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Earlier this month, NASA's Kennedy Space Center posted the Draft PEA for SpaceX's expansion of its Roberts Road campus for Starship. This would expand the site from 167 acres to nearly 400 acres, more than doubling the existing footprint at the site.
Neutron's debut officially delayed to 2027. Peter explains issues with laying carbon fiber for the domes. They've now been addressed but that delayed this first flight. Q1 is target to finish and qualify first stage tank structures, then a more specific launch target will come.
I know no one might care about this, but if Starship goes orbital on Monday it'll be 18 years after Falcon 1 first reached orbit. It was SpaceX's 4th launch overall.
NASA has begun the installation of the four RS-25 engines that will power the SLS Core Stage for Artemis III. Engines 2 and 3 are in position according to the most recent pictures released by the agency.
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