Registered just to note: The FAQ still says NET 11/12, but the last couple of updates indicate NET 11/13.

2026-11-08:

• Massey's: Overnight, cryo plumbing sections were reportedly moved from Sanchez to Massey's. (RGV Aerial)
• Production site: Overnight, the ship lifting jig, S45's transfer tubes and installation jig, and a single Raptor engine enter Megabay 2. (ViX)
• The booster lifting jig enters Megabay 1. (ViX)
• Road delay for "Production to Pad" is posted for Nov 9th 10:00 to 14:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive)
• Pad 2: Chopsticks are raised, and launch and catch deluge tests are performed. (Avid Space, ViX, ViX, RGV Aerial)
• The booster quick disconnects perform extension and retraction tests. (ViX)
• The booster hold-down clamps are tested individually and simultaneously. (ViX)
• Flight 15: NOTAMs for ship reentry and splashdown are posted for Chile. (notams.aim.faa.gov 1, notams.aim.faa.gov 2, LunarCitizens, aipchile.dgac.gob.cl, space-notices.com, SpaceNotices (X))
• Other: mcrs987 deduces the superheavy internal grid fin support structure. (mcrs987)

2026-11-07:

• Nov 6th addendum: "It is so tempting to make a 500 ton thrust Raptor 4 in place of the 250 ton Raptor 3 for the outer ring of the Starship booster" (Elon)
• Production site: S40 moves from Megabay 2 to the Gigabay (TX). (NSF, Avid Space 1, Avid Space 2, ViX 1, ViX 2, JLP734, Liedtke 1, Liedtke 2, Anderson, Blobifie 1, Blobifie 2, Blobifie 3)
• S40 is positioned in the front left workstation in the right half of the Gigabay (TX). (Anderson)
• B24's A4 section moves from Starfactory to Megabay 1. (ViX)
• S45's transfer tubes move from Starfactory to Megabay 2. (ViX)
• Massey's: Overnight, one of the large valve skids moves from Sanchez to Massey's. (ViX)
• Road delay for "Production to Masseys" is still listed for Nov 7th 23:59 PM to Nov 8th 04:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive)
• Flight 15: NOTAMs for ship reentry and splashdown are posted for Mauritius for Nov 13th through 19th. (NSF, Avid Space, interstellargw)
• SpaceX post a ship catch render, and confirm NET 13th date. (SpaceX)

explaining reality isn't making points for you but I get you're easily confused. gonna block you now, you're pointless

Aren’t you just making my point for me? Congress and politics are woven into NASA and any other national agency. Sure it’s not great that Musk is in charge, but it’s much easier to replace a CEO than to get politics out of NASA.

cool story bro.

believe what you want. WE WERE NEVER, EVER GOING TO JUMP FROM SATURN 5 TO FALCON 9.

whatever fanfic you're living aside, change comes over time, in increments, and requires the technology to support it.

and nasa had to sell it that way BECAUSE OF CONGRESS YOU DOLT. Congress is the reason it was divvied up from here to alabammy. do you think NASA thought it was optimal?

jfc were you dropped on your head?

part of running a national agency is politics, and sourcing shit from various states is the best way to guarantee your program doesn't get cancelled when inflation spikes or some other short term disaster crops up.

you act like nasa drove those things, when it's literally politics.

meanwhile you want to leave our entire launch footprint in ketamine boy's control?

jfc

The disaster part is that the shuttle never achieved its goal of reusable space flight, its inception was compromised by politics, and they continued the program instead of pivoting to a different platform. These are systemic issues with NASA. Just look at how they launched Challenger even though engineers knew of the O-ring defect.

lol calling the sts a disaster.... ok kiddo

jfc. the hubris.

hubble, the ISS, fucking everything from NRO to NOAA, and it's a disaster because a whole bunch of tech that didn't exist in the 70s when they developed it is available today for spaceX.

fuck right off

So we’d get a disaster like the Space Shuttle and then continue funding it with tax payer money and legally requiring stuff to be built in Alabama?

better for it to be under nasa, even if that means under trump, than under musk's ketamine induced madness. don't you understand that being under musk is basically the same thing?

but more importantly there will be a time after trump, derp

Wouldn’t that mean it’d be run by Trump?

watching this leave me wondering how the fuck we can save spaceX's great work from the nutbag at the top...

nationalize spaceX

This provides a bit more info regarding the premature engine shutdown on ascent. Sounds like helium and LOX leaking where they shouldn't?

