Today I'm flying to Boca Chica TX to visit the #SpaceX construction site 🚀
These NASASpaceflight videos with no voice over speak for themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtSCwYRMq7c
#spacex #starship
I spotted another one of those Peace Poles outside Valley International Airport, Harlingen. ☮️
cc: @benoit
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).
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
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)
Marcus House gives an update on #SpaceX #Starship and #SuperHeavy development:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iFg4wvp5gw
Today I went to South Padre Island, a resort island situated north of the #SpaceX launch complex.
It's the #SpaceX construction site! 🤩
Bit it's too far to observe their activity. Even with a telescope, there would be too much atmospheric haze.
Today I wasted my afternoon at the stupid South Padre Island while Frankenzilla was stacking section 4 of the orbital launch tower 😓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0AZIvjXjZc
#spacex #starship
@codewiz the sky looks gorgeous 🤩
@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 you can have good dehaze with a digital one I guess.
@benoit ohh... I guess tripod + long exposures + computational photography can do miracles...
@codewiz That's an awesome picture!
#SpaceX South Texas Ground Tracking Station.
I believe this was here before #Starship construction began.