What a Week!! SpaceX Preparing Ahead of Starship's Flight 5 Next Month - SpaceX Weekly #122

This week at Starbase, with teams completing the scrapping of the old vertical cryo tanks, work continues on the new launch tower, Ship 31 resumes its test campaign and B14.1 is returned to Sanchez. Over in Florida, Falcon 9 launch and recovery operations continue ahead, while out in California, SpaceX launches their next National Reconnaissance Office launch, and Firefly launches their next Alpha rocket for NASA commercial launch services qualification.

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[vix]

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[MrHichammohsen]

Best up to the point starship updates! Thank you so much, see you next week.

[Capt.Turner]

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[RGC]

A big THX for all the great detail !!!

[farmerpete]

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[alanmcmillan]

Great progress from SppaceX, the future looke Good!

[retokaderli]

Now I feel well informed about that last week 😊. Thanks, Lab!

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[Unrealpatch]

Nate, awesome work! So much information packed into this episode. TY!

[ryann]

Love all your awesome coverage of this! THANK YOU! Next flight is gonna be EPIC!

[ThatsDave]

Champ! Saw some details that I missed... thank you!!

[dphuntsman]

Appreciate seeing all the puts- and takebacks - that real engineering and construction has to go thru to actually get things done!! Thanks. - Dave Huntsman

[Astro_Ptolemy]

10:29 I don’t know why but this is so comedic for some reason 😂

[LibertyEver]

I love these weekly updates. Huge thanks to LabPadre for this phenomenal coverage of these historic events. I'm very eager to see Starship IFT-5 in August. SpaceX is deep in the knee of the exponential development curve, making rapid progress. IFT-4 was right up there with Apollo 11 landing on the moon for excitement and species pride in technological development. It'll be a tough act to follow but I have great hopes for IFT-5.

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[uuzds]

Excellente' el Presidente' !😊

[richardknapp]

Did SpaceX already place (underground) plumbing into Pad B bsse to connect to tank farm? I don't remember seeing any video of that process.

[Papershields]

Could they build a bridge between the high bays?

[deadrose]

Chinese spy agency: thanks for showing us details on what is happening at Space X. It saves us money on our spy craft.