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STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — This week at Starbase, testing continues at the Massey outpost on the block-three booster test tank, and work continues at the launch site. Crews are getting Pad One ready for flight 11 and bringing Pad Two into operation as quickly as possible.
Flight 11th's launch is scheduled for Oct. 13. How much work does SpaceX have left for Pad One before it is ready for stacking booster 15 and ship 38?
Reconstruction at the Massey outpost test site continued with the installation of new pipe racking, as work to replace the damaged propellant infrastructure progresses.
Now with pre-flight testing complete on ship 38, the static fire adapter ring has been relocated to the build site, with no more block two ships to test. It will likely be scrapped soon.
Following a stay in Mega Bay one booster 12, which performed the first successful catch on flight five, was brought out and taken to the rocket garden.
Test Tank B 18.3 passed through a third round of cryo testing as engineers continue their testing and evaluation of the block three boosters' design.
Back at the launch site, over at Pad Two, the chopstick stabilizer arms went through the first rounds of testing.
SpaceX, LR 11,000 crane was laid down for partial disassembly as workers prepared to reconfigure the crane for the next phase of construction at Pad Two.
Several leased boom sections were hauled off-site, as well as the crane's hook blocks.
After three flights without recap videos, SpaceX released a recap video for flight 10th on YouTube. The app X showed some excellent footage of the launch, flight, payload deployment, relight test, re-entry, and landing.
The FAA released a notice to Airmen for potential hazard zones for Starship Flight 11th, covering the Caribbean between Cuba and the Bahamas. This area saw ship re-entry debris during flights 7th and 8th.
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