This afternoon at Starbase, crews lifted the first tower crane section into place. Once the crane is assembled, construction on the GigaBay will start to ramp up! Follow along on our 24/7 livestream, Starbase Live, linked in the comments below. 👇 | NASASpaceflight.com

In Starbase, the Mega Bay 1 door has fully opened, revealing a shiny Booster 16 on its transport stand. It’s likely headed to the Rocket Garden as it waits for its partner, Ship 37 to be ready for Starship Flight 10. Follow along with us, over on Starbase Live! Link in the comments below. 👇 | NASASpaceflight.com

19K views · 249 reactions | From our latest Starbase Update: With SpaceX around a month away from Flight 5 of Starship, the future launch cadence of Starbase will be aided by a second Tower, which has started assembly at the launch site. For all the details be sure to check out the full video, link in comments below  | NASASpaceflight.com | Facebook

From our latest Starbase Summary (Sep 4-7, 2025): Construction continued on the Mega Bunker, Air Separation Unit, and Giga Bay foundation; the test article, Booster 18.3 forward section (with integrated hot staging ring) made an appearance; and flight-proven Super Heavy Booster 15-2 was rolled to the launch pad, stacked on the launch mount, and