Orbital Launch and Integration Tower(OLIT) and the Orbital Launch Mount(OLM)


I posted info on the OLIT and OLM on an earlier post HERE. The NSF Update is dated. Here is the latest NSF Update - Starship Flight 14 Nears


Possible Starship launch on Sept 22nd. This will be the first orbital flight of the ship testing it further for its first tower catch coming soon - NSF Launch Schedule


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Test flight 14 launch has bumped up to Sept 22nd at 8:15 am EST. This will be Starship's first orbital flight. Starship has been launching from Texas and splashing down in the Indian Ocean an hour and fifteen minutes later after deploying 20 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit. This first orbital flight is a test for test flight 15 possible ship catch. Ship S42, test flight 15, was transported to pad 2 and was run through a series of test preparing for a ship catch. Changes were made to the chopsticks after test flight 13 prepping for a ship catch

NSF Latest Update - Another very good update. You can scroll to 4:50 for S42 test at the launch pad again prepping for a possible ship catch on test flight 15. All has to go right on test flight 14

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Flight 14 is official, now scheduled on SpaceX. They will attempt a 10 orbit flight able to cut short if an issue occurs. The flight will last 10 hours. Starship is planned to splash down in the southeast Pacific Ocean west of Chile after completing its planned orbits (targeting roughly six to ten orbits depending on the specific profile updates for Flight 14) during its roughly 10-hour mission. You can catch the launch on SpaceX and NSF

NSF Launches - Click on Starship Flight 14 for info

Flight 14