How's about we get back to SpaceX Texas launch site Discussion and Updates, please?
Aerial view of Stage Zero.Predictions on launch readiness? 1/2/3/4+ months?Launch site discussion livestream link: youtube.com/live/lLg9BHgzn…
For anyone wondering, the black pipe in the foreground of the OLM with multiple white hoses connected to it is a dewatering system. Wells are driven around the perimeter of a pit, or in this case between the pit and the source of the water, and water is sucked out to keep the water table around the pit low, so you don't need to have a sump pump in the pit.Also, that pit is getting deep. Looks like they are doing it right this time.
Quote from: baking on 06/03/2023 03:07 pmFor anyone wondering, the black pipe in the foreground of the OLM with multiple white hoses connected to it is a dewatering system. Wells are driven around the perimeter of a pit, or in this case between the pit and the source of the water, and water is sucked out to keep the water table around the pit low, so you don't need to have a sump pump in the pit.Also, that pit is getting deep. Looks like they are doing it right this time.After all the hand wringing, makes me wonder how much did the the first OTF actually delay the installation of the new showerhead, etc. A couple weeks, a month maybe? It's always fun to go back and read the discussion immediately after one of their tests and realize what limited data points we are working with.My personal favorite was someone posting about how they knew a senior manager who was insisting on a flame trench who was fired for standing up to Elon's hubris, and how Elon should call and personally apologize to them. You'd figure after the Starhopper wackiness we'd all know better by now.
Their actions post launch do not indicate that there was any significant change to the design of the pad system based on the results, and this excavation needed to happen either way. That means that all the concrete the vehicle excavated was just less work to be done to prepare the installation. If anything, the results of the flight made the installation faster.
Starbase Status Update with Jack (@thejackbeyer)!
I would wonder also about how much installing the "entire showerhead" system would have delayed the OFT. All the work of building pilings would have probably needed to be done even without the B7 aided excavation, since we have enstablished that probably the support on the concrete was unsufficient. This delay now seem to be in the order of months, since OFT was on April 20, and after a few weeks they started working, and there are still a lot of work weeks ahead.
Another deluge-related part arrived at the LC last night.@LabPadre #Rover2
...followed shortly after by this HUGE pipe section!
If you don't want to watch the entire video but you've been wondering where the pilings are going, here's the screenshot
Morning to Morning 24 hour timelapse (Jun 06 through Jun 07) of the @NASASpaceflight Starbase Live camera at nsf.live/starbase (click to watch live)#BocaChicaToMars #SpaceX #Starship
Some cheeky updates on the Starbase launch site:nsf.live/starbase1) New Tower Elevator view.2) Ship 25 is released ahead of the Static Fire test.3) Tank Farm shells seem to be buffing out nicely.4) Diggers are hard at work ahead of the steel plate and pipes installation for the water deluge system.