{"id":135343,"date":"2022-02-08T04:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/spacex-preparing-the-ultimate-backdrop-for-elon-musks-starship-update"},"modified":"2022-02-08T04:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:23:37","slug":"spacex-preparing-the-ultimate-backdrop-for-elon-musks-starship-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/spacex-preparing-the-ultimate-backdrop-for-elon-musks-starship-update","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX preparing the ultimate backdrop for Elon Musk\u2019s Starship update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-preparing-the-ultimate-backdrop-for-elon-musks-starship-update2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the third time, SpaceX has installed Super Heavy Booster 4 (B4) on Starbase\u2019s lone orbital launch mount, kicking off preparations for CEO Elon Musk\u2019s upcoming presentation.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision that is difficult to logically explain, however, SpaceX chose to install Super Heavy on the \u2018orbital launch mount\u2019 with a crane instead of a complex pair of giant arms explicitly designed to lift, stack, and catch Starship hardware that the company has spent the last several months installing and testing.<\/p>\n<p>This does not make a great deal of sense. One obvious explanation would be that those arms \u2013 despite completing multiple lift tests with hundreds of tons of water bags in recent weeks \u2013 are not ready for lifting and stacking operations. However, Starbase does not have a crane large enough to lift Starship S20 onto Booster 4, meaning that SpaceX almost certainly intends to use the tower\u2019s arms to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third time, SpaceX has installed Super Heavy Booster 4 (B4) on Starbase\u2019s lone orbital launch mount, kicking off preparations for CEO Elon Musk\u2019s upcoming presentation. In a decision that is difficult to logically explain, however, SpaceX chose to install Super Heavy on the \u2018orbital launch mount\u2019 with a crane instead of a complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}