SpaceX completes extensive tank tests on next Superheavy booster
Link here. The story details the repeated tank tests just completed on Superheavy booster prototype #19, intended to fly on the 12th Superheavy/Starship test flight now targeting a mid-March launch.
The article also describes the extensive repairs and upgrades to the Massey test stand facility following the explosion during a static fire test in 2025.
It does appear that the issues that caused the two recent blow-outs of Superheavy boosters in the past few months have been fixed, and that flight testing will resume in about a month.
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Link here. The story details the repeated tank tests just completed on Superheavy booster prototype #19, intended to fly on the 12th Superheavy/Starship test flight now targeting a mid-March launch.
The article also describes the extensive repairs and upgrades to the Massey test stand facility following the explosion during a static fire test in 2025.
It does appear that the issues that caused the two recent blow-outs of Superheavy boosters in the past few months have been fixed, and that flight testing will resume in about a month.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I am glad that everything seems to have been sorted out…even if Elon himself had to stand over them.
I have often wondered—which is worse:
1.) A boss who interferes so often that that alone stresses workers out into making mistakes.
2.) A neglectful boss who just lets things go.
A case by case deal I suppose.
JW – with that in mind, interesting (though long) piece in Words About Thoughts Substack by Mark Atwood about what happens when the founder / innovator leaves a company. He mostly uses Amazon as an example. Move that concern to the Musk corporations and we need to hope that Musk lives a very long time. Cheers –
What What Happened to Amazon, or “Don’t Put Down the Drone”
https://markatwood.substack.com/p/what-what-happened-to-amazon-or-dont