Fit check ops complete. Now destacking Ship 20 from Booster 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2_dfvRZ4M
Source: @NASASpaceflight

After completing a fit test, ship 20 is being destacked #starship
Source: @considercosmos

Ship 20's 3 vacuum optimized and 3 sea level optimized Raptor engines. @NASASpaceflight
Source: @thejackbeyer

Now playing "Starships Were Meant To Fly" over loudspeakers.
Source: @StarshipGazer

Ship 20 is back on to the transport stand for roll back to the Production Site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B2_dfvRZ4M
Source: @NASASpaceflight

The worlds tallest and most powerful rocket!🚀
Source: @RGVaerialphotos

Elon tweet: Starship Fully Stacked
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423659261452709893?s=21

Submitted August 06, 2021 at 04:57PM by emileberhard
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Elon Musk: S20/B4 2 week plan
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423670139615014917?s=20

Submitted August 06, 2021 at 05:46PM by DefeatTheHun
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{Elon Musk} Over time, we might get orbital payload up to ~150 tons with full reusabity. If Starship then launched as an expendable, payload would be ~250 tons. What isn’t obvious from this [BBC rocket height comparison] chart is that Starship/Super Heavy is much denser than Saturn V.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423677217133957127?s=21

Submitted August 06, 2021 at 06:18PM by tonybinky20
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‍PART II of my tour of Starbase with the ultimate tour guide, @elonmusk! We go inside the 3 tents, see the forest of Raptors, the nose cones, thrust pucks, heat shields, talk about the catching arms & orbital mission, the space shuttle & lots more! ENJOY! https://youtu.be/SA8ZBJWo73E
Source: @Erdayastronaut

‍Raptors now being uninstalled from Ship 20 ahead of proof tests at Pad B at the suborbital launch site!
Source: @spacex360, @obetraveller

‍SpaceX Starbase Tx Flyover, Full Stack! (August 06, 2021)
https://youtu.be/4vqPLc5xgKo
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SpaceX is buying communications smallsat operator Swarm Technologies
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SpaceX's brand new F9 refurbishment hangar at the cape
A short roundup on the Roberts road facility. So a while ago there was quite a hype about the Roberts road facility (on the cape), with questions about what it was for. And some actual serious building (starting around February think?) In some long ago time this facility was meant to be a F9 refurbish facility but nothing happened. Today I decided to check out what happened to it (basically consisting off reading the relevant NSF public forum thread), and what I found was actually surprising, mainly because I've heard nothing about it on Twitter or any other major news source. To start there was this booster that was mentioned as heading to the facility, which seemed off as I thought it was still under construction (https://twitter.com/TheSpaceGal/status/1396878591594536961?s=20)  then scrolling through the NSF thread (https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=45813.260) I mentioned, I found some images of a what looked like completed hangar http://imgur.com/gallery/jPEyf2P, Then digging further I found this post, http://imgur.com/gallery/qpDCRx0, so basically the Roberts road facility is up and running, Hangar X is fully operational and is their main cape refurbishment centre, and has been months without anyone noticing and without major attention to anyone on YT/Twitter/more traditional news or an Elon tweet. Guess this is typical SpaceX thing off just coming up with something new out of basically nowhere.More pictures and information in the NSF thread

Submitted August 09, 2021 at 11:53PM by Rangerrenze
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Michael Sheetz: Lunar cargo startup Intuitive Machines announces its third mission to the surface of the moon, IM-3, will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, planned to launch fourth quarter 2024
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1425060971945598986?s=20

Submitted August 10, 2021 at 05:22PM by Rangerrenze
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Elon Musk: “SpaceX could do it if need be,” in response to NASA IG report that EVA suits are delayed and will cost over $1 billion
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1425100482779942936?s=21

Submitted August 10, 2021 at 05:33PM by thesheetztweetz
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