We’re going vertical! The first module is placed on the vehicle access tower. We’ve added two floors and guard rails for access, along with cryo control skids and environmental control system piping and filter boxes. Five more modules to go as we work toward returning to flight this year.
A lot of hard work behind this. Couldn’t be prouder of the team.
B21 LZ @ 25°52'47"N 96°46'36"W.
40km downrange. No identifiable target in the prelaunch marine assets, but the precise distance (exactly 40km) leads me to believe booster landed ON TARGET within a small enough margin that I cannot determine from asset activity alone (at most ~200 meters)
Aircraft circling at precisely 2 nautical miles. Helicopter went in and scuttled any floating debris.
This is in stark contrast to the targeted landing zones of the previous two flights, which were intended to come down 6 and 10 kilometers from the shoreline respectively. B20 from the previous flight test despite being off it's own target is actually closer ashore than B21
Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete – targeting Thursday, October 1 for launch of @NASA’s Crew-13 mission to the @Space_Station → https://t.co/l8scSzMfaO
Go for propellant load. Teams will soon begin loading Starship with ~12 million pounds of liquid oxygen and liquid methane. Targeting launch for 7:48 a.m. CT