Happy cake day!

Starbase activities (2025-07-11):

• Jul 10th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Build site: Overnight, two more R-vacs are delivered. Megabay 2 should contain a full set of engines for S37, plus an extra R-vac. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Massey’s: An LR1300 crane is delivered and assembled. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• Launch site: At Pad 2, the top part of the LOX booster quick disconnect cover is lifted into place. (ViX)
• At Pad 1, modifications to the booster quick disconnect hood to support ship testing continue. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3, Priel, rocketjunkie94, Anderson, Golden)

Happy cake day!

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Pixilart

https://www.pixilart.com/draw

A free online pixel art tool, useful for creating templates.

In the ‘COLORS’ tab, there is an “Import Palette” function, where you can paste in a comma-separated string of hex codes.

List of hex codes for all 33 colours in the 2025 palette:

ffffff,b9c3cf,777f8c,424651,1f1e26,000000,382215,c06f37,fead6c,ffd2b1,ffa4d0,f14fb4,e973ff,a630d2,531d8c,242367,0334bf,149cff,8df5ff,02bfa5,16777e,054523,18862f,61e021,b1ff37,ffffa5,fde111,ff9f17,f66e08,550022,99011a,f30f0c,ff7872

Group Finder & Templating Information

As long as he attacks first, he’ll be fine, right?

Starbase activities (2025-07-10):

• Jul 9th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Build site: Overnight, three engines arrive at Megabay 2, presumably for S37, bringing the total to two R-center and two R-vacuum Raptors. (LabPadre, ViX 1, ViX 2, NSF, Planatus666)
• Killip posts some speculative renders on the interior of the recently installed booster transfer tube / header tank. (Killip 1, Killip 2, Killip 3)
• Gisler posts a zoomed photo of a header tank in Starfactory.
• Launch site: At Pad A, a structure to support flexible hoses for ship propellant filling is installed via a hole cut in the back of the booster quick disconnect hood. (Anderson / NSF)
• Seagull.
• RGV conduct a flyover. (photos, video) (Edit: These are from Jul 4th)

Florida:

• Steel pieces are delivered for the flame trench at LC-39A. (Anderson / NSF)

Yeah, it’s a solid bunch. We’re coming up on ten years since the first Falcon 9 booster landing. Multiple chinese companies are developing F9 clones. Europe really ought to be testing reusable boosters by now. Hopefully at least one of these will work out.

Starbase activities (2025-07-09):

• Jul 8th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Build site: Header tank is installed in B18, the first Block 3 booster. (SpaceX, Manley, Elon 1, Elon 2)
• Launch site: The methane pump that was installed the previous day receives its motor. (ViX)

Another example of why cars maybe shouldn’t be driven by humans.

I count four negations in the headline.

• removal
• injunction blocking
• appeal
• rejects

(-1)⁴ = +1

So… yes to bike lanes?

Happy cake day!

Starbase activities (2025-07-08):

• Jul 7th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Massey’s: Clean up continues. Two vaporizers are toppled. (LabPadre)
• Build site: The first pile of the Gigabay foundation is placed. (LabPadre, ViX 1, ViX 2, Golden)
• The black LTR1220 crane lifts 6 legs into the front right side of Megabay 2, likely for construction of a new work stand. (ViX)
• Launch site: The LOX booster quick disconnect hood back plate is lifted into place at the Pad 2 ground support equipment bunker. (ViX)
• A pump is lifted into place at the methane section of the pump farm. (ViX)
• Cameron County approve the air separation plant across from Pad 1. (Anderson 1, Anderson 2, Cameron County)

Starbase activities (2025-07-07):

• Jul 6th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• July 6th addendum: RGV Aerial post a recent photo of clean up progress at Massey’s. (RGV Aerial)
• Build site: A new design of a booster header tank moves from Starfactory to Megabay 1 and is raised to vertical. (NSF, LadPadre, ViX, Golden 1, Golden 2, Beyer)
• Launch site: A pump arrives at the LOX pump farm, is unwrapped and then covered, likely pending a crane lift. A blue wrapped motor is also visible on site. (ViX)
• The Tower 2 chopsticks are lowered, possibly to aid with cladding installation on the tower. (ViX)
• Work on the ship static fire adapter continues with the addition of pieces speculated to be R-vac bracing. (Starship Gazer)
• Pad 1 refurbishment continues. (Killip)
• Pad 2 flame trench work continues. (Killip / RGV Aerial)

Starbase activities (2025-07-06):

• Jul 5th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Jul 5th addendum: More cladding is installed on Tower 2. (ViX)
• Launch site: The hold-down clamps have been removed from the Pad 1 launch mount. This suggests that the ship static fire stand will be integrated onto the hold down clamps after all, rather than attached to the top deck of the launch mount. (Golden 1, Golden 2)
• Build site: A ship quick disconnect plate is lifted out of Megabay 2. (NSF, ViX)

Have they had heatshield issues? So far, as long as a ship didn’t lose attitude control or fail on ascent, the ship survived to splashdown.

Good video overall, though I disagree with his statement that Starship is “failing at the easy stuff and succeeding at the hard stuff”. Booster catches, while impressive, build off of SpaceX’s experience with F9 landings. Starship is a very different beast from an F9 upper stage though, so it’s not surprising to me that it is proving to be the more difficult part of the program.

That said, the performance of Ship Block 2 has been particularly disappointing.