This SpaceX Status Report is updated throughout the day.
Boca Chica, Texas
Starship Testing
SN7.1 Pressure Test to Destruction
- Primary Date – September 14, 2020 – 9:00 pm – 6:00 am
- Backup Date – September 15, 2020 – 9:00 pm – 6:00 am
- Backup Date – September 16, 2020 – 9:00 pm – 6:00 am
SN? Test
- Primary Date – September 17, 2020 – 9:00 pm – 6:00 am
- Backup Date – September 21, 2020 – 9:00 pm – 6:00 am
- Backup Date – September 22, 2020 – 9:00 pm – 6:00 am
Starship Status
- SN5 – Shipyard
- 08/26/2020 – Moved out of the mid-bay to make room for SN8 stacking.
- 08/04/2020 – 150m Hop
- SN6 – Shipyard
- 09/12/2020 – Moved out of Mid Bay
- 09/03/2020 – 150m hop test successfully completed
- 08/26/2020 – Mass simulator installed
- 08/23/2020 – Static fire test successfully executed at 7:44 pm CT (00:44 UTC).
- 08/18/2020 – Installing Raptor SN29
- 08/16/2020 – Ambient and cryo test completed successfully
- SN7.1 – Test Stand B
- 09/12/2020 – Moved onto Test Stand B launch mount.
- 09/10/2020 – Cryo Proof test completed.
- 09/07/2020 – Transported to Test Stand B
- 08/28/2020 – Test tank fully stacked.
- SN8 – Mid Bay
- 08/29/2020 – Stacked to the usual “full” level.
- 08/27/2020 – Stacking thrust section in the mid-bay.
- 08/21/2020 – Thrust stack and top dome stacked.
- 08/15/2020 – The thrust section was flipped.
- SN9 – Under construction
- 09/04/2020 – Trust dome sleeved
- 08/28/2020 – Front dome sleaved with a ring stack that includes heat shield tile mounts.
- 08/15/2020 – Common dome sheathed.
- SN10 – Under construction
- 09/09/2020 – The upper bulkhead was sleaved with a four-ring stack. All of the previous upper bulkheads have been sleeved with a three-ring stack.
- 09/04/2020 – Thrust puck and fuel downcomer delivered.
- SN11 – Under construction
- 09/09/2020 – Aft dome section spotted.
- SH-SN1 – Under construction
- 09/02/2020 – The first Super-Heavy booster (Per Elon Musk).
Facilities Status
- Low Bay – A stacked nosecone assembly. Three other nosecone assemblies in various stages of completion are in the immediate area.
- Mid Bay – SN8
- High Bay – Under construction
- More roof structural components installed.
- Test Stand A – Empty
- Test Stand B – SN7.1
- Orbital Launch Mount – Under construction – The sixth column has been sleeved.
- Landing Pad – Empty
- Old Gas Well – On-site methane (CH4) propellant production?
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Kennedy Space Center
Starlink 12
- Thursday, September, 17th, 2:17 pm EDT (UTC-4) – This is the 13th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. This will bring the total number of Starlink satellites to ~691.
Starlink 13
- NET September – TBD – This is the 14th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. This will bring the total number of Starlink satellites to ~691.
Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
GPS 3 SV04
- Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 8:00 pm-12:00 am EDT (0000-0400 UTC)
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