quick disconnect connects to S31. (LabPadre)
• Scaffolding is removed from the launch mount, and access hole covers are welded. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Launch mount work platform is lowered. (ViX)
• B13 performs an igniter test. (ViX, Golden)
• B13 performs a gridfin wiggle test. (ViX, Priel)
• Launch mount detonation suppression system is tested. (ViX, Priel)
• S31 performs an igniter test. (ViX)
• Workers install flight termination systems on B13. FTS for S31 might already be installed. (Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2, Starship Gazer 3, Golden)
• B13 closeups from D Wise. (Tweet 1, tweet 2)
• Pad B: Draw works dead end spool cradle spotted is en route. (ViX)
• Build site: B16’s downcomer moves from Starfactory to Megabay 1. (ViX 1, ViX 2)

IFT-5:

• SpaceRhin0 summary of recovered engines.

IFT-6:

• SpaceX announce an updated target date of Tuesday Nov 19th at 16:00 CT (22:00 UTC), due to weather.

Other:

• TheSpaceEngineer creates some speculative renders based on known HLS information: Tweet 1, tweet 2, tweet 3, tweet 4, tweet 5

Thanks, good to know!

I’m curious as to why the community name is still in English, rather than something like “Gemeinschaftsförderung”.

Took me a moment. Good one.

Maybe at least now the discussions can happen there instead?

Starbase activities (2024-11-14):

• Nov 13th cryo delivery tally.
• Pad A: Overnight, B13 rolls out to Pad A. (LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2, Priel, Gisler, NSF 1, NSF 2, NSF 3, SpaceX, NSF livestream)
• B13 is lifted onto the launch mount. (LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer, Priel, NSF, D Wise, cnunez 1, cnunez 2, cnunez 3, cnunez 4, clwphoto1)
• Ship lifting pins on the chopsticks are deployed. (ViX)
• Chopsticks close around S31. (NSF, Evans)
• S31 is stacked on B13. (NSF 1, NSF 2, NSF 3, Evans, Ramirez 1, Ramirez 2, NSF livestream)
• Golden thinks the timeline is tight for a Monday launch.
• A large piece of pipe is lifted into position near the new recondensers. (ViX)
• Pad B: The LR11000 crane is laid down, and the tip is removed and shipped out on a truck. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Build site: B16’s A5:4 section moves into Megabay 1. (ViX)
• The SpaceX “X” logo on the new offices is illuminated. (cnunez, Beyer, interstellargw, ViX)
• 8-hour road closure is scheduled for Nov 17th (08:00 to 16:00) for non-flight testing activities.

Thanks for investigating!

Boil 'em, mash 'em, eat 'em in your bed

Starbase activities (2024-11-13):

• Nov 12th cryo delivery tally.
• Nov 12th addendum: Pad A photos from Starship Gazer. (Ship 31, nose test tiles, launch mount, aft flaps being secured)
• Build site: Overnight, all three of S34’s outer transfer tubes are lifted to the installation jig in Megabay 2. (ViX)
• Booster transport stand arrives at the build site and enters Megabay 1. (ViX)
• B13 is transferred onto the transport stand and emerges from Megabay 1 in preparation for rollout. (ViX 1, ViX 2 (employee photo op), LabPadre, Starship Gazer, Golden 1, Golden 2, clwphoto1, NSF livestream)
• B16’s A5:4 section is staged outside Megabay 1. (ViX, Gisler 1, Gisler 2)
• cnunez posts a photo of three nosecones in Starfactory, likely for S35, S36, and S37.
• Office construction continues. Application of the SpaceX logo begins. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3, Gisler)
• Pad B: The LR11000 is being prepared to be laid down prior to IFT-6. (ViX)
• Pad A: S31 has a banana on each side. (Gisler, cnunez)
• 14-hour road closures are posted for Nov 18th, 19th, and 20th (all 08:00 to 22:00), for flight testing activities, presumably IFT-6.
• NOTAM and NOTMAR are posted for IFT-6.

McGregor:

• A Raptor 3 has a hard start a rough start on the horizontal stand. (Hayden / NSF)

“disproven hypothesis”

Also, you need a relay capability when the sun is in the way. But are such relays expected to be beneficial even at other times? Will SpaceX find a way to make them beneficial?

If we stick some relays at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 Lagrange points, they could potentially be used when any planet or spacecraft happens to be behind the Sun, not just Mars.

interesting that Spaceflight Now did a tweet thread on this NASA presentation, but didn’t consider it worth an article

Haha, same. I kept waiting to post SFN’s own article, and it didn’t come.