Possible Water Deluge Hardware Spotted Near the OLM | SpaceX Boca Chica

As the orbital site rebuild continues, gas cylinders potentially for the deluge were seen at the launch site. These cylinders may power the deluge system during launch. Also more damaged pieces were removed from the launch mount.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Ship 26
0:16 The Rocket Garden
0:30 Work on New Buildings
1:23 The Mega Bay
1:53 Mega Bay Extension
2:22 Nominal Segment Delivery
3:07 Water Pumped From Trench
3:23 Rebar Lowered Into Hole
4:05 Concrete Poured Into Hole
4:45 Work Continues Into the Night
5:09 Cryo Pipes Removed
5:30 Set of Rebar Installed
5:45 Concrete Poured
6:14 Foundation Work Around the OLM
7:34 Booster Quick Disconnect
8:11 The Orbital Launch Tower
8:50 Conduit Laid in Trench
9:41 Tracking Dish Moved
9:56 Ship 29’s Nosecone Lifted
10:10 Drilling Rig Hard at Work
10:22 Rebar Lowered Into the New Hole
10:32 Tremie Pipe Lowered
10:53 And Concrete Poured Into the Hole
11:04 Conduit Pulled Further
11:28 The Orbital Launch Mount
11:50 High Pressure Gas Cylinders
12:04 Removed Cryo Pipes
12:21 Orbital Launch Tower
12:38 Scaffolding on the OLM
12:50 The Ship Quick Disconnect
13:02 The Orbital Tank Farm
13:42 Booster Quick Disconnect
13:53 Methane Recondensers
14:02 The Chopsticks
14:13 Launch Tower Shielding
14:23 Nosecone and Barrel Sections
14:33 Methane Sump Delivered
15:13 Dirt Brought to Pit

[NASASpaceflight]

Nic is now on a well-deserved vacation for a bit, so Chris K is helping cover for him. Everyone wave at Chris K!

[MaTTK]

Watching all the machines work around the OLM sped up is kinda mesmerizing

[venturestar]

I never get tired of seeing SpaceX workers building new things.

[JustSomeCanuck]

Those sets of rebar are quite long (support for the upcoming steel plate?). It will be interesting to see aerial images of all this work.

[_SPACE_CWBY]

I can't believe that Raptor 3 has been confirmed. 19.5 millions pound of thrust is insane!

[kuo-yingwang]

Excellent coverage and annotations on the works shown in the film. It let you feels like watching a real-world scifi movie. Thank you

[Quiet_Lantern]

Cannot wait! Beefing up the OLM is fun to watch! Co-workers at my work think I am crazy for staring at the live feed all day. lol

[vermontsownboy]

Makes the hairs on back of neck stand on end considering how fast SpaceX iterates and improves their Starship process. Incredible time to be alive to witness this.

[spaceworldupdate]

Here's what I thought I saw: it looked like around 4:00... the deposits of "skinny rebar" were what Zach Golden referred to as "auger pilings" in the very center of the pad. These would be stronger than the pre-existing single-strand rebar. We also saw at least one and maybe more "fat rebar" pilings, perhaps reinforcements around the six hex points. I didn't see any cement mixers at the site, so I take your word that concrete was poured. Was it Fondag? Since the water pipes appear to not be installed yet, will they go in after the concrete is cured? Presumably the steel water plate will go on top later.

[olivierjuillet]

Nice to see some People on earth Nevers give up to upgrade our destiny

[Hooper-]

Is engine reverberations even a concern? test data showed us it should be, even more so with Raptor 3.0's. imo.

either way, hopefully the SpaceX Cape Canaveral pad/site will have both a properly sized flame divertor & deluge.

[landofstan]

The slightly sped up motion of the vehicles in the video makes the construction vehicles look like toys.

[aloufin]

you know they're cooking when the overnight flood lights go on

[CoffeeMonster]

33 Raptor V3's on the booster, 88 meganewtons of thrust...

[ovalwingnut]

I trust they gave Japan a heads -up before sending that rebar down that hole... .. Dang. Just saying. Thank you Mr. Nick

[davidb]

That method of fitting rebar in deep holes and being sure it was centered in the hole was interesting. I'd imagine pouring concrete down the centering tubes also minimizes air pockets in the pour for better strength without having to vibrate the column.

[markcummins]

Since the distance from the build site to the launch site is so long, and I see three tubular objects being lowered into the trenches, I would say that high tenson underground cables are being used here in a delta configuration. Probably in the three to twelve kilo volt range. It is very hard to pull cable in conduit that long without pull boxes installed every few hundred yards and I do not see any of them yet. Someone needs to take a pic of those three big spools, up close at their labels.

[shuaige]

Thanks for the update… working for the algorithm

[skullleader]

@8:55 It says conduit being laid in trench. They are not laying conduit, they are pulling direct burial cable with the bucket of the digger equipment.

[andrewfarrow]

Great NSF content as usual. ❤ Speeded up video, normal speed sound. Why does that work so well?