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Good catch!

Now I'm curious how they will fill in the gap between hexagons and squares, most likely it's going to have to be custom ones for that

S20 now has an aft flap and more TPS tiles Direct comparison between the pic @sevenperforceposted 12 hours ago before this one:

...yes, it's what they still want to do. Nobody is talking about flipping SH, Elon is simply spittballing on twitter how gridfins may not be the optimal design for maximum payload and using something that increases drag (i.e. aerobrakes) instead to use less fuel to land. However, keep in mind that when he writes stuff like this it's just throwing ideas that haven't been discussed, like when he wanted to consider catching the upper stage itself. Ideas, not plans With that we are at least at 5 new raptor deliveries only today, which is possible to be higher as in the previous transportation Mary said she arrived when they had already started the unloading. Whatever the number of Raptors at Starbase atm, we're very close

Why should they? They literally proved the flip works, and Starship can even hover. Chutes will never happen because it slows down recovering by a lot and really aren't needed, and it already lands like falcon. They already started making fins smaller by the way, the S20 ones are less huge than the SN8 to 15

Or three or four, we can't see behind B4!

They also already replaced the broken ones it seems

The load points where the tower catches superheavy are, at least the last time we heard about that, supposed to be right under the grid fins. But since Starbase videos have started to get outdated on average less than a day after they are out, this could as well have changed. Crossed fingers for Tim revealing more news about that in the interview

According to insiders on r/spacex, 21 of the 29 raptors for B4 are already at Starbase! Assuming will carry them the way they did these last ones (4 per truck), 2 more trips to go

The text and the imagine don't match, because this is extremely exciting!

Worst case Tim Starbase tour video, best case that long awaited elon interview about SpaceX

That's unlikely, they would be quite useless in that position even compared to the N1 where they proved to be underpowered. I believe that rumour came out just because they were attached to B4 extended

Lift has gone down, first grid fin installed! It wiggles a bit earlier, presumably a little test of the mechanism Also, it is possible that what we see under the attachment points is the load point where the booster is to be caught in the future Finally, the text on the grid fin says gridfin#4, so it's possible they are all already at starbase

B4's LOX tank lifted and stacked with the rest of the vehicle. Correction to what I said yesterday, *now* we're one stacking away from completion

Blue Origin statement on the GAO rejecting the HLS protest

It is literally a press release

Clear enough?

Boeing is reportedly happy as the internal clocks on Starliner were found to be one week ahead (/s)

B4 penultimate stacking before being complete in progress

Phew

...just to be clear, does it mean that they weren't intended to be fired or that something mulfunctioned?

Four more raptors today, which makes it 8 in 2 days. If they don't have enough for the booster yet they're getting close

When Roscosmos streams better than you, that means you have a serious problem

Those very long solar panels with an integrated micrometeor detector as well as the odd lateral solar panels would be amazing!