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JUNE 21, 2021

Ten days and one unexpected detour after SpaceX drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) departed Port Canaveral, Florida for what could be the last time ever, the ship has arrived at the Panama Canal. Barring surprises, OCISLY and Mighty Servant 1 will transit no later than Friday, June 25th.

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JUNE 27, 2021

For the third time ever, one of SpaceX’s “autonomous spaceport drone ships” has successfully transited the Panama Canal on its way to a new home port. OCISLY droneship has cleared the Panama Canal and is heading to a new home at the Port of Long Beach, CA. por toda la información! Aprendí mucho!

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JUNE 7, 2021

Minutes later, SpaceX began loading unusual hardware onto the drone ship and it soon became clear that preparations were underway to transport OCISLY from Florida to California. The post SpaceX outfits drone ship for Panama Canal transit after 45th booster recovery appeared first on TESLARATI.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Formerly stationed in California, drone ship Just Read The Instructions (JRTI) was transported from Port of Los Angeles to Port Canaveral, inspected, and substantially upgraded between August 2019 and May 2020. Mighty Servant 1 is a massive submersible heavy-lift ship. — Eric Ralph (@13ericralph31) June 10, 2021.

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JUNE 28, 2021

A few weeks after Shotwell’s comments, SpaceX signed a lease for new dock space and rocket processing facilities and moved its years-old West Coast recovery operations from Port of Los Angeles to adjacent Port of Long Beach facilities soon after. Around May 27th, Falcon 9 booster B1049 was trucked into VAFB. Richard Angle).

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APRIL 27, 2021

That includes a ~5600 square meter (~65,000 sq ft) warehouse and office space formerly used to process SeaLaunch payloads and Ukrainian Zenit rockets, as well as a pier and dock space generally optimized for loading and unloading large rockets from rocket transport ships. In other words, Pier 16 is a perfect fit for SpaceX’s needs.

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MAY 28, 2021

Now, amidst a major hiring spree and rare new activity at a nearby Los Angeles port, SpaceX is clearly gearing up to return its SLC-4E launch pad to active duty. Transporting either to California will take several weeks, limiting SpaceX’s East Coast launch cadence during that period.

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