Latest from Starbase with LabPadre: March 13

BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — After last week's semi-successful launch and catch of Booster 15 in Ship 34, SpaceX moves the third cot booster back to the build site for analysis.

Ship 35 is prepped for a static fire and the build out of Ship 36 continues.

Now, let's dig into the rest of this week's update.

At the tank farm, several of the newly installed vaporizers were affected by last week's Flight 8 launch.

One particularly damaged unit was no longer vertical after being subjected to the forces of the launch.

Amid the damage, crews began lowering Booster 15 back into the launch mount. After it was locked onto the launch mount, it was safed before it was brought back to the build site.

Once the road was reopened, the boosted transport stand began heading to the launch site and was taken to Pad A to pick up the return super heavy back at the build site.

The transfer tube installation jig with a full set of fuel transfer tubes was moved over to Ship 36 in the evening.

Interestingly, these lines were redesigned for Starship V2 and the individual feed tubes to the vacuum. Raptors may well be the culprit of the last two ship failures.

After the fuel lines were installed, the header tank liquid oxygen supply line was also added to Ship 36.

Our team has been monitoring this new development and it seems the concrete floor on the western triangular corner of Star Factory is being ripped up in preparation of a huge upgrade to merge with the new Giga Bay.

On Saturday, after the successful catch of Booster 15, crews mounted the booster to the transport stand and moved it to the build site and into Mega Bay One, where all engines and systems will be checked for post launch analysis.

Over the next couple of days, ground crews disconnected and removed the three damaged vaporizers. These systems convert the liquid oxygen and liquid methane into a usable gas form, which powers the turbines and pumps and then finally combusted in the Raptor engines.

For this week, shortly after midnight on Monday morning, Ship 35 was brought out of high bay to be rolled out to the Massey's test site.

It will go through cryo proof-testing and eventually a six-engine static fire.

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