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Tristan Neary
Lost in Space
term 4 English assignment

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I woke up on a Tuesday morning, but not any regular Tuesday morning it was the morning of the launch to mars, 16 everyday regular people on the way to repopulate the red planet. Hours before launch we ate breakfast, on the menu was bacon, eggs and beans, for this is our last earth meal in a long time. After breakfast we got put in our space suits and were going through all the safety procedures, in case the shuttle loses power in space or runs out of rocket fuel, as everyone said goodbyes to their proud families and wished them a good rest of their lives, tears of joy and sadness ran down their face.

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Minutes before launch we were buckled in our seats, eight on each row, in two rows. As the counter ticked down too one, the rockets force pushed us up into the air, we sat and looked out the window at the scene of Houston, a beautiful haven for rockets to launch to mars, I was thinking that this group of everyday people will be the first of many to colonise the red planet, I thought of the pressure of being the foundation of the next generation of the human race.

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As we left the atmosphere our spacecraft flew into a rift, a crack in space pulling us into a different part of the cosmos, unconscious and alone for hours, in the dark, floating in the abyss, and light years from the nearest planet. As we regained consciousness we realised every radar and communication system were not working, we were lost in space, not knowing where we are, we panicked, scared and lost.

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Drifting at an unknown speed we sat for hours waiting and desperately trying to call help, inside, sick, tired and afraid of the fact of death, everyone started to stress out at each other, fights broke out and one of the other coloniser volunteers nearly died after he got punched in the temple and bled all over the floor.

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Weeks past and we were still lost, but that Wednesday on 12/October/2037 I remember I looked at the spaceship’s digital screen and at that date, three people from our crew died, an unexpected death, but as we checked the bodies, stab wounds were along their chests, they were killed in their sleep, otherwise someone would’ve heard their scream for help.

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There is a problem now in the “galactic discovery 69” a murderer is in the ship. I couldn’t sleep on that date because I was petrified, in my mind I was thinking about my family at home not knowing where I was, I cried, a grown man in his late 20s was crying, I didn’t want to die. The next few dates were long I did not sleep once, I staked out for a while, until on the 19/October/2037 I saw Jake, he stabbed someone in their sleep, Harley I believe his name was. I wanted to scream for help but I didn’t want to die, so I shut my eyes hoping he thought I was sleeping.

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He killed many more of the crew, only me knowing who the killer was. I watched many of my friends die, my selfish act killed many of my crew mates, leaving only me and the killer, I stabbed him whilst he slept and threw his body out the vacuum door. I watched his body drift away through space, I was alone in space not knowing where I was, so I took my own life.

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For the second time in five weeks, SpaceX has rolled Starship's first orbital-class Super Heavy booster from its Starbase factory to the launch pad ahead of a challenging and multifaceted test campaign.

Deemed Super Heavy Booster 4 or B4, the 69m (~225 ft) tall rocket first rolled to the launch pad around August 3rd after SpaceX technicians fitted it with 29 Raptor engines in a single night. Followed by orbital-class Starship prototype S20 a few days later, the two stages of a Starship were stacked to their full height on August 6th, briefly creating the largest rocket ever assembled. Ship 20 was then quickly returned to the build site, where SpaceX workers completed an additional ~10 days of finishing touches - mainly focused on avionics wiring and secondary plumbing.

A week later, Booster 4 followed Ship 20 back to Starbase's 'high bay,' where teams ultimately removed all 29 of its Raptor engines and spent the next four or so weeks performing similar final integration work. Now, after installing what looks like hundreds of feet of wiring, dozens of additional gas and fluid lines, compressed gas tanks, hydraulic 'sleds' SpaceX's first flightworthy Super Heavy has once again returned to the launch site

A bit less than two weeks ago, SpaceX once again installed 29 Raptors on Booster 4. This time around, though, all of those engines are believed to be ready for flight - or, at minimum, static fire testing - after completing qualification testing at SpaceX's Central Texas development facilities. Intriguingly, every one of Super Heavy's outer ring of 20 'Raptor Boost' engines is also expected to have its own small umbilical panel that will connect to the orbital launch pad's ground systems.

When Booster 4 was installed on the brand new orbital launch mount, most of those individual engine connectors had yet to be installed and it's unclear if SpaceX was actually able to test the complex mechanisms before Super Heavy returned to the build site. This time, all 20 engine umbilical actuators have been installed on the launch mount and it's safe to assume that those mechanisms will be tested extensively in the coming weeks.

These are actually believed to be individual Raptor Boost umbilical connectors.

That testing will be part of a much more involved test campaign. Namely, if SpaceX intends to test Super Heavy Booster 4 at the orbital launch site, any booster testing will simultaneously require the shakedown of the orbital pad's extensive, custom-built tank farm and a wide range of other ground infrastructure that simply didn't exist at the start of 2021. Booster 4 qualification is no less daunting, as no Super Heavy has ever been fully tested. Now in the midst of being scrapped in place at SpaceX's suborbital test facilities, Super Heavy Booster 3 did complete a partial cryogenic proof test and a static fire with three Raptor engines, but SpaceX has never fully filled a Super Heavy with >3000 tons (~6.6M lb) of propellant and never static fired more than three Raptor engines simultaneously.

Super Heavy Booster 4 during its first installation on the orbital launch mount.

Perhaps the most uncertain part of Super Heavy Booster 4 qualification is its static fire test campaign. However SpaceX gets there, the final challenge will likely be igniting all 29 of B4's Raptor engines - potentially producing up to ~5400 tons (11.9M lbf) of thrust, thus making Super Heavy the most powerful rocket booster ever tested.

Simultaneously, SpaceX also began reinstalling Raptors on Ship 20 - currently installed at Suborbital Pad B - ahead of the Starship's first proof test(s) and static fire(s). Stay tuned for updates on SpaceX's plans for testing the first orbital-class Starship and Super Heavy booster.

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SpaceX's first orbital-class Super Heavy booster rejoins Starship at the launch pad

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For the second time in five weeks, SpaceX has rolled Starship's first orbital-class Super Heavy booster from its Starbase factory to the launch pad ahead of a challenging and multifaceted test campaign. Deemed Super Heavy Booster 4 or B4, the 69m (~225 ft) tall rocket first rolled to the launch pad around August 3rd after ...