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Happy cake day!

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1931733837425627296

Deployment of 26 @Starlink satellites confirmed

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lr4ajsanek2z

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Starlink 15-8

Starbase activities (2025-06-08):

• Quiet Sunday.
• Jun 7th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Overnight, B16 moves from Pad 1 to Megabay 1. (NSF, LabPadre, ViX)
• "Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight boosters everywhere" (ViX)
• Build site: Jun 8th flyover photo, in which sheet piles for Gigabay are visible. (RGV Aerial)
• Diagram illustrating how hardware might flow from Starfactory to Gigabay, based on sheet pile layout. (Anderson 1, Anderson 2)

What is missing?

The ability to log in with and post from a PieFed account.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

Edit: M-vac shutdown, nominal orbit insertion.

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

Liftoff!

Webcast is live. Vandenberg is foggy, as usual.

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3lqzhywkmbc2f

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #SXM10

Starbase activities (2025-06-07):

• Jun 6th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Jun 6th addenda: A new stand of some kind is spotted at the build site. (ViX)
• Booster transport stand returns to Pad 1. (ViX)
• Launch site: Two new vertical tanks arrive, and are is lifted almost into place. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• LOX pump #8 is lifted into position at the pump farm. (ViX)
• The second section of booster quick disconnect cover arrives. (ViX)
• Steel plates are installed in the flame trench. (Anderson)
• B16 is lifted off of Pad 1 and placed onto transport stand. (NSF 1, NSF 2, LabPadre, ViX)
• B16 receives a slight bump on the way down. The retraction of the alignment pins at a time when neither the stabilizing arms on the chopsticks nor the clamps on the transport stand were engaged, caused B16 to swing freely and hit the interior of the transport stand a few times. (ViX, Golden)
• Chopsticks release B16 and descend, transport stand clamps engage. (ViX, NSF)
• B16 moves to the entrance of Highway 4 in preparation for rollback to the production site. (NSF)
• New road delay for between Jun 7th 22:00 to Jun 8th 02:00, presumably for B16 rollback. (cityofstarbase, archive)
• B16 rollback begins. (NSF)
• Build site: Sheet piling rig continues work on the Gigabay foundations. (ViX, Anderson 1, Anderson 2)

Florida:

• Correction: Five cryo tanks are inbound, not four. (Pike 1, Pike 2, Pike 3, Cornwell)

Sirius XM-10 deployment confirmed!

SES-2, SECO-2, and nominal orbit insertion.

SXM-10 deployment is scheduled for T+33 minutes.

Starbase activities (2025-06-06):

• Jun 5th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• B16 static fire
• Road closure is scheduled.
• NSF full livestream.
• Propellant loading begins. (NSF)
• B16 performs a 33-engine 8-second static fire. (NSF, LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2, SpaceX)
• Road closure concluded.
• Other: New road delay for Jun 7th from 05:00 to 09:00, presumably for B16 rollback. (cityofstarbase, archive)
• Dan Huot (Communications Manager at SpaceX) clarifies that SpaceX internal nomenclature is "Pad 2", not "Pad B". Zack Golden is in shambles. (tweet 1, tweet 2)

Brownsville:

• Starship Gazer posts 4k video of the construction work on the Linde air separation plant.

Florida:

• Four more cryo tanks are en route from South Korea, possibly for SpaceX. (Cornwell)
• Two starship pads are planned for LC-37, with towers 36 metres taller than those at Starbase. (NSF, spaceforcestarshipeis, Anderson)

Stage 1 landing confirmed and nominal orbit insertion!

SES-2 is scheduled for around T+26 minutes.

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

Liftoff!

Hosted webcast has started. Cori Brendel (Senior Software Engineer) and Somya Srivastava (Heatshield Engineer) are hosting.

NSF are live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtyFld_UMHI

Propellant load is underway.

Huh, turns out that I had not upvoted that post... yet :)