PREVIEW - SPACEX Colleague Bob Zimmerman presents what is immediately needed for the Boca Chica launch site - an increase in launch cycle frequency and a greatly expanded launch facility. More details tonight.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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| 0:30.6 | This is John Batchel, |
| 0:31.9 | a conversation with my good colleague, |
| 0:33.6 | Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black, |
| 0:35.8 | watching Boko Chica for the next launch of Starship |
| 0:38.5 | Super Heavy at the same time, can the Boca site be expanded to provide security? There is some |
| 0:45.4 | question about people getting too close to the, what should have to say, very delicate and |
| 0:51.9 | volatile equipment. Bob speaks to expanding Boca Chica, more to the point. |
| 0:59.4 | Can Boca Chica be expanded enough to increase the rocket firing rate? The pace, that's everything |
| 1:05.5 | for Musk. It's not just reusability. They need turnover. They need to build a park, a vast landscape of |
| 1:13.4 | chopsticks that are launching and taking off and launching and taking off like Grand Central |
| 1:20.1 | Station. Can Bocachia could be expanded, or do they need a new piece of America to launch to the future? |
| 1:28.2 | Bob speaks to it right now. |
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