Potential Starship Version 2 Header Tank Spotted | SpaceX Boca Chica

What appeared to be a Ship LOX header tank with a new design was spotted. Meanwhile, one of the Orbital Tank Farm's water tanks was scrapped.

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✂️ Edited by Thomas Hayden.

L2 Boca Chica (more clips and photos) from BC's very early days to today.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Booster Transport Stand Moved
0:14 Water Tank Scrapped
4:37 GSE-8 Shell Removed
5:41 GSE-8 Shell Scrapped
5:57 GSE Tank Loadspreader Arrives
6:13 Ship 26 Exits the Rocket Garden
6:24 The Gulf of Mexico
6:36 The Orbital Launch Site
6:45 The Orbital Tank Farm
6:53 The Orbital Launch Mount
7:34 The Production Site
7:42 Asphalt Added to Side of Highway 4
8:13 Sections Inside Starfactory
8:32 Ship 32 and 31 in the High Bay
8:43 Ship 26
8:52 LOX Header Tank Spotted
9:25 The Ring Yard
9:38 Work Beside Starfactory
10:34 Grackles Enjoying the Weather
11:11 GSE-8 Shell Scrapping Continues
13:05 Nitrogen Delivery
13:19 The Production Site
14:08 Water Release From the OLM
14:31 Ship 26 Disconnected From Crane
14:54 The Production Site
15:24 Test Hot Staging Ring Moved
15:39 Vehicle Sections in Starfactory
15:51 Other Equipment in Starfactory
16:10 GSE-8 Removed
17:10 GSE-8 Aft Dome Removed

[russmarkham]

Those DIY vertical tanks were a bit of a failure i guess. They need the space for other GSE I expect. Looking forward to IFT 3

[oldmanstumpie]

4:31 What a lovely tribute to our Opera House in Sydney Australia.

[maddogUK]

Love Sean's slo-mo and timelapse shots in this!

[blairbuchanan]

Nice camera work, Sean. Good depth of field, composition and exposure. Thanks

[MickRonald]

Happy to say I am a watcher of the Texas Tank Cutters, but only here. Family and friends would not understand why I'd spend time doing so:) BTW, the "cutters" put on a nice fireworks show of their own. Thanks Sean, SBL camera operators, Thomas, and Jack.

[NormandyDucks]

Well put together whoever did the editing knows his stuff thank you NSF.

[alecgriffiths]

This video is a work of art! Also, I was pleasantly surprised to see that SN2 still exists. It's the little test-tank that was the first to survive a cryo test since the Starhopper days.

[mrdebris]

Nice shot. If you see a nitrogen truck would fit comfortably under that crane you get an idea how huge this thing is. 13:12

[seank]

Thanks Sean and Thomas. Everything about this video is superb. I liked the use of slo mo.

[charleslord]

I remember back when they dropped the last shell in place thinking that we would never see those tanks again... 😆

[pipersall]

Really great camera work. Love the nature scenes mixed in with the Starbase content. Thank you!

[dphuntsman]

This is great work, Sean and Team! Please keep them coming! - Dave Huntsman

[mevalemadre]

I like the wildlife shots intermingled when you get them. Haven't seen Zeus and Apollo robot dogs "wildlife" for a while... they still around?

[nandisaand]

I remember watching those things get built right here on NSF

[michaeldeierhoi]

Good looks at those grackles at 10:36 which are actually Great-tailed grackles.

[corrinastanley]

Thanks Sean and the NSF team, great recap.

[astranger]

still remembering the old days of building the orbital tank farm

[forgegamer]

10:34 ya this gotta be one of the best parts of the video 😂

[BrewCityChaser]

Wasn't expecting this entire video to be shot in slow motion but pretty cool photography.

[oldmanstumpie]

Not sure what's more fun, watching the destruction of old stuff or the creation of new stuff.