 SpaceX's Boost 7 can be static firing soon, SLS has returned to the pad again, Starliner has been delayed again and a lot more is coming up in Mondays to Amore Space News. Starbase has been extra busy this week with full stack testing getting in full swing. Boost 7 can be seen here with its liquid oxygen tank getting frosty. The full stack has also seen another real-time quick disconnect test of the ship QD. Just imagine the vehicle lifting off the pad at the same time as this release. It looks like it could work in my head at least. Ship 25 was joining in the cryoproofing action getting frosty itself on Tuesday and Wednesday. A full stack cryoproof was graced upon us again this week with the methane tanks on the booster and the ship both being partially filled. This was followed after arrest by a cryoproof of the liquid oxygen tanks on both the ship and booster. The next super heavy booster, number 9, has been stacked in the Mega Bay. We can assume that this booster will have upgrades on its predecessor, booster 8, as that booster's fate is bound to the rocket garden. Next ship along the line, number 26 has received its transfer tube. This connects the top tank to the engines through the lower tank. The new tent next to the propellant production site at the launch site is pretty much already covered and it was barely a skeleton a week ago. The first armored raptor engine on the vertical test stand has been spotted down the road in McGregor. The shielding around the outside is supposed to better protect the engine from shrapnel if another engine was to suffer a failure. For all of us orbital flight test fans out there, NASA is predicting that early December is a reasonable time frame to follow. This does include an orbit, not a nearly orbit, with ship 24 entering a stable orbit before immediately re-entering the atmosphere. We're still waiting on the 33 engine static fire however. We were expecting a D-stack around now however at the time of writing on Monday morning, S24 is still firmly a top booster 7. We won't be getting a 33 static fire straight away either, SpaceX will be building their way up through various static fires. Remember the big boom under B7? We've been told that SpaceX has now put quote additional rigor into the testing as well as new leadership to ensure a large amount of fuel doesn't end up being pumped into a cloud of oxygen again. It has also been confirmed that the FAA is yet to grant a launch license to SpaceX, which is obviously needed for a flight. The Psyche Independent Review Board report was released last week and it has some big hits against the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Psyche mission missed the August 2022 launch window because of delays in the development and testing of the spacecraft however that wasn't the only issue. Fundamental management problems and institutional issues at JPL were found to have caused unresolved software problems, vehicle systems not being fully verified and insufficient preparation for mission operations. These issues are also impacting other missions, more on that in a minute. Other issues with the management of the mission included engineers not being able to bring problems to the senior leadership leading to them going unnoticed. This lack of communication was also exacerbated by the pandemic restrictions with remote work limiting informal interactions at JPL. In fact the report noted that the first in-person gathering of this whole team after 18 months was a Christmas party at the end of 2021. The report recommended to JPL that they should improve the hiring and retention of important personnel however it did also highlight that this is becoming increasingly difficult for JPL as the wave of new aerospace companies that have been popping up the Eftereiton Centre can offer engineers and developers much higher salaries than JPL can offer. JPL also has more work than their current workforce can support leading to inadequate staffing, worker burnout, inexperienced managers and therefore a lack of mentoring. The report also recommended that senior management should have a better insight of the current ongoing projects which NASA has confirmed they will be implementing into the psyche mission. A review into the hybrid working style, a mix of being remote and in the office so to speak has also been recommended by the report. JPL's director Laurie Leshin has said that they will investigate this however they will not return to pre-pandemic working policies. On those other mission delays I mentioned earlier the next JPL-led NASA Discovery class mission the Veritas mission to Venus has been delayed by three years to 2031. This move will help to save some money which can then be redirected towards psyche which requires more funding. However Leshin has said that not all of the required funds can be found in a delayed Veritas. It is very good to see though that JPL and NASA are taking the lessons learned in this report and implementing them straight away. Missions such as Europa Clipper and Mars Sample Return will each be checked over to ensure that the institutional problems psyche faced will never be faced again. The full 63-page PDF document