Elon Musk REVEALS Another Starship UPDATE!
Critical testing for Starship Booster 9 and the launch infrastructure has begun. What does this mean, and what will be next? Let’s find out in today’s episode!
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The Starship program is now entering a crucial testing phase when Booster 9 conducted a static test fire of the Raptor engines with the water deluge in use. This follows last week’s testing of Booster 9, the water deluge system, and other significant work at Starbase.
Prior to a Static Fire test with a nearly full set firing of Raptors on Sunday, the Spin Prime test requirement, which was finished on Friday, was necessary.
On Thursday, July 20, Booster 9 was brought out to the orbital launch pad from Starbase’s production facility and lifted into the Orbital Launch Mount (OLM). Prior to the booster’s proof test, which is scheduled to take place on the upcoming Starship launch, a significant amount of work was completed in the OLM and launch pad area.
In the methane tank of Booster 9 on Sunday, July 23, liquid oxygen and liquid nitrogen were added for what SpaceX described as a propellant loading test. As a booster was tested on the OLM for the first time since the dramatic Starship first flight on April 20, both tanks filled to capacity.
Before the booster was detanked over a period of many hours, it appeared that the test had a prolonged hold during which the cryogenic fluids were left in the tanks. An access door was opened at the foot of the liquid oxygen tank once the testing was finished, and personnel looked around. What was done is unknown, but the location is now once more off-limits.
SpaceX started getting ready for the next critical phase of the booster’s test campaign as employees aboard Booster 9 were inspecting the liquid oxygen tank. An entire pressure test was now required for the water deluge system that had been installed beneath the OLM. A partial pressure test had been performed earlier in the month.
Large water jets were seen emerging from the steel plates under the OLM on July 28 during the full pressure deluge test, which seemed to be successful. Aside from the Raptor nozzles, the water was angled to avoid them.
Following the release of pressure from the deluge water tank farm behind the launch tower, there was an eight to ten second flow of water that lasted for about that long.
The exterior holes line up with the locations of the outer 20 Raptor engines on the rocket, while the inner holes are organized in the pattern of a hexagon.
Ship 28 was relocated on Friday, July 21 to the former Massey’s gun range, which has been transformed into a SpaceX test site, for proof testing with cryogenic fluids. Booster 10 was moved out of Massey’s on the same day and arrived in the “rocket garden” at the production site on Saturday, July 22 after midnight.
After being loaded with cryogenic fluids on Friday, July 28, Ship 28 was observed with frost lines on its liquid oxygen and methane tanks. Assuming the test proved successful, the ship, which is outfitted with fins, tiles, and a payload compartment, is now anticipated to roll back to the construction facility to have its Raptor engines installed. This ship has since rolled back to the Production Site and is anticipated to be used with Booster 10 for the third Starship test launch.
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