Moment of Proof for Ship 20 and Booster 4 - NASASpaceFlight.com - NASASpaceflight.com
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Ahead of Booster 4’s return to the Orbital Launch Site (OLS), and likely to continue for the coming weeks, preparations to complete and prepare Mechazilla hardware have progressed in-situ next to the Launch TowerBooster 4 likewise joined Ship 20 at the launch site when it rolled out of the High Bay on Tuesday before taking up residence near the OLS Launch TowerSporting all 29 of its Raptors, this was Booster 4’s second trip to the launch site, the first marking the historic milestone of conducting fit checks as an integrated stack with Ship 20On Wednesday, Booster 4 was lifted onto the Orbital Launch Mount (OLM)“Booster static fire on orbital launch mount hopefully next week,” noted Musk on Twitter, again with an ambitious timeline but with the important confirmation that Booster 4 is now a resident of the OLM for testing