will be linked down below with this story's timestamp if you want to give it a read. Some happier news, the space launch system destined to fly the Artemis-1 mission has been rolled out yet again to launch complex 39B. First motion was at 11.17pm local time about three quarters of an hour ahead of schedule. As always the crueler stopped just outside the door to high bay 3 allowing the crew access arm to be swung around and locked into position. After a road trip through the night SES arrived at 39B at half-past eight in the morning on Friday. After being lowered onto the stands that hold up the mobile launch platform the crueler was driven to the perimeter fence of 39B where it will remain for the time being. The next launch date is 0507 Universal Time on November 14th, exactly one week from this episode's release. Surely after all of the bumps which have been flattened out through the various wet dress rehearsals, launch attempts and the critical tanking test this window is THE window where NASA can begin our journey back to the moon. Mother Nature though has once again decided that she wants to be in the spotlight and now there is a subtropical storm north of Puerto Rico which has been given the name Nicole. The eye of this storm is expected to make land for just south of Cape Canaveral in the early hours of Thursday morning local time. According to Eric Berger the majority of the weather models right now show winds under the limits for SLS remaining at the pad but still expect some delays as NASA will not be risking safety with high winds as a hurricane watch has been put into place over the coastal region where the KSC resides. For the latest information on this use the National Hurricane Centre's website as there is a chance that this could develop a lot further before the next news episode. The maiden flight of Starliner with humans aboard has been pushed yet again from February 2023 to April 2023. This time however it's not actually Boeing's folds it's just down to the scheduling of traffic coming and going from the International Space Station during the start of the year. In the first three months of 2023 the ISS is expecting Axiom 2, Progress MS-22, NG-19, Dream Chaser Demo 1, Soyuz MS-23 and SpaceX's Crew 6 and that's not mentioned in the vehicles which will be departing the station. Moving the crew flight test to acquire to time of year is probably for the best in case there are any teething issues. Because of this delay however the operational life of Starliner is no longer expected to start in 2023. SpaceX's Crew 7 mission has been pulled forward from spring 2024 to autumn of 2023 filling the crew rotation gap. The date of the first operational crewed flight called Starliner 1 will be announced following a successful end to the crew flight test. The Long March 5B course stage which started the Monction model's journey to the Tiangong Space Station crashed back into Earth last week just off the coast of Mexico. This ground track courtesy of Jonathan McDowell shows the route the booster was taking towards the western coast of Mexico and Guatemala. According to the US Space Command there was a double re-entry which indicates that the course stage could have broken into two large chunks during re-entry. No debris on land is yet to be found so we could be looking at a pure ocean ditching however the principle of directlessness is still important to amplify. Spain closed airspace because of the possibility that the booster could end up on their territory with Barcelona and Ibiza airports grounding all aircraft. A new model of China's next Super Heavy Lift rocket the Long March 9 has been showcased at the Zhuhai Air Show. This new design takes inspiration from starship with reusability in mind. The boosters are gone. A single stick is the new design. This vehicle will be capable of 150 metric tons to LEO and 50 tons to a lunar transfer orbit. The new Long March 5G has also been unveiled which is the Heavy Lift crew vehicle of China's space program. It does look a tad bit like the old Red Dragon Falcon Heavy concept but that is no match for this next Chinese knockoff. I have no words apart from the fact that whatever this is clearly an improvement it has an extra pair of chopsticks. This model is being displayed by a startup called Space Epoch but do keep in mind that this is just a model. And if this week couldn't get any busier, Japan has performed a static fire of their new H3 rocket. There's not a huge amount to say other than the setting of rockets in the hills is always a good one. Nothing was destroyed either and there wasn't an explosion which is always a plus. Stay tuned to the channel to see how this vehicle developed over the coming months. Space traffic time in the first launch to cover this week is the return of the Falcon Heavy although the only people who managed to see it were out to sea. Luckily though SpaceX had some tracking cameras positioned out of the fog. Right at the start of the 30 minute window which opened at 1341 UTC on November 1st the three cores ignited their 27 million engines and lofted USS F-44 away from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida heading for a