Ship 24 Comes Alive with Flap Testing | SpaceX Boca Chica

Ship 24 comes alive as it test its forward flaps ahead of possible testing next week, the Orbital Launch Mount vented, and bridge cranes for the Starfactory arrived.

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0:00 - Sunrise
0:22 - Venting From the Orbital Launch Mount
0:50 - The Orbital Launch Mount
1:07 - Work on the Chopsticks and Launch Mount
1:56 - The Orbital Tank Farm
2:29 - Ship 24
3:45 - B7.1 Test Tank
4:15 - Bridge Cranes for Starfactory
5:16 - Starlink Loader Building
5:34 - Starfactory
5:51 - Oversize Load Trailer.
6:35 - Starfactory
6:49 - Quad Barrel Section
7:06 - Ship 25 Nosecone
7:23 - Ship Forward Dome
7:43 - A Booster Gridfin
8:02 - Scrapped Sections of Booster 5
8:20 - Delivery to the Production Site
8:37 - The Rocket Garden
8:54 - Work Inside Ship 22
9:09 - Ship 24 Moves it's Forward Flaps

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0:00 - Sunrise
0:22 - Venting From the Orbital Launch Mount
0:50 - The Orbital Launch Mount
1:07 - Work on the Chopsticks and Launch Mount
1:56 - The Orbital Tank Farm
2:29 - Ship 24
3:45 - B7.1 Test Tank
4:15 - Bridge Cranes for Starfactory
5:16 - Starlink Loader Building
5:34 - Starfactory
5:51 - Oversize Load Trailer.
6:35 - Starfactory
6:49 - Quad Barrel Section
7:06 - Ship 25 Nosecone
7:23 - Ship Forward Dome
7:43 - A Booster Gridfin
8:02 - Scrapped Sections of Booster 5
8:20 - Delivery to the Production Site
8:37 - The Rocket Garden
8:54 - Work Inside Ship 22
9:09 - Ship 24 Moves it's Forward Flaps

[cipedead]

It was waving. How cute to see it was waving to us all. “Hi Ship 24 good luck and hope to see you fly soon”

[mpendulojwara]

These videos are always a nice way to catch up on what's happening at Starbase 🙂

[ericacidtreat]

It's gonna flap its way to space!

[tekish]

It's so exciting seeing this whole effort coming full circle. With the nearing completion of the first section of the Starfactory we will witness a new generation of Starship coming to fruition. I'm so excited by the upcoming test of the booster whether it's 7 or 8 doesn't matter much to me. The design is basically the same. But when everything is said and done the information that SpaceX has accumulated for the last few years will come out of the massive Starfactory as the next age of Space flight.

[geraldmarshall]

I’m amazed at the speed of that flutter! Like a multi ton guitar pick!

[badrinair]

Thank you Mary and NSF team for sharing this footage with us. if S24 is flappy, then I am all clappy!! i plan to take few hours of work to watch this first launch.

[Mr.bloxy_UwU]

Like how all the video's start with a sunrise!

[ejcorreia]

Caption at 9:18 ... "It's" is short for "it is." "Its" (no apostrophe) is for EVERYTHING ELSE!

[markknister]

We are so excited over flaps flap? YES!

[vansetproductions]

These are very therapeutic, thank you.

[jacobpothoven]

The OLT looks good after the cleaning and new paint job. You know, ‘just before a visit of an inspector’-good.
“A big what? Explosion? Here?! A couple of weeks ago?! Really… huh, didn’t notice…”

[favesongslist]

Venus wants to be part of the action as well :)
Great capture guys TY.

[Klaatu-ijuz]

10:05 -- It's funny how most of us were worried about the heat tiles. Now that they're installed in perfect-fashion they don't seem like a big deal any longer. Hope they stay intact during flight, though.

[sdebeaubien]

Static fires imminent. B7 down for ... another week? Thanks for keeping us updated! Nice pics / vids Mary!

[wjb]

Its so cute flapping the flappy flaps.
Give it a cookie.

[sherrypeterson]

I like that it tells you what your looking at in the bottom left corner.

[sunside]

S24 looks ready, tho. much more refined than previous instances, and much more detail. heat tiles now have the appearance of space shuttle the way they round out on the back side of the craft.
can't wait to see this biatch flying.

[rolflandale]

Nice decal spot 9:41 (it waves with its wings).

[bradleymarks]

We know it can't take a bow but it certainly can wave to its fans...