 SpaceX has fired Booster 7, America's secret space plane has returned to the Kennedy Space Center, NASA's SLS is once again ready for launch, and a lot more is coming up in Monday's tomorrow's space news. Before we get into all of that goodness, though, let's start off the week with a trip to South Texas, specifically Starbase Boca Chica. The theme of this week was definitely testing, which we can see with a liquid oxygen tank cryogenic proof test of Booster 7. The biggest Starbase update this week, however, would be the smooth destacking of Ship 24 and Booster 7. After being hooked up by the chopsticks, S24 was returned to planet Earth below. After completing an ambient temperature pressure test, Ship number 25 was removed from the suborbital pad, which nowadays is just used as a test stand, and placed onto a transport stand. Shortly after, it was rolled to the production site, presumably for the installation of three sea-level raptors and three vacuum-optimized raptors. Once Pad B had been freed up, Ship 24 was taken over and placed onto the mount. Once Booster 7 was left to its own devices, a spin-prime test of multiple engines was conducted. We were hoping for a static fire, and there's a good chance that SpaceX could have just aborted at the last minute. Booster 7 did deliver on Monday, however, igniting multiple raptors for a respectable amount of time. During editing, Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter that 14 Raptor 2 engines had been ignited, doubling SpaceX's total from their last static fire, which was just 7. And what do we have here? During the delivery on the right of your picture, the main door on the payload integration facility at Starbase was left wide open, allowing NSF's Chris K to get this shot of a stack of Starlink V2 satellites. You can see just how huge they are compared to the people conveniently placed there for scale. And speaking of Starlink, the UK's communications regulator, Offcom, has given SpaceX permission to expand the performance of the Starlink network in the country by allowing them to operate six more gateways, which are the ground stations that link to the Starlink network. These will bring the total to nine, which will reduce the average distance between customers and the gateways. At SpaceX's McGregor engine testing facility, many long-duration raptor firings have been caught over the past week, most notably including this five-minute raptor vacuum burn. This is significant because this is roughly the amount of time required to perform a Starship orbital insertion burn. We've also seen a one-minute and 50-second test, a two-minute and 20-second test, and a three-minute and 40-second test. According to the information's Becky Peterson, SpaceX President Gwen Shotwell is taking the reins at Starbase overseeing everything happening at their private spaceports. Now, the Elon Muskist video over at Twitter, it does make sense for number two to take over the job of number one for the time being. Bloomberg has also reported another change in leadership at Starbase, with Tesla's no former head of Austin Gigafactory production, Omed Ashfa, being given the new title of SpaceX's vice president of Starship production. It'll certainly be interesting to see if these switches at the top have any impact at the velocity and efficiency of the Starship program. NASA's space launch system has survived Hurricane Nicole, although, quote, very minor damage was found during initial inspections by NASA. The associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, Jim Free, treated that using the launch pad engineering cameras, no major damage was spotted. The date of Monday the 14th was scrapped before the storm passed through the cabin at the time of writing NASA is still targeting Wednesday the 16th as the first launch attempt they're going to head towards. As a backup, November 19th is still on the table. A peak gust of 132 kilometers per hour was recorded 18 meters above the ground, which is just five kilometers per hour under the safety limit. Other weather stations at the pad recorded gusts up to 160 kph, higher off the ground. However, NASA hasn't told us what the limits are at those heights. Something that was pointed out during the pre-launch briefing by NASA was a strip of RTV material which was blown off during the coal. This is going to be inspected, and if the flight cannot proceed with it, then we're rolling back, baby. If the flight can proceed, however, we'll still go for Wednesday. Another technical glitch that isn't expected to cause any major issues is with the tail service masked umbilical liquid hydrogen connection. However, this does have redundancy. The US Space Force's secret space plane, the X-37B, has just set a new orbital endurance record, returning to Earth after 908 days conducting NASA and military science experiments on its sixth flight. For the first time ever, this mission was launched with a service module giving more capacity for payloads. However, this can't be recovered, so it burns up in the atmosphere whilst the X-37B landed at the former shuttle landing facility at the Kennedy Space Center. This mission began back in May of 2020, launching from Slick 