As seen in photos and NASAspaceflight.com footage from Mary (BocaChicaGal) on Tuesday, SpaceX is preparing to lift SN15 back onto the launch pad, this time onto Suborbital Pad B.
The news follows last week’s successful SN15 lift off and landing without an explosion, despite later needing to extinguish a small fire. The nosecone test rig has also been rolled out to the launch pad, located at SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch facility in southern Texas.
Starship SN15 is being prepared for a lift back onto the launch pad, this time Suborbital Pad B. It is unclear if it will be flown again but Elon has stated they may attempt to.
Video & Photos from Mary (@BocaChicaGal) and the NSF Robotic Camera Team
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— Brady Kenniston (@TheFavoritist) May 12, 2021
While it’s unclear if SpaceX’s SN15 is being prepared for flight or not, Elon Musk has stated that they “might try to refly SN15 soon,” so it’s definitely not beyond the realm of possibility.
Might try to refly SN15 soon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 7, 2021
Over the weekend, Musk announced SpaceX’s DOGE-1 Mission, which was paid for by Dogecoin earnings, after touting Dogecoin and Bitcoin amid growing cryptocurrency popularity.
SpaceX also launched a record tenth successful Falcon 9 Booster flight on Sunday, adding another 60 Starlink satellites to its growing satellite constellation. Starlink service currently has over 500,000 orders worldwide, even though it’s only in beta and is still rolling out its satellite network – expected to continue throughout much of 2022.
Musk and SpaceX have also attempted to purchase more land surrounding the Boca Chica, Texas facility in recent months, despite a few holdouts.
