Starbase activities (2024-01-16):

• B13 methane tank stacking begins.
• 8th horizontal tank is delivered to launch site and slotted into position.
• Not sure who's keeping track, but there have apparently been 400 LN2 deliveries to the launch site since IFT-2.

Starbase activities (2024-01-27):

• Quiet Saturday.
• S28 rolls out of Highbay and then to Rocket Garden. StarGazer photo and nose closeup.
• Starkitty sighted :)

Other:

• 6-Tier Open Parking Garage to be constructed.

Starbase activities (2024-01-26):

• 12th stringer installed on the OTF shells.
• Many boom lifts at the OLM. OLM legs are painted, and tower received blast protection.
• Assembly of launch tower sections begins with a vertical column.
• B10 hotstaging ring moves from Starfactory to Megabay 1 and is installed on B10.
• Door is installed on Megabay 1 :(
• Starfactory progress: Morning and evening. More columns and beams added.

With some nitter instances down or rate limited, I'm trying out twiiit, which should automatically redirect to a working instance.

Starbase activities (2024-01-10):

• GSE-8 scrapping continues, tank base removed as well. Workers inspecting remaining tank shells. Unclear if this indicates further removals in the coming days.
• Cement truck delivery to the launch site, likely replacement Fondag for test stand B.
• S30 moves from Massey's to Rocket Garden, then to High Bay.
• S31 receives her 2nd aft flap and emerges from the High Bay.
• B12 cryo test at Massey's.
• Tent #3 shutting down and contents being emptied. Demolition likely coming soon, ahead of further Starfactory expansion.
• Big lifting machine lifts a smaller lifting machine.

Starbase activities (2024-01-28):

• S26 lifted off engine install stand, and rolls further into Rocket Garden.
• S28 lifted onto engine install stand. (closeup video)
• Reinforcement of OTF tank shells continues.
• A tank is removed from suborbital farm and replaced with another. The removed tank then moves to Massey's.
• Starfactory progress: Large boxes (possibly air-conditioners) lifted onto roof.
• S26: Couplers are added to join the 2nd and 3rd rows of stringers. Mystery continues.
• Starkitty sighted :)

Starbase activities (2024-01-09):

• Weather improves.
• At the launch site, the LR11000 removes the first of the vertical inner tanks (GSE #8) and scrapping begins.
• At the build site, an unknown nosecone with only a few TPS pins emerges from a tent.
• S26 disconnected from LR1750 again. S26 mystery continues.
• At Massey's, S30 moves a tiny bit, possibly in advance of transport back to build site.

Other:

• IFT-3 is NET February, as per Jessica Jensen, VP of Customer Operations and Integration at SpaceX. (Reported by Eric Berger and Jeff Foust)
• Not too surprising, but Artemis II officially slips to 2025-09, and Artemis III slips to 2026-09.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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Have you considered migrating to a magazine on Kbin/MBin?

The daily updates are quite useful but currently my means of finding them is via your posts in Reddit. The post views in Lemmy discourage you to go into spaces and I don't think thread pinning translates accross instances.

KBin/Mbin support the short message format in Activity Pub so creating a thread on that platform should reflect into Mastodon and Mastodon comments will come through into the post. If you add a couple of hashtags it would also help discoverability.

Your posts are the most useful ones for daily summaries and probably the most useful contribution to the reddit starship dev thread.

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