41 on an Atlas V. One of the NASA experiments which caught my eye was the Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space experiment abbreviated to METIS II, which exposed multiple materials to the vacuum of space. The results of this experiment will then allow NASA to better calibrate their ground models, giving them a better understanding on how the materials will behave in space. If you're keeping track, here are the incredible stats of this vehicle. It has now spent 3,774 days in space travelling over 2 billion kilometres around the Earth. That's billion with a B. The latest mission, OTV-6, beat OTV-5's endurance record of 780 days by 128 days, which is quite the feat. Aspiring German space-line rocket factory Augsburg, commonly known as just RFA, have unveiled their second stage to the world of their first rocket, which is called RFA-1. And this isn't a pathfinder. This is THE second stage they want to fly into space. If it looks a bit odd, that's because the engine currently installed, known as the Helix, isn't a vacuum-optimised version. It's a sea-level version. After the test campaign, which is coming up for this stage, is completed, the vacuum engine will be installed before the flight, which is heavily speculated to be commencing from sax reward spaceport on the tip of Shetland in Q4 of 2023. Just like with their previous testing regimes, RFA will be driving up to the Swedish Space Corporation's facilities in northern Sweden, where they'll be pushing their second stage to its limits over the next six months. We're starting this week's traffic update aboard the Tiangong Space Station with resupply mission Tiangio 4, undocking from the Tiangé aft port at 0655 UTC on November the 9th. This vehicle will have already or will be soon burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. After that space station departure, we had an ISS arrival with Cygnus NG18 being captured by the Canada Arm at 1020 Universal Time on Wednesday. You may have noticed that only one of the solar panels had fully deployed, however, even with half-degenerating capacity, NASA ruled that it was safe for Cygnus to proceed with the birthing procedure, which was completed at 1305. Next up on Thursday the 10th, the final ever Atlas V out of Vandenberg was lifting off Launch Complex III East at 0949 UTC, carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System II for NOAA and lofted NASA's low-Earth orbit flight test of an inflatable decelerator. After the former was successfully placed into its unsynchronous orbit, the latter was inflated and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. After inflating its parachute, the inflatable heat shield splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. With the success of this test mission, the technology is ready to be applied to future crew and robotic missions to places with atmospheres, such as Mars. China launched twice over the past week. Firstly, it was Yinhai III, a satellite which has been reported to research the atmosphere and environment. This launched at 2252 UTC on Friday, the 11th of November, from Launch Complex 98 at the Taian Satellite Launch Center. The next day, the 12th, at 0203 Universal, precisely the resupply mission, Taian Joe V, was launched by this long March 7 from LC 201 and the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Henan Island. After obliterating the three hours and three minutes soil speed runtime, the cargo vessel arrived at the Taian Gong Space Station just two hours and seven minutes after launch, docking to the aft port on the Taianakore module at 0410 UTC the same day, setting a brand new world record. SpaceX are making the traffic segment this week right at the end with their 52nd flight of the year. This guarantees an average of one flight per week for this year, which is just insane. For this flight, Falcon 9 was carrying Galaxy 31 and Galaxy 32 for IntelSat, which are two more satellites designed to free up space from older satellites on the 300 megahertz spectrum, which is used for 5G. If the satellites work, IntelSat will receive $4.9 billion from the Federal Communications Commission. The booster supporting this mission, B1051, completed its 14th mission by not landing on a drone ship, not returning to a launch site, but burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. The fairings, however, were scooped up by support ship Bob. Coming up over the next seven days, ABL Space Systems are debuting their brand new RS-1 rocket from Kodiak, Alaska. China is flying YARGAN-3403 on a long March 4C from Zhiyuquan. Ultimus-1 is launching on the Space Launch System on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday is a Ceres-1 from Galactic Energy with several Zhilin-1 satellites. Thursday we'll see Starlink Group 2, Mission 4 from Vandenberg, and Sunday we'll see UTCat 10B. Also on a Falcon 9 from the Cape. Before we end up the show and as I catch my breath, thank you to all of the citizens of tomorrow who helped to keep the lights on aboard Station 204. In return for their kindness, these lovely folks get access to Space News Script as they're being written. 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