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  • LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.eetoSpaceX@sh.itjust.works•Starship Development Thread #47English
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    1 year ago

    New comment from /u/santacfan on Reddit:

    Starbase live-

    10:52pm- More rebar to the pit

    1:46am- Something was tested on the OLM

    2:34am- Yep more rebar. (Pretty quiet night except for work in the pit)

    3:08am- More rebar into the pit. Long reach excavator appears done with the concrete

    4:17am- Forklift brings a generator over to the pit area

    4:19- B9 rolls down Remidos to Hwy 4

    4:55am- Rebar work continues around the deluge pipe pit in the cryo leg area

    6:14am- Forklift brings in a new light tower and blinds view under the OLM

    6:29am- B9 starts rolling

    7:29am- B9 turns into the launch site

    7:42am- A giant rocket rolling in isn’t going to stop the rebar work

    7:45am- B9 arrives at the pad

    7:54am- Chopsticks start rising

    7:59am- Chopsticks open

    8:12am- Booster moves closer to lift area

    8:24am- Chopsticks lower into lift position

    8:31am- More rebar lifted over

    8:50am- B9 moves in between chopsticks

    9:06am- Basket lifted up to the top of the OLM

    9:30am- Basket lowered

    9:36am- Square Piece of equipment lifted off the top

    9:41am- Piece of equipment lifted out of the pit

    9:45am- More rebar lifted over

    10:18am- More rebar. They’re really pushing on it today

    10:29am- Yep another batch of rebar. The next concrete pour has to be coming soon

    10:56am- Crane moves to right side of the OLM and lifts a rebar cage structure. Moves it over by the new stairs. I’d assume just staging for later. Then crane moves back to left side.

    11:21am- Rebar

    11:23am- PA announcement- Overhead drone work

    (This gets synced)

  • LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.eetoSpaceX@sh.itjust.works•Starship Development Thread #47English
    2·
    1 year ago

    New comment from /u/santacfan on Reddit:

    Starbase Llive-

    3:13am- Work starts back up

    4:31am- Crane picks up a light tower from in front of the OLM and swings it over to the pit on the left side

    5:08am- They are using the long reach excavators bucket to move concrete from a delivery truck to the gaps between the legs and the manifolds

    5:12am- Crane swings a load of long straight rebar over to the pit

    5:32am- Crane swings another load of rebar over to the pit

    6:49am- Final segment of the 4th level of the new mega bay is lifted

    7:45am- More rebar lifted over to the pit

    8:08am- Another load of rebar, looks like one more load sitting there waiting.

    8:23am- Workers carrying sticks of rebar over to the area between the cryo pit lid and the OLM. Other workers appear to be getting more of the gaps between the legs and manifolds ready for concrete

    9:23am- Load of rebar lifted to the pit

    9:38am- Pump truck goes up by the new cryo pit

    9:40am- Crane lifts a big ball of what looks like twisted metal out of the pit. Ghost of SN11?

    10:24am- Workers up at the SQD

    10:58am- More rebar lifted over

    11:04am- Yep you guessed it, more rebar

    11:31am- Even more rebar. (When we saw the wire mesh mats lifted over yesterday, I thought they were close to done. I was wrong)

    1:34pm- Rebar magically continues to appear out of no where. (Okay it was probably just a new delivery )

    1:36pm- Worker on top of the chopsticks looking at the rail

    2:23pm- Crane lifts black object over to the pit

    4:04pm- Pump truck folds up

    4:22pm- Crane lifts a load of supplies off of the top of the OLM

    4:35pm- Crane lifts another load off the top

    4:38pm- More rebar lifted over to the pit

    4:56pm- 3rd load off the top of the OLM. (Maybe the scaffolding out of the center? There are people climbing around on the scaffolding on the top but it doesn’t look like they are actually taking anything apart)

    6:10pm- Lift up looking at the cameras at the end of the stabilizer arms

    7:19pm- Second crane comes in and lifts what looks to be a new dog house and sits it off to the side. Looks longer like the one for the cryo leg.

    7:44pm- Second crane leaves. Doesn’t look like it’s going to install the new doghouse

    8:55pm- 2 people back up working on the SQD

    9:00pm- Gravel being dumped over by the pit on the left side. Just outside of the form work.

    9:10pm- Long reach excavator returns. Looks like it’s dumping concrete between the legs and manifolds again.

    9:25pm- Definitely doesn’t look like they are preparing for any testing tonight.

