Avid Space

Bringing you live views and updates from Starbase and Cape Canaveral 🚀

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

The forward section for Ship 45 has been moved into Megabay2 and sleeved over the Pez Dispenser mechanism.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

And 1 for Massey's

🚨 New TFR 6/1671 — Brownsville, TX
Oct 23, 00:00 CDT – Nov 5, 23:00 CST
SFC – 5,000ft AGL
https://t.co/y40PZp3v1t

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

🚨 New TFR 6/1666 — Brownsville, TX
Oct 23, 00:00 CDT – Nov 5, 23:00 CST
SFC – 10,000ft AGL
https://t.co/hbo2UAy17v

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

Ship 43 has departed Production and is on the way to the Massey outpost for initial cryo testing.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

The USS Vicksburg is being towed toward the port of Brownsville, for final dismantling and scrapping. Commissioned in 1992, she served in the United States Navy until being decommissioned in 2024 following a costly program that failed to achieve operational readiness. 🫡

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

Tag!

#OTD in 2020, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft "tagged" the asteroid Bennu, successfully touching down and capturing this view of its descent, six-second tag, and back-away burn. The samples were successfully returned to Earth.

[Arianespace @Arianespace]

Eight years ago today, BepiColombo began its journey to Mercury. 🚀

On 20 October 2018, the ESA/JAXA mission lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport aboard Ariane 5, beginning one of the most complex journeys through the inner Solar System.

Since then, BepiColombo has travelled billions of kilometres, using planetary flybys to gradually adjust its trajectory towards the closest planet to the Sun.

Eight years after launch, the journey that began in Kourou is entering its final chapter, bringing BepiColombo closer to the world it was built to explore.

A journey that started with Ariane 5, and continues to push our understanding of Mercury further.

#LaunchingAmbitions
@esa @JAXA_jp @CNES

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

@thejackbeyer Agreed.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

Yesterday's bridge crane lift, start to finish. It took not far short of 13 hours for the strand jacks to pull this beast to the top of Gigabay!

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

@SERobinsonJr Ouch!

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

The first bridgecrane in the Gigabay is being lifted into position.

[Rocket Ranch StarBase @RocketRanchTX]

Launch view from 35,000 feet this morning.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

@CurtisR44022866 It seemed to coincide with the big power outage. Perhaps it was just a coincidence.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

There's been a lot of arcs and sparks on the top of Gigabay tonight. There seems to be some serious electrical issues.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

Booster 23 has been placed onto the thrust sim stand prior to moving to the Massey outpost tonight.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

Very slowly and very carefully, Ship 40 has been lifted back to vertical, using the new break-over device and is now seated on a transport ring inside Megabay-2.

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

Ship 40 has relocated to the ring yard. Come and watch with us to see what happens next.

https://t.co/UH3N2RaCHr

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

SHIP 40 IS HOME!

[Avid Space @LabPadre]

Testing of the bridge crane in Gigabay has already started on the ground, with the trolley slightly moving this night.