Stage 1 landing confirmed!

M-vac shutdown and nominal park orbit insertion confirmed.

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation confirmed.

Liftoff!

Webcast is live. Callout for strongback retract, but Vandenberg is very foggy :)

I love how the Arsenal logo partially overlapped on the red stripe of the proposed Union Jack to yield ‘Arse’.

gal

“gall”, I think :)

There’s a small rook just to the left of the largest Swedish flag. Was that them?

Yeah, that was smooth as f*ck. Deplorable, but smooth as f*ck.

McGee was using Autopilot, but had dropped his phone and was inattentive at the time of the crash.

Seems like this could be a factor.

Starbase activities (2025-07-14):

• Jul 13th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Massey’s: A horizontal tank is loaded onto an SPMT and turned around.
• Build site: Work on Gigabay foundation continues. (Roger S / NSF)
• Launch site: Modifications to the Pad 1 launch mount continue. More propellant pipes and support frames are installed. (ViX, Starship Gazer, Starship Gazer 2)
• Conversion of the ship transport stand into ship static fire adapter continues. Side plates are added to direct fire downwards and reinforce the structure when propellant is loaded. (Starship Gazer, Killip)
• RGV Aerial post a close-up flyover photo of the Pad 2 launch mount.

McGregor:

• A pair of vertical tanks arrive for potential testing. The tanks bear similar scorch marks to the tanks removed from Massey’s following the S36 anomaly. (NSF 1, NSF 2)

Flight 10:

• NET 3 weeks, Elon time.

Upper stage shutdown and Tianzhou spacecraft separation.

Fairing separation.

Side booster separation, Korolev Cross, upper stage separation and ignition.

Liftoff!

If done, I think the canvas should start off smaller. I like how full the canvas got this year. If the canvas had expanded on Day 2 of this year’s event, I doubt that there would have been enough time or users to fill it up.

What have folks been up to this past week?

I’ve not done much learning or practice myself, but I did teach a one of my colleagues the process for solving a 3x3x2.

Haha, not on this trip.

Though a couple years ago when solving a cube on a train, I was approached by a young boy who had a 3x3 he couldn’t solve, and I ended up sitting with him for a while. He didn’t speak much English, but he knew colours and orthogonal directions, and he had enough interest for me to teach him how to solve the first layer.

I’ve never seen him again, and I sometimes wonder if he became a cuber.

Starbase activities (2025-07-13):

• Jul 12th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Massey’s: At the methane tank farm, the LR1300 crane rotates two vertical storage tanks and removes a smaller vertical tank. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Build site: The bridge crane in Megabay 2 appears to undergo some certification testing. (ViX)
• Launch site: At Pad 1, another large pipe is lifted into place, and then removed. (NSF 1, NSF 2)
• NSF thread on recent and upcoming modifications to the launch mount to support ship testing. (NSF 1, NSF 2, NSF 3, NSF 4, Killip)
• Killip posts an updated diagram of booster hold down linkages, based on parts spotted at Sanchez. This follows a thread from Apr 24th 1, Apr 24th 2, and Jun 28th.

Bug: I seemed to be able to effectively store up 7 pixels, not 6.

How? The maximum the UI displays is 6/6, but after receiving the 6th pixel, there seems to be an invisible 30 second timer which runs in the background. When I place my next pixel, the timer counts down not from 30, but from whatever the invisible timer was at. If the timer had reached 0, I immediately received an additional pixel.

I’m not complaining about the extra pixel, but it would be nice for the UI to match :)

Feature request: Audio chime when my pixel reserve is full.

Edit: Yes Sugar, I am aware of the audio chime for single pixels :)