    9:45pm- I may have spoke to soon. Pad starting to clear out some. There are still people welding, grinding, and people over in the pit though

    10:14pm- More rebar lifted into the pit

    (This gets synced)

  • LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.eetoSpaceX@sh.itjust.works•Starship Development Thread #47English
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    1 year ago

    New comment from /u/santacfan on Reddit:

    Starbase Llive-

    1:15am- Scaffolding on the cryo pipe leg starting to get disassembled

    1:27am- Forklift brings rebar over to the left side pit

    1:30am- long reach excavator arrives right side of the OLM

    1:59am- Excavator starts digging on the back side of the OLM

    2:58am- Crane lifts rebar to the back side of the OLM

    4:17am- Forklift brings more rebar to the left side pit

    4:35am- B9 goes on a walk to the rocket garden

    4:43am- Crane lifts more rebar to the backside of the OLM

    7:37am- Long reach excavator leaves

    8:16am- fixing the silt fence around the left side of the OLM

    10:58am- Group of engineers/bosses surveying things

    11:32am- Forklift lifted 2 loads out of left side pit. Lift was blocking what they were though

    11:36am- Crane lifts load of straight rebar over to the left side pit

    11:50am- Lots of lifts going up and down to the top of the OLM all morning. Welders still working under the OLM. Excavators still digging over by the left side pit. Lift up at the LOX tank of S25.

    12:38pm- Lift goes up to the top left skate on the chopsticks. Hopefully with some really good grease

    1:04pm- Box lifted off the top of the OLM by the crane

    1:51pm- BQD hood is getting painted

    2:13pm- Scaffolding being removed that went to the door on the right side of the OLM

    3:29pm- Wire mesh mats lifted over to the pit on the left

    4:05pm- They made pretty quick work of the scaffolding on the right side

    4:16pm- Lift goes up to the left chopsticks stabilizer arm

    4:42pm- Forklift brings in a load of rebar and drops it off at the dirt berm leading up to the front edge of the pad.

    4:52pm- More rebar brought over

    7:57pm- Pad clear announcement (Can be heard better on Rover 2)

    8:05pm- They don’t appear to be removing all the equipment like yesterday

    8:12pm- B10 getting frosty at Massey’s. (Raptor Roost caught it one minute earlier at 8:11. Both tanks already had frost)

    8:32pm- Frost receding

    8:48pm- Something is rolling towards Starbase from Masseys

    8:50pm- Sheriff at the launch site entrance

    8:58pm- Big vent at the OTF. (Are we redoing the test from the other night but with a full closure just in case?)

    9:05pm- It’s the new puck shucker being moved from Masseys

    9:39pm- OLM and OLT venting

    9:43pm- FireX

    9:49pm- New water nozzles around the underside of the OLM?

    10:21pm- Depress vent from the OLT and OLM

    10:39pm- Workers to the pad. Road still closed

    11:03pm- Workers leaving the pad

    11:15pm- Venting picking up again

    11:20pm- Venting starts dying off

    11:50pm- Picking up again

    11:55pm- Dies off again (Just testing the valve over and over?)

    12:04am- Cars back to the pad

    12:09am- The cars aren’t keeping the venting from increasing again

    12:12am- Pope stack

    12:20am- Dies off again

    12:45am- Bunch of cars to the pad. Road open.

    (This gets synced)

  • LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.eetoSpaceX@sh.itjust.works•Starship Development Thread #47English
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    1 year ago

    Booster 9 has been moved to the rocket garden.

    https://twitter.com/nasaspaceflight/status/1681282819014705152

    I wonder what that means for the next launch. Booster readiness seems like one of the top remaining items now, with the booster needing the hot stage ring for the ship to fit now. Will they do fit tests / static fires first? Or maybe prepare a different booster with the extra ring?

    One other approach could be that the extra ring “clips on” the existing staging hardware. Would mean that no changes to the booster are necessary, and if they later decide not to risk hot staging they could possibly do a traditional staging approach, leaving the ring attached to the ship instead? Sounds pretty crazy but you never know.

  • LettuceTurnipTheBeet@lemm.eetoSpaceX@sh.itjust.works•Starship Development Thread #46BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m really impressed by how quickly the plate is getting assembled. I didn’t expect the manifolds to get added for another week or so, and now they’re at 2 / 3.

    I’m not sure what the bottleneck is at the moment. Once everything is lifted in place they can move B9 over, but they might want to wait until they hit stage adapter is added.

    B9 could go through spin prime tests without the plane being ready, and the plate can get tested without all deluge water & gas tanks present. We’re also it sure how far along the other OLM repairs are (cryo pipes are still being replaced). So there’s a ton of stuff happening in parallel.

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