Starbase activities (2025-07-11):

• Jul 10th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Build site: Overnight, two more R-vacs are delivered. Megabay 2 should contain a full set of engines for S37, plus an extra R-vac. (ViX 1, ViX 2)
• Massey’s: An LR1300 crane is delivered and assembled. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• Launch site: At Pad 2, the top part of the LOX booster quick disconnect cover is lifted into place. (ViX)
• At Pad 1, modifications to the booster quick disconnect hood to support ship testing continue. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3, Priel, rocketjunkie94, Anderson, Golden)

Happy cake day!

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Pixilart

https://www.pixilart.com/draw

A free online pixel art tool, useful for creating templates.

In the ‘COLORS’ tab, there is an “Import Palette” function, where you can paste in a comma-separated string of hex codes.

List of hex codes for all 33 colours in the 2025 palette:

ffffff,b9c3cf,777f8c,424651,1f1e26,000000,382215,c06f37,fead6c,ffd2b1,ffa4d0,f14fb4,e973ff,a630d2,531d8c,242367,0334bf,149cff,8df5ff,02bfa5,16777e,054523,18862f,61e021,b1ff37,ffffa5,fde111,ff9f17,f66e08,550022,99011a,f30f0c,ff7872

Yes, that is indeed the community we are in.

The pumpkin carver is neat.

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I do not understand.

As long as he attacks first, he’ll be fine, right?

I’m not sure if that “CRACK” is the fourth wall break joke or something more sinister.

The Rubik’s cube changes states from one panel to the next. We can see only one face clearly in the first panel, but in the last two panels we can see:

• a corner piece with two green stickers
• a corner piece with two red stickers
• a corner piece with two white stickers
• two corners which are both yellow-blue-X
• two blue center pieces
• two yellow center pieces

Any one of these sticker arrangements makes the cube unsolvable, so we can be fairly confident that Breathed did not look at a reference cube when drawing this strip.

Starbase activities (2025-07-10):

• Jul 9th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Build site: Overnight, three engines arrive at Megabay 2, presumably for S37, bringing the total to two R-center and two R-vacuum Raptors. (LabPadre, ViX 1, ViX 2, NSF, Planatus666)
• Killip posts some speculative renders on the interior of the recently installed booster transfer tube / header tank. (Killip 1, Killip 2, Killip 3)
• Gisler posts a zoomed photo of a header tank in Starfactory.
• Launch site: At Pad A, a structure to support flexible hoses for ship propellant filling is installed via a hole cut in the back of the booster quick disconnect hood. (Anderson / NSF)
• Seagull.
• RGV conduct a flyover. (photos, video) (Edit: These are from Jul 4th)

Florida:

• Steel pieces are delivered for the flame trench at LC-39A. (Anderson / NSF)

Thanks! I’ve added your Reddit username to the list.

Thanks; added!

Do either you or @DosDude@retrolemmy.com have an active Reddit account?

I’m glad they were caught, and I think it was the right decision in this situation, but the case sets an interesting precedent.

Yeah, it’s a solid bunch. We’re coming up on ten years since the first Falcon 9 booster landing. Multiple chinese companies are developing F9 clones. Europe really ought to be testing reusable boosters by now. Hopefully at least one of these will work out.

NOW I know what hampster Huey and the gooey kablooie is

I mean, it’s only mentioned in the throwaway joke in the first two panels, and we don’t really get any information on it other than the title.