Booster Common Dome Section Flipped | SpaceX Boca Chica

A Booster common dome section was flipped, work on Booster 4 and Ship 20 continued, and an aft flap alignment jig was spotted attached to Ship 21 ahead of flap installation.

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

0:00 - Sunrise
0:18 - The Launch Site
0:35 - Crews Work on Ship 20
3:47 - Orbital Tank Farm Construction
4:39 - Orbital Launch Mount Construction
5:12 - Orbital Launch Mount and Chopsticks
5:28 - Quick Disconnect Arm
5:45 - Crews Work on Booster 4
7:28 - Aft Flap Alignment Jig on Ship 21
8:10 - Ship 21 (left), and Ship 22 (right) in the Mid Bay
8:33 - Wide Bay Construction
9:06 - Barrel Sections at the Production Site
9:46 - Booster Quick Disconnect Hood
10:03 - Ship 21 Nosecone Construction
10:49 - Booster 5 in the High Bay
11:16 - Flip Rig Attached to Crane
11:59 - Booster Common Dome Section Flipped

[NASASpaceflight]

0:00 - Sunrise
0:18 - The Launch Site
0:35 - Crews Work on Ship 20
3:47 - Orbital Tank Farm Construction
4:39 - Orbital Launch Mount Construction
5:12 - Orbital Launch Mount and Chopsticks
5:28 - Quick Disconnect Arm
5:45 - Crews Work on Booster 4
7:28 - Aft Flap Alignment Jig on Ship 21
8:10 - Ship 21 (left), and Ship 22 (right) in the Mid Bay
8:33 - Wide Bay Construction
9:06 - Barrel Sections at the Production Site
9:46 - Booster Quick Disconnect Hood
10:03 - Ship 21 Nosecone Construction
10:49 - Booster 5 in the High Bay
11:16 - Flip Rig Attached to Crane
11:59 - Booster Common Dome Section Flipped

[cmluque]

Bilingual signage at 10:41 reads: "Attention: do not move flap / Atención: no mueva la [sic] ala". It should read "el ala" but thanks anyway, we appreciate the effort! Go Space X! ¡Vamos Space X! 😉👍🏼

[Fariña_Ferre]

3:38 haha that big OK in the tile it's so funny

[infinitelyexplosive]

Has anyone done a side-by-side comparison of the tiles for S20 and S21? I feel like S21's tiles look much more well aligned, but it could just be tricks from the light.

[David-yows]

5:24 They have painted the white containers black and lined them up along the End Wall in front of the OLM. They only took about 2 days to do that. Unfortunately it blocks some of Marys video footage. Then again, the earth berm by the Highway was removed, by the Landing Pad area, so it's like life, swings and round-a-bouts, up's & down's.

[catbertz]

Man it's been windy as heck there this week!

[mrdebris]

Weird: what's that circular pattern of small irregular and triangular tiles right above the missing tile at the right? A hatch cover? 3:11

[thiesenf]

They're not flipping burgers at McDonalds... they're flipping domes at SpaceX...

[totallyunknowable]

Reduced crew at Boca for the long holiday weekend?

[poiuytrewq]

10:41 interesting that they needed to put this sign up, brings a few questions, why cant it be moved, who moved it when it shouldnt be moved to motovate this sign, why would someone be moving flaps, why cant the "dont move flaps" be mentioned in a team meeting

[stephenbrodie]

Something oddly satisfying about this transition 2:00

[laverncarroll]

Wind has totally stopped progress on the High Bay

[geekyoyd]

I have added "No mueva la ala" ("Don't move the flap") to my list of useful Spanish phrases. You never know when it might come in useful!

[gravelydon]

Anyone else notice Spacecrane says Atlas Crane and Rigging on it?

[tomasbenedictomaza]

me pregunto si todo el equipamiento que tiene la plataforma orbitar en los laterales me refiero a los armarios y demás componentes no se dañaran por el calor de los motores en el despegue de Ship 20

[MegaRomull]

Why they don't want to run first test flight without SN20? The booster has never been tested at all anyhow nowhere.... It stands like a monument. What can go wrong?

[Mr.Hellfire]

2 things: first those guys in the sky traks are fearless at the top of B4 in those boca winds!

2nd it seems like the pace of things has slowed considerably at the orbital site since getting word nothing can happen till 2022

[paperboyfromreality]

I'd love if these videos were narrated.

[nigelpalmer]

Bloody rockets and bits of rockets all over the place I wonder how many of these biguns Elon will blow up before he is happy with them I think we all aught a send Elon a couple a quid so he doesn't run out of money.

[j.v.]

With everything we know about climate change, why did Elon put these facilities so close to a location sure to be impacted in the coming years by rising sea levels?