Quick Disconnect Arm Extension Installed | SpaceX Boca Chica

As SpaceX gears up for Booster 4 and Ship 20 proof testing, the Quick Disconnect Arm Extension was lifted and installed onto the Launch Tower. This arm will help stabilize the whole stack along with providing propellant to Starship. Meanwhile, rebar is laid for the new, wider High Bay.

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

0:00 - Sunrise Over the Launch Site
0:42 - Ship 21's Forward Dome Sleeved
1:02 - Ship 21 Barrel Section Covered with Thermal Protection System Blankets
1:23 - The Orbital Launch Site
1:41 - The LR 11350 Crane Prepares to Lift the Quick Disconnect Arm Extension
2:00 - Liquid Nitrogen is Still Being Loaded into the Orbital Tank Farm
2:20 - Crews Prepare the Quick Disconnect Arm for its Extension
2:40 - Starship Quick Disconnect Arm Extension Lifted into Place
4:10 - Starship's Quick Disconnect Arm Extension Attached
4:28 - Crews Inspect the Starship Quick Disconnect Arm
4:48 - Work Continues on the Chopsticks
5:26 - Construction of Stairs at the Propellant Production Site
5:47 - Two Cryo Shells Sit at the Propellant Production Site
6:06 - Delivery Near the Production Site
6:26 - Propellant Production Site
7:04 - Production Site Viewed from Remedios Ave
7:46 - Crews Lay Rebar for the Wide High Bay's Foundation
8:27 - Barrel Sections at the Production Site
9:00 - Liquid Nitrogen Picked Up at the Propellant Production Site
9:20 - Crane Attached to the Center Engine Thrust Simulator
10:32 - Ship 17's Aft Section Scrapping Continues
10:50 - Cryo Shell Lifted from a Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT)
11:30 - SPMT Driven Back to the Production Site

[NASASpaceflight]

0:00 - Sunrise Over the Launch Site
0:42 - Ship 21's Forward Dome Sleeved
1:02 - Ship 21 Barrel Section Covered with Thermal Protection System Blankets
1:23 - The Orbital Launch Site
1:41 - The LR 11350 Crane Prepares to Lift the Quick Disconnect Arm Extension
2:00 - Liquid Nitrogen is Still Being Loaded into the Orbital Tank Farm
2:20 - Crews Prepare the Quick Disconnect Arm for its Extension
2:40 - Starship Quick Disconnect Arm Extension Lifted into Place
4:10 - Starship's Quick Disconnect Arm Extension Attached
4:28 - Crews Inspect the Starship Quick Disconnect Arm
4:48 - Work Continues on the Chopsticks
5:26 - Construction of Stairs at the Propellant Production Site
5:47 - Two Cryo Shells Sit at the Propellant Production Site
6:06 - Delivery Near the Production Site
6:26 - Propellant Production Site
7:04 - Production Site Viewed from Remedios Ave
7:46 - Crews Lay Rebar for the Wide High Bay's Foundation
8:27 - Barrel Sections at the Production Site
9:00 - Liquid Nitrogen Picked Up at the Propellant Production Site
9:20 - Crane Attached to the Center Engine Thrust Simulator
10:32 - Ship 17's Aft Section Scrapping Continues
10:50 - Cryo Shell Lifted from a Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT)
11:30 - SPMT Driven Back to the Production Site

[RasakBlood]

It is all slowly coming together. Man i can not wait for the first test launch and the first future tower catch attempt. Madness and genius.

[dcf]

What gets me is that all this is completely experimental while being done like it has been done 1, 000 times before. Absolutely busting to see it all work.

[mojomiah]

Like the progress being made on the quick disconnect arm extension.

[floof]

12:00 another day sets as our hero rides off into the sunset and into the Texas wilderness

[seank]

Thanks, Mary and Nate. I look forward to the Boca Chica sunrise every day!

[Rachel.]

Mary, your photography is stunning! 👏🏼❤

[badrinair]

Thank you Mary, NIc and the NSF team for brining this amazing footage to us. The QD arm looks massive and hard to believe that it is all hanging off three hinges behind the launch tower. awsome stuff

[zaz]

Absolutely fantastic work as always! Mary and team...a yearly development video could be interesting to wrap up each year! 'Archive' the key moments. So in 10 years there's an organically produced 10 hour series that captures a decade of progress unlike anything else...

[Soundfrogz]

I just adore the combination of sunrises and rocket development! It's beautifully profound and poetic! In a time of trouble for our world, little else gives me more hope for humanity's future than seeing this.

[robertcash]

Impressive product NSF, you are the goto-resource to stay up to date on all things Starbase.

[greyape]

08:39 New welding process looking good!

[scottymoondogjakubin]

Looked like a busy day ! well busier than normal ! pretty cool how everything is coming together ! and great job you all at nasa spaceflight !

[iansmith]

Everyday the Qd arm gets higher, the anticipation rises astronomically

[Nainara]

Those guys are pretty skilled to be able to do machinery work on a swaying man-lift like at 4:40.

[makespace]

My daily dose of inspiration consumed. Thank you!

[shirleyhenriksen]

Good on ya Mary cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

[JimmysAU]

This is the future; this is how I imagine spacecraft will be built from now on. By construction workers in hard hats, using heavy equipment and welders; not by lab technicians in white coats and hair nets. It reminds me of the beginning of the Star Trek remake where they are building the Enterprise out on the open plains of Iowa, with a huge construction platform around it.

[OverallGeneral]

Thank you Mary and NSF team for brining this amazing footage of Quick Disconnect Arm Extension.

[JodiFCobb]

SPMT looks powerful in person! To think of what can carry? MORE wheels (trucks)