There's a good chunk of your 401k riding in that spacecraft, despite you not having a say about it. You'd better pray it doesn't crash.

Let's hope they kill both towers, landingpads and the tankfarm during the attempt. Don't get me wrong: Catching those is impressive engineering. But Musk is a Capitalo Fachist that deserves a live in prisson as the poorest man in the entire solar system

M-vac shutdown callout at T+8:43.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Liftoff!

2026-11-02 addendum:

• Photo of B25's common dome before it entered Megabay 1. (RGV Aerial)

2026-11-04 addenda:

• Massey's: The second reaction frame was removed from the nosecone crush structure at Massey's. (ViX)
• Launch site: Scaffolding was removed from the Pad 2 launch mount, and the booster quick disconnects performed extension and retraction tests. (ViX)
• The Pad 2 deluge was tested twice, simulating launch and booster catch. (ViX, RGV Aerial)
• Pad 2 chopsticks testing was also observed. (ViX, RGV Aerial)
• A section of rebar at the cryo offload area was relocated by several humans. (ViX)
• Production site: The tall LR13000 (1300?) crane was shortened. (ViX, cnunez)
• B25's A3:4 section was moved from Starfactory to Megabay 1. (ViX)

2026-11-05:

• Launch site: Some of the pipes for Pad 1 the deluge system are moved. (ViX)
• A ramp section of the Pad 1 flame trench is lifted into position. (ViX)
• The Pad 2 deluge system is tested once. (NSF, ViX)
• Production site: Construction between the Gigabay (TX) and Starfactory continues. (ViX)
• S45's A3:4 section is moved from Starfactory to Megabay 2. (ViX)
• McGregor: R3.2x9 leaves the testing area. (ringwatchers)
• Florida: LC-39A deluge system is tested twice, simulating launch and booster catch. (NSF)
• Upcoming flights: Flight 15 is now NET Nov 13th, and flight 16 is now NET Dec 10th. (Avid Space, compass.atfm.aero, archive, Dontchev via Berger)

Naaahh he's just gonna move his bum ass to Swampbase/Starbayou in Louisiana

2026-11-04:

• Pad 2: Deluge testing. (NSF)
• Massey's: The expanded site has been connected to the current site via a patch of dirt. (Anderson)
• Future flights: The FCC have granted Starship "multi-launch" authorization beginning in January, covering launches from both Texas and Florida. (Anderson, apps.fcc.gov)
• 444-acre data centre site: SpaceX have filed for a power plant initially consisting of 35 natural gas turbines totalling ~748 MW, later to be replaced by 8 GE Vernova 7E large turbines, ~708 MW. (LunarCitizens)
• Florida: The LC-39A deluge system is reportedly also tested. (NSF (no video))

2026-11-03:

• Production site: S45's A2:3 section moves from Starfactory to Megabay 2. (ViX)
• The LR1300 crane briefly emerges from the Gigabay (TX) and then returns inside. (ViX)
• The boom is removed from the third of four Gigabay (TX) tower cranes. (NSF, RGV Aerial)
• A truss connecting Gigabay (TX) and Starfactory has been installed. (Anderson)
• Massey's: A beam and a reaction frame have been removed from the nosecone crush testing structure. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• S43.1 is still in the can crusher test structure. (RGV Aerial)
• Construction for site expansion continues. (RGV Aerial)
• Launch site: Work on the pad 2 booster quick disconnects continues. (ViX)
• Construction of the air separation unit continues. (ViX)

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