last week began with crews continuing to work on the first starship that spacex planned to send to orbit ship number NUMBER_TOKEN. the thermal protection system was worked on extensively with tps tiles being added and replaced across the whole vehicle and it's looking like things are almost complete in this regard on tuesday ship NUMBER_TOKEN was rolled down to sub orbital pad b placed right alongside a rather stumpy carcass of the former booster NUMBER_TOKEN prototype in this shot here it's missing its upper methane tank which was removed and subsequently chopped up at the beginning of the week one can only assume that the remaining liquid oxygen tank was left in place so that spacex could prioritize the move and testing campaign of ship NUMBER_TOKEN. we can expect to see this testing begin shortly our hope was that we'd see things begin last week but after those closures were cancelled we're now looking at the primary testing date of the NUMBER_TOKENth of august with back updates on the NUMBER_TOKENth and NUMBER_TOKENth we're assuming it'll be the standard fare of ambient pressure testing cryo proofing and then static fire testing possibly from both the main tanks and the header tanks if spacex managed to knock out all of these tests in just a week then it would be a record for them but given elon's drive to up the production to the rapid rate required to build the multiplanetary starship fleet i certainly wouldn't be all that surprised to see spacex at least attempt to get all of the testing done in one week ship NUMBER_TOKEN represents the upper stage of the orbital test flight vehicle the first stage is of course booster NUMBER_TOKEN which right now is sitting inside the high bay but that could change as early as today monday the NUMBER_TOKENrd of august an intermittent road closure is set for between NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN am to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN am which spacex may use to roll booster NUMBER_TOKEN out to the launch site alternatively they may use this window to roll out some of the cryo shells for the gse tanks it is important to note though that the longer booster NUMBER_TOKEN hogs up space inside the high bay the more delay goes toward the building of booster NUMBER_TOKEN components of which have been spotted across the construction zone the high bay is currently the only structure big enough to assemble these gargantuan first stages so booster fall will need to move out sooner or later it would be nice to have a bit more space in the high bay but luckily we already know that spacex plan to build a second much bigger high bay and rumors currently suggest that this should start having steel erected for it as early as september and last week we saw work begin on its foundations once this so-called gigabyte is operational we might see superheavies get built much more rapidly time will tell stage NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN of the orbital rocket aside stage NUMBER_TOKEN is also coming along well too stage NUMBER_TOKEN for those that don't know is the name spacex have assigned to all the launch infrastructure required to support a starship launch as well as the first and second stage landings this includes the gigantic launch tower launch table and all ground support equipment and of course mechazilla the incredible arm system that will catch both the super heavy and starship when they return to the launch zone after flight we probably won't see mechazilla used for a little while yet certainly not for booster NUMBER_TOKEN and ship NUMBER_TOKEN as those will just be landing in the ocean but we will definitely need the launch tower itself for the first orbital flight test work continues on the tower in preparation for the
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