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BR-1 is ready to awaken!
Safe-to-Mate testing complete. All electrical connections & components are safe to connect together, ensuring correct wiring, proper voltage levels, and no risk of damage when the spacecraft is first powered on. More to come…
RFA ONE is on the launch pad. For the first time, our rocket is standing at SaxaVord Spaceport as we continue preparations for launch. Next step: first-stage hotfire testing.
Launch table is out. The two-million-pound launch table is heading to the Integration Facility for inspection and adjustments to support our future ConOps. Once reinstalled at the pad, it'll be outfitted with the first stage aft umbilicals and tied into the water system, which delivers water injection just below the engine nozzles.
The first Blue Ring super spacecraft continues to move smartly through assembly. But, I thought I’d share some pics of the other vehicles that we built as dedicated test units. This one it’s the Static Test vehicle, doing its thing…
The largest nuclear bomb in outer space exploded 64 yrs ago today.
Starfish Prime was a 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, detonated at the altitude the Space Station now orbits. It created man-made radiation belts that wrecked many satellites & lasted 5+ years.
A year after the test the USA & USSR signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, leading to the global 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
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