Teslarati
JANUARY 31, 2023
SpaceX has installed a pair of rocket-catching arms on a tower meant to support the first East Coast launches of its next-generation Starship rocket. SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020. SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019.
Teslarati
JULY 26, 2021
High bay construction, September 2020. Construction of the existing high bay began in May 2020 and was more or less complete by the start of 2021. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal). Musk’s assertion that the new facility will be “much larger” can be interpreted a number of ways.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Starship SN10’s three-engine thrust puck, September 2020. Combined with a ring of 20 fixed Raptor Boost (RB) engines installed on the inside of Super Heavy’s aft skirt, a 13-engine puck will allow SpaceX to install up to 33 engines on Super Heavy boosters. NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal).
Cars That Think
APRIL 18, 2024
To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020. A new X-band cone was installed. DSS-43 transmits radio signals in the X (8 to 12 gigahertz) and S (2 to 4 GHz) bands; it can receive signals in the X, S, L (1 to 2 GHz), and K (12 to 40 GHz) bands.
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 26, 2021
Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. Blue Origin once projected the first launch of the rocket to be in 2020.
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