I kind of can’t believe they’re still around. They haven’t launched anything in over two years, and their overall success rate is 2/7.

I don’t drink coffee and I don’t drive. There is nothing here for me.

Goodbye

Starbase activities (2024-07-19):

• Jul 18th cryo delivery tally.
• Overnight, chopsticks carriage moves from Brownsville Port to Sanchez. (LabPadre, ViX, NSF, Gomez, Beyer).
• Starship V2 test tank moves from Megabay 2 to Massey’s. (LabPadre, ViX 1, ViX 2, NSF 1, NSF 2).
• S30: Scaffolding has been removed from nosecone.
• New hardware spotted at build site. Possible ship lifting jig and stairs.
• A peek at the Pez dispenser inside the Starlink building.
• New road delays posted for “transportation operations” on Jul 21st (06:00 to 09:00 or 12:00 to 03:00) and for “operaciones de transporte” on Jul 22nd (00:00 to 03:00).

*Omnomnom

Crisco

Damn, that sucks for everyone who worked on it:

I am/was on this project and today has been a truly devastating day. @JeffBezos @elonmusk, this rover is fully built, tested and operational, requiring only one last environmental test. Unless funding (from outside NASA) intervenes by August 1, we will have to deintegrate/scrap

It seems a real shame to scrap a fully built lunar rover.

Starbase activities (2024-07-18):

• Jul 17th cryo delivery tally.
• Overnight, the remaining chopstick moves from Brownsville Port to Starbase. (LabPadre, ViX, Beyer, NSF)
• Also overnight, the second and third angled wall sections are lifted to Tower B.
• In the morning, tower module 3 is stacked. (LabPadre, ViX, DeffJeff, NSF 1, NSF 2, NSF 3, NSF timelapse, Beyer, Starship Gazer, Doherty, )
• Lifting jig disconnects from tower.
• A large spool of some sort (Drawworks cables?) heads towards launch site. (closeup)
• The chopsticks carriage is preparing for transport from Brownsville Port to Starbase. (Doherty, cnunez)

Other:

• New annotated Starbase maps from Boca Bingo.

I always upvote Technology Connections.

Yeah, who would want to bring more glitter into the world? Especially when compared to the superpower of talking to plants.