geostationary orbit. After the side cores separated the core stage continued burning until it was entirely depleted sending the second stage away to continue its way up to orbit at an extremely fast pace compared to the Falcon 9's we've been watching for the last three years. Because of this what was remaining of the core stage was expended into the Atlantic Ocean whilst side booster B1064 touched down on landing zone 1 and B1065 returned to LZ2. Both of these boosters are currently planned to serve as the side boosters on the next two Space Force classified missions which are USS F-67 next January and USS F-52 next April. The following day out of Russia we had EKS-6 also known as Tundra-6 which was launched on this Soyuz 2.1B at 0648 UTC on the 2nd of November from an unknown pad that possessed Cosmodrome. This military early warning satellite was placed into a monia orbit. That's an orbit that allows the spacecraft to spend the majority of its time over the most northern parts of Earth which is where Russia is. Next up is Hotbird 13G, another telecommunications satellite from UTELSAT. This mission was launched at 0522 Universe on the next day, the third of the month, from Slick 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a Falcon 9. All 4,500 kilos of satellite were delivered to a geostation every transfer orbit whilst the booster supporting this mission, B1067, completed its seventh flight by landing on the drone ship. Just read the instructions. A launch which was designed just days before it was flown was this Electron rocket which flew Rocket Lab's latest helicopter catch attempt. Catch me if you can. This launch commenced at 1727 UTC on guess what, the following day, the 4th of November from Launch Complex 1B on the Mejia Peninsula in New Zealand. Once the first stage had sent the second stage and the payload, the Swedish atmospheric research satellite called MATS, on its way to a 585km sun-synchronous orbit, it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The helicopter was flying around the catch zone, however sadly this catch attempt was even less successful than the last. The last time, the helicopter caught the first stage before having to drop it for safety, however this time around the rocket wasn't caught at all. During re-entry, the telemetry was lost from the first stage and for the safety of the helicopter and its crew, it was immediately ordered to leave the catch zone. On the bright side however, Electron did perform a water splashdown and it was scooped out of the ocean. Of course, it wouldn't be space-traffic without something from China and this week it's coming in the form of the launch of China SAT 19 on this long March 3BE rocket from LC2 at the Xi Chang Satellite Launch Center at an urban 50 universal time on, you've definitely guessed it by now, the following day, the 5th of November. The satellite is assumed to be a KA-band communication satellite broadcasting television radio and relaying data. Its exact masses are known and it was placed into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. It'll be raising itself up to a geostationary orbit. And if you want to know where one of the ferries ended up, it's on someone's house. Sadly, because of a fire alarm in the Douglas Mission Control Center on the first attempt, Northrop Grumman's NG-18 ISS resupply mission did not launch on the 6th of November, but the 7th of November at 1027 UTC from Launch Pad 0A at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. All 3,700 kilos of supplies, which includes the first satellites from Zimbabwe and Uganda, were successfully delivered on their orbit up to the station and Signet will be docking to the Nadir port on the Unity module after this episode's release. Also included in this launch was an interesting manoeuvre after ferrying separation. I have no clue what happened here, but Signet seems to have managed it. It wasn't all smooth sailing prior to the launch, however, quite literally, as a boat inside of the range had an engine failure, leaving it red for launch. And this range violation was caused by a range boat. On Tuesday, SpaceX will be flying the Galaxy 31 and 32 satellites from Slick 40 at the Cape. This launch was then actually pushed to Saturday during the editing of this episode. On Thursday, we'll be saying farewell to the Atlas 5400 series at Vandenberg Space Force Base and Atlas 5 in general from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Whilst it carries the joint Polar satellite system to payload for NOAA, Saturday we'll see the Tianzhou 5 Tiangong resupply mission from Wenchang and we could be seeing Artemis 1 finally fly early on Monday, depending of course on how Nicole will impact space coast activities. Thank you to the citizens of tomorrow. This group support the show once a month financially, and they help to keep the lights on onboard Station 204. If you want to see face-new scripts as they're being written, you'll want to hang out in exclusive hangouts, and much more, head to join.tmro.tv or click the join button below. Here's what you can expect to see over the next week on tomorrow. 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