Excavation for Starship's New Water Cooled Pad Begins | SpaceX Boca Chica

SpaceX begins excavating the dirt and concrete beneath the orbital launch mount to make room for the new water cooled steel plate that will be used. This is to try and mitigate the concrete damage at liftoff.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Stair Extension Added
0:22 Earthwork Clearing Begins
1:10 Booster 11 LOX Tank Moved
1:24 LN2 Tanker at the Deluge Tanks
1:42 Bright Flash Over Starbase
1:50 Massey’s Test Site
2:31 B7.1 Test Tank
2:46 Ship 25
3:35 NC31 Test Nosecone
4:24 S26.1 Test Tank
4:36 Nosecone Test Rig Section
4:53 S26.1 Aft
5:17 GSE Tanks for Cryo Tests
5:31 Pan of the Site
6:41 The Orbital Launch Site
7:10 Stairs Constructed on the OLM
7:45 Booster Quick Disconnect
7:59 Ship Quick Disconnect
8:14 Crane With Extension
8:33 Booster 11’s LOX Tank
9:12 Work Continues Under the OLM
9:36 Ship 28 Moved in the High Bay
9:51 New High Bay Section Construction
10:27 Ghost of Ship 24 on the High Bay
10:39 The Orbital Launch Site
10:51 The Orbital Tank Farm
11:05 Ship QD Arm
11:17 The Orbital Launch Tower
11:40 Orbital Launch Mount
12:31 Scaffolding Installed Atop the OLM
13:03 Ship 29’s Nosecone
13:15 Ship 28’s Nosecone
13:30 Booster 9 in the Mega Bay
13:43 Top of the Mega Bay
13:57 New High Bay Prefab Section
14:32 The Rocket Garden
14:48 Platforms to the Pad

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