Hi everybody. Welcome back to the space news
pod, and welcome to 2022. Happy New Year, everybody and
let's get into the starship talk right now.
So SpaceX Starship is having an incredible year this year.
If everything goes well for it, but right now let's talk about
the something is happening currently actually here in Boca
Chica, there is a weather watch, that's pretty interesting.
It also could be harmful to SpaceX Starbase because SpaceX
Starbase down by the gulf. Cameron County is where it's at
and Camera County, just had a weather.
Advisory, it is a firewatch. So let me tell you about this
fire. Watch it happened today and I
was down there earlier today. The wind was absolutely insane.
35, 40 miles an hour, I could barely get out of my car.
My car door would barely open. The wind was pushing me in, and
I had to really lean into it to get out.
Is incredible. How forceful this wind is?
And it's also dry right now. So anything that's dry and
windy, it's very hazardous. So the National Weather Service
put out a fire warning. So we have to watch for a fire
for any fires around Starbase today and it's affecting Cameron
County. So this is about the wins 30 to
40 miles, an hour. It was insane.
Like I said before, humidity, 15 to 35 percent pretty low,
humidity for Azaria impacts any fires that develop will likely
spread rapidly so any fires that happen near Starbase.
If there are any fires down there they could spread rapidly.
I know it's the gulf is very wet down there but there are dry
areas in that area and where SpaceX, it's a Starbase, it's
basically dry, you know, everything around it is dry
except for the water in the gulf and inlets and stuff, but the
impacts any fires that develop will likely Spread rapidly.
That's because the wind outdoor burning is not recommended at
this time. SpaceX uses a lot of welding.
A lot of people aren't at Starbase today, so luckily a lot
of people are on vacation, they're out of town, visiting
relatives, their stay at home, they're being safe and so
Starbase hopefully we'll be safe all day.
That's until 6:00 p.m. today on the 2nd of January Red Flag
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shortly in general. These conditions include
sustained. 20-foot, Winds of 25 mph or greater humidity.
Ranging from below 25% to below. 45% of the coast each lasting
for two hours longer. And cured fuel.
So humidity. Very big factor in this usually
pretty humid down here. We're right now.
It's not that bad. It's really not that bad.
So just we're going to keep our eye on it and hopefully
everything's going to be good here in Cameron County and Boca
Chica. And SpaceX is Starbase.
So I'll let you know, if anything else pops up with that.
So that was the first thing of intrigue for today for Starbase
and Starship. Now, let's move on to the test
schedule. Of Starship, which will be
happening starting in January, fourth Tuesday, coming up coming
in hot on Tuesday, the test schedules coming and that's from
10 a.m. till 6 p.m. so 10. A.m. till 6 p.m. all day long,
eight hour, test range for Starship.
What are they going to be doing? Just recently Starship did a
static fire test. It looked like it was
successful, there's a little bit of weirdness going on with one
of the manhole covers. It looked like there's a
possible leak there a cryogenically.
So it's possible something's going on with that.
They need a little time to fix it up.
So January 2nd is today and then January 4th is when they start
the test schedule and then after that the first, sorry, the
fourth is when they start to test schedule on Tuesday, fifth,
and then the sixth. So Tuesday Wednesday and
Thursday from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. we'll see.
What happens there with the SpaceX Starship test schedule,
going forward, possibly another static fire, but first and
foremost if there is a leak that manhole and the side of
Starship, they have to fix that first.
So this could be possibly another cryogenic test.
Make sure there's no leaks. Make sure nothing's going on but
we'll see what happens in. Hopefully if there was a leak,
they fixed it, they can do a cryo test and get back right.
To a static fire testing schedule again, make sure
everything works again. Do a full wet dress, get it
ready for the possible launch for the orbital, flight, test
later on in 2022. So what happened the other day
booster for was moved off the platform, move down beside
Starship and the other booster that's on the site.
So why did they do that while they may be doing work?
Work the orbital launch Tower the olet or they could be
working on parts of the booster. That just need to be closer to
the ground. I'm not sure.
I don't know what they're going to do with this thing at that
point so they moved it over. We got some footage of it.
The other day when it was moving after it was lifted and it was
put into a spot next to like I said before the other booster
and Starship so it's down on the ground again and we saw it
moving on our live stream and I'm going to point up there.
That means that there's a link up there for our live stream and
it's it about a minute and a half in somewhere like that, but
you can see there's chapters on that video.
So it moves a little bit, you can hear it, you can see it, it
goes behind the fuel tanks and then you can't see it anymore,
but I drove past a little bit later and it's safe and secure
in the launch Site Area. So we'll see if they do testing
with booster too. We'll see what happens in the
near future. We have a couple days coming up,
like I said the test schedule a couple days in the future and
what is next for Starship? Well, after the boosting
schedule happens, next three days if they do a cryogenic test
to test that possible leak. That's great.
If they do a test for static fire possible, maybe they might
do an ignition test on it again. That's a possibility, too.
Now, do they move booster down off the test and to get rid of
it? Some people have said, maybe
they don't want to fly booster for Because there's upgrades to
booster five. So why would they just kind of
use this old technology and not move forward with booster five
when booster for is kind of you know it's old by this point
right booster 5. It's out there right now.
It's by as 16 and S15 to start today.
It's just hanging out back there doing nothing.
Could they move booster for during this test schedule?
Did they move it back to the production site down the road
and then move? Who's 25 down to the launch site
for testing that's a possibility.
We'll see. We'll see what happens.
So those are that's speculative of course but it is a
possibility going forward because if they have all this
time between now and the end of February, why wouldn't they
move? Booster 5 into place a booster
for do a fit test with ship 20 and make sure ship 20 fits on
booster for or booster 5. And then they move forward with
a testing schedule. Just like they did with rooster
for in ship 20, be a ship 20. Looks like it's ready to roll.
Looks pretty close, you know, if that if that leak is figured out
then ship 20, if it meets with booster five properly booster
five could be tested, of course, have to put the Raptors on the
booster, but that doesn't take that long, you know, a couple
days at the most, take them off for put them on five.
And then they're there in a really good spot.
So that's a possibility that's possibly.
What's next for SpaceX, Starship 20 and booster for, and possibly
five. So, let me know what you think
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