Starbase activities (2025-07-16):
- Jul 15th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
- Build site: Booster v3 forward dome with the new hot staging bracing is sighted in Starfactory. (LabPadre)
- Launch site: A pink shackle is attached to new ship static fire adapter, possibly indicative that a lift onto Pad 1 could be imminent. (NSF)
- Gisler posts some closeups of the recent modifications to Pad 1. (Tweet 1, tweet 2, tweet 3)
- Some scaffolding is erected on one of the Pad 2 chopsticks. (Gisler)
Florida: NSF publish an article summarizing progress on Cape Canaveral:
- Rebar installation currently under way for Gigabay foundations at Roberts Road.
- Launch tower manufacturing facilities set up to produce two towers in parallel.
- LC-39A: Flame trench and tank farm under construction. Launch mount for this pad is currently at the water-cooled steel deck plate installation phase.
- SLC-37: Old Delta IV infrastructure demolished, construction of new infrastructure (up to two launch towers and two catch towers) contingent on Environmental Impact Statement.