Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2023

SpaceX has installed a pair of rocket-catching arms on a tower meant to support the first East Coast launches of its next-generation Starship rocket. The company has been building the second of several planned Starship launch sites for more than three years. SpaceX broke ground on Starship’s first Florida OLS in late 2019.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2021

CEO Elon Musk says that SpaceX is about to begin the construction of “a much larger high bay” adjacent to the existing structure, an 82m (~270 ft) tall building used to complete assembly of Starship and Super Heavy boosters. High bay construction, September 2020. cranes that will run the full length of the building.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. Blue Origin once projected the first launch of the rocket to be in 2020.

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