South Padre Island is at the end of this barrier island.

In the foreground, East Cut Jetties.

There's a huge wind farm... in South Texas!
👺💨

I spotted another one of those Peace Poles outside Valley International Airport, Harlingen. ☮️

cc: @benoit

Arriving at the #Starship construction site in Boca Chica.
#spacex #starbase

The new #Starbase sign.
#spacex

The #starship on the left should be #SN15, so far the only landing survivor. She was scheduled for a second flight, but then they removed all three engines (presumably because they were damaged) and eventually it was moved back to the construction site.

On the right, the "high bay", which seems to contains #SN16 and pieces of the #BN2 booster (the first one which is expected to fly).

All the sections of #BN2 have already been spotted on the site, an a good number of them are already stacked.

#SpaceX South Texas Ground Tracking Station.

I believe this was here before #Starship construction began.

Moving on... to the #Starship launch site!

In sequence:
- Historic Starhopper prototype which flew in July 2019
- Blast wall
- Sections of the orbital launch tower waiting to be stacked,
- The giant crane "Frankenzilla" which is building the 130m launch tower

On the left, the cryogenic fuel farm under construction. #spacex

Aerial view of the #SpaceX launch site from June 4:

"NO TRESPASSING
RAPTORS LOOSE"

#spacex #starship

The cryogenic fuel farm uses steel tanks very similar to #Starship, but they will be enclosed in thermal insulating shells (like the one on the right) to store superchilled O2 and methane more efficiently.

This is the access road to Boca Chica Beach. It's Saturday, and families are coming to enjoy the sea, mostly ignoring the #Starship in the background.

(the car on the right got stuck in the sand; another car is trying to toe it out of it)

People nonchalantly bathing in Boca Chica Beach.

View of the launch complex from Boca Chica Beach.

@codewiz are those potholes made by starship sn11?

@chebra haha, I doubt it: the launch site is further up the road!

@codewiz the sky looks gorgeous 🤩

@srevinsaju Well, I have to make an admission... 😅

@codewiz haha 😂

@srevinsaju How about this one? Too colorful? This one is a "creation", meaning that Google Photos made it based on machine learning magic ✨

@codewiz Yea, this is a bit more colorful. The previous edit was more realistic ✨

@codewiz @srevinsaju what's the app?

@benoit @srevinsaju Just Google Photos, but I have a Google One subscription which unlocks these extra filters.

@codewiz @srevinsaju it's been a while since I moved away from GPhotos... Didn't know they added paid features :o

@codewiz That's an awesome picture!