De life support systems zijn inderdaad nog nergens waargenomen in Boca Chica, maar wat zeker is dat er al van voor februari 2024 testen plaatsvinden daarvoor.
Since being selected as the lander to return humans to the surface of the Moon for the first time since Apollo, SpaceX has completed more than 30 HLS specific milestones by defining and testing hardware needed for power generation, communications, guidance and navigation, propulsion, life support, and space environments protection.
https://www.nasa.gov/imag...environments%20protection.
Er is veel achter de schermen dat wij niet te zien krijgen. Wat we via een reactie van NASA deze week te weten zijn gekomen is dat ze SpaceX nog steeds betalen voor mijlpalen in de ontwikkeling van HLS, men zit dus niet stil.
NASA has paid SpaceX a total of $2.7B under its HLS contract.
SpaceX brought home $620M of HLS milestone payments last year. And $220M so far this year.
I reached out to NASA earlier this year regarding the outlays, as they seem high given Starship has yet to orbit Earth, demonstrate full in-space refueling, or land on the Moon.
This was NASA's response:
“All work associated with the base period has been completed and all related milestones fully paid – work continues under Option A and Option B. Recent progress includes a design review, individual subsystem development and testing, and SpaceX’s Starship integrated flight test campaign.
NASA continues to work closely with SpaceX on progress toward milestones. These include certification baseline review, critical design review, design certification review, uncrewed lunar landing demonstration mission, Starship HLS depot, tanker, and lander flight readiness reviews, and a lunar orbit checkout review.”
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Wat mij de laatste tijd opvalt is dat Blue Origin op X vorige week informatie deelde over hun werk aan hun eigen maanlander. Bij SpaceX blijft het daar stil over, terwijl we van SpaceX gewoon zijn regelmatig informatie te krijgen over hun Starship programma, maar niet over HLS. Blue Origin probeert duidelijk te laten zien dat ze op tijd klaar zullen zijn, zal SpaceX daarop een reactie geven?
We’re getting close to the final stretch of training for our first Blue Moon MK1 mission. This month, we’re running end-to-end, high-fidelity simulations of several mission phases —launch, apogee‑raise burn, lunar orbit insertion, descent orbit insertion, landing, and surface ops. From our lunar Mission Control in Washington, controllers execute real procedures, send commands into a flight‑representative sim, and read telemetry from an emulation of the global network of ground stations and satellites we’ll use during the flight.
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’s SCALPSS (Stereo Cameras for Lunar Plume-Surface Studies) was recently installed on our Blue Moon MK1 lander. It will measure how much lunar dust is stirred up during landing and capture any resulting crater formation, providing data to inform the design of future lunar landers and reduce risk for crewed missions.
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EDIT: hoe krijg ik X posts correct weergegeven?

Heb het dan maar even in quotes geplaatst.
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