Starbase activities (2025-08-06):

• Aug 5th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)

• Launch site: Overnight, workers begin reinstalling the ship static fire adapter plumbing. (ViX)

• Build site: B16 moves from Megabay 1 to the rocket garden. (NSF 1, NSF 2, LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2)

• B12 moves from the rocket garden to Megabay 1. (NSF, ViX 1, ViX 2, Starship Gazer, TrackingTheSB)

Flight 10:

• Local Notice to Mariners (LNM) indicates launch is NET Aug 16th. (NSF / NeedPizza, navcen.uscg.gov (PDF warning))

Timeline (Elon time):

Slight chance of Starship flight to Mars crewed by Optimus in Nov/Dec next year. A lot needs to go right for that.

More likely, first flight without humans in ~3.5 years, next flight ~5.5 years with humans.

Mars city self-sustaining in 20 to 30 years.

McGregor:

• R580 leaves the test area, then returns. (SpaceRhin0 1, SpaceRhin0 2, SpaceRhin0 3)
• R3.3- is spotted. (SpaceRhin0)
• R3.24 returns to the test area. (SpaceRhin0)

Starbase activities (2025-08-05):

• Aug 4th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Aug 4th addendum: All fifteen hold-down clamps which were reinstalled on the Pad 1 launch mount were removed. (ViX)
• Massey’s: Interstellar Gateway posts recent flyover photos of the ongoing repairs to the Massey static fire stand and surrounding infrastructure. (IGW 1, IGW 2)
• Build site: Vacuum raptor swap on S37. R514 departs Megabay 2, R4x3 (463?) enters. (ViX, SpaceRhin0)
• Booster transport stand enters Megabay 1, possibly to move B16 to the rocket garden. (NSF, ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Launch site: Ship static fire adapter is lifted back on to the Pad 1 launch mount. (NSF 1, NSF 2, ViX, Starship Gazer)
• Construction begins on a “Megabunker” near the D2 gate. (Starship Gazer, Gisler)

McGregor:

• R3.29 is spotted. (SpaceRhin0)

Seems like that’s definitely a possibility at this point. Though should it technically be named OFT-3?

!python@sopuli.xyz should probably be consolidated towards !python@programming.dev.

Consolidation suggestions for !privacy@sopuli.xyz:

!privacy@programming.dev or !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Discussion and links here: https://lemmy.zip/post/45491339

Starbase activities (2025-08-04):

• Aug 3rd cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Launch site: The LR11000 crane moves from Pad 1 to Pad 2. (ViX)
• The ship static fire adapter moves from Pad 1 to Sanchez. (ViX)
• The Pad 1 chopsticks open and lower. (ViX)
• Removal of ship quick disconnect infrastructure from the Pad 1 launch mount continues. (Anderson)
• Fifteen out of twenty hold-down clamps are reinstalled on the Pad 1 launch mount, but then removed. (ViX, rocketjunkie94)
• Build site: Booster transport stand arrives. (efraser77 / NSF)

Florida:

• The FAA released the Draft Environmental Assessment for Starship launches for LC-39A. (Alexphysics13, FAA page, Executive summary (50-page PDF), Draft EIS (410-page PDF))
• A cryo tank from Aritas is delivered in Port Canaveral. Could be destined for SpaceX, or for another launch company. (Cornwell)

McGregor:

• New highest serial number: RVAC R2.580 is spotted. (SpaceRhin0)

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lvlsh2esfs2g

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Starlink 10-30

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1952294115972145380

Deployment of 28 @Starlink satellites confirmed

Well, I did indeed have no idea I was an evolutionary biologist…

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

Edit: M-vac shutdown, nominal orbit insertion.

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

Liftoff!

If they are wild squirrels, why are they inside? Did a tragedy befall their nest/parents? :(

What did 7 do that XP did not?

Starbase activities (2025-08-03):

• Aug 2nd cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Pad 2: Overnight, the SpaceX LR11000 lifts the LOX booster quick disconnect hood into place. (ViX)
• Build site: The Starlink loading box moves from Megabay 2 back to Starfactory. (ViX)
• S38 moves from the central workstation to one of the left workstations. (ViX)
• S37 moves from Pad 1 to Megabay 2. (NSF, LabPadre, ViX)
• S37 is transferred to the front left workstand in Megabay 2. (ViX)
• Both continuous flight auger drills are lowered, likely indicating that drilling is complete. (ViX)
• Pad 1: Workers begin uninstalling the ship static fire adapter plumbing. (Starship Gazer, NSF, Anderson)
• The SpaceX LR11000 crane removes the ship static fire adapter from the launch mount. (NSF 1, NSF 2, LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer)
• Other: SpaceX post a slowmotion upskirt video from the recent S37 six-engine static fire.

The poles of the moon have regions which are more permanently in sunlight/shadow. The Argonaut lander mentioned in the article is destined for the south pole.

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lvg2lunuec2o

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Starlink 13-4

Starbase activities (2025-08-02):

• Aug 1st cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Pad 1: Ship transport stand and raptor work platform arrive. (ViX)
• Ship quick disconnect interface is removed from the launch mount. (ViX)
• S37 is removed from the launch mount. (Starship Gazer, wvmattz, CeaserG33, NSF)
• Pad 2: The LOX booster quick disconnect hood is delivered. (ViX)
• Road Delay for “Post-SF Transport” is posted for Aug 3rd from 02:00 to 06:00. (cityofstarbase-texas, archive)

There should be a switch in your left armpit, no?

The community does exist, but the moderator of DDOI does not wish to link to it in the sidebar: !nosafetysmokingfirst@sh.itjust.works

It’s also not a perfect NSSF either, as “return here please carts” is also not the intended reading order.