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		By: Jeff Wright		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Wright]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Old shuttle pdf
https://www.disneylicenseplates.com/RSDSC/Space_Shuttle_Transporter_of_1980s.pdf]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Old shuttle pdf<br />
<a href="https://www.disneylicenseplates.com/RSDSC/Space_Shuttle_Transporter_of_1980s.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.disneylicenseplates.com/RSDSC/Space_Shuttle_Transporter_of_1980s.pdf</a></p>
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		By: Jeff Wright		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Wright]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On robotics
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-humans-robots-smarter-safer-faster.html
&quot;Monash University researchers have trialed a new system demonstrating how humans and robots can team up on the job to make construction faster, safer and less physically demanding.&quot;

Roll out
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-autobot-platform-machine-rapidly-ways.html
&quot;A research team led by the Department of Energy&#039;s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has built and successfully demonstrated an automated experimentation platform to optimize the fabrication of advanced materials. The platform, called AutoBot, uses machine learning algorithms to direct robotic devices to rapidly synthesize and characterize materials. &quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On robotics<br />
<a href="https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-humans-robots-smarter-safer-faster.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-humans-robots-smarter-safer-faster.html</a><br />
&#8220;Monash University researchers have trialed a new system demonstrating how humans and robots can team up on the job to make construction faster, safer and less physically demanding.&#8221;</p>
<p>Roll out<br />
<a href="https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-autobot-platform-machine-rapidly-ways.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-autobot-platform-machine-rapidly-ways.html</a><br />
&#8220;A research team led by the Department of Energy&#8217;s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has built and successfully demonstrated an automated experimentation platform to optimize the fabrication of advanced materials. The platform, called AutoBot, uses machine learning algorithms to direct robotic devices to rapidly synthesize and characterize materials. &#8220;</p>
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		By: Dick Eagleson		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dick Eagleson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ray Van Dune,

I guess we&#039;ll all find out pretty soon.  One V3 Super Heavy and several V3 Starships are currently in various stages of construction at Starbase.  This first V3 SH will be retained at Starbase to support V3 testing and operations there.

The Starship Pad at LC-39A is being built as essentially a duplicate of Pad 2 at Starbase and it will likely be ready for service not long after the SB Pad 2 - year-end this year or early next year.  By then, a second V3 Super Heavy could be completed at Starbase and this article might be in line to be shipped to FL by barge.  One would need both a Super Heavy and one or more Starships to be sent from Brownsville to Port Canaveral to support initial launches from LC-39A.  It will be awhile before the Roberts Road Starfactory is sufficiently complete to begin local production of boosters and ships in FL.

Saville,

Maybe.  The most straightforward type of such notional point-to-point transfer-by-flight would be that of Super Heavy boosters.  Launching these is what the pads are all being built to support.  Launching Starships directly from these same pads would require some V3 equivalent of the lash-up SpaceX built to allow static fire testing of V2 Starships on Pad 1.  Doable, but certainly extra work SpaceX isn&#039;t likely to do if the straightforward alternative of transfer-by-sea is available.  That is especially true given that such transfers are going to be merely a temporary expedient until the Roberts Road Starfactory is up and running.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ray Van Dune,</p>
<p>I guess we&#8217;ll all find out pretty soon.  One V3 Super Heavy and several V3 Starships are currently in various stages of construction at Starbase.  This first V3 SH will be retained at Starbase to support V3 testing and operations there.</p>
<p>The Starship Pad at LC-39A is being built as essentially a duplicate of Pad 2 at Starbase and it will likely be ready for service not long after the SB Pad 2 &#8211; year-end this year or early next year.  By then, a second V3 Super Heavy could be completed at Starbase and this article might be in line to be shipped to FL by barge.  One would need both a Super Heavy and one or more Starships to be sent from Brownsville to Port Canaveral to support initial launches from LC-39A.  It will be awhile before the Roberts Road Starfactory is sufficiently complete to begin local production of boosters and ships in FL.</p>
<p>Saville,</p>
<p>Maybe.  The most straightforward type of such notional point-to-point transfer-by-flight would be that of Super Heavy boosters.  Launching these is what the pads are all being built to support.  Launching Starships directly from these same pads would require some V3 equivalent of the lash-up SpaceX built to allow static fire testing of V2 Starships on Pad 1.  Doable, but certainly extra work SpaceX isn&#8217;t likely to do if the straightforward alternative of transfer-by-sea is available.  That is especially true given that such transfers are going to be merely a temporary expedient until the Roberts Road Starfactory is up and running.</p>
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		By: Saville		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saville]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dick Eagleson:  Yes I can see where you wouldn&#039;t bother with this capability for a while. But it would be nice to have it in your back pocket in case of need.,]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dick Eagleson:  Yes I can see where you wouldn&#8217;t bother with this capability for a while. But it would be nice to have it in your back pocket in case of need.,</p>
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		By: Ray Van Dune		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ray Van Dune]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NSF has identified at Starbase a tubular structure that is seemingly designed to lay alongside a starship hull. Could it be a &quot;strongback&quot; for the laydown / standup to and from the barge?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NSF has identified at Starbase a tubular structure that is seemingly designed to lay alongside a starship hull. Could it be a &#8220;strongback&#8221; for the laydown / standup to and from the barge?</p>
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		By: Dick Eagleson		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dick Eagleson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Not gonna happen in the early going.  And it won&#039;t be long before there&#039;s a full production facility for Super Heavies and Starships at Roberts Road.  Once that comes on-line, there won&#039;t be much point in point-to-point deliveries between Starbase and Canaveral.  It is certainly possible that Starships launched from Starbase might re-enter and be caught at Canaveral and vice versa but those Starships will have jobs to do in space between launch and return.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not gonna happen in the early going.  And it won&#8217;t be long before there&#8217;s a full production facility for Super Heavies and Starships at Roberts Road.  Once that comes on-line, there won&#8217;t be much point in point-to-point deliveries between Starbase and Canaveral.  It is certainly possible that Starships launched from Starbase might re-enter and be caught at Canaveral and vice versa but those Starships will have jobs to do in space between launch and return.</p>
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		By: Saville		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Saville]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was wondering if SpaceX would fly a booster from Starbase to be caught at the cape. Seems like an easy flight.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was wondering if SpaceX would fly a booster from Starbase to be caught at the cape. Seems like an easy flight.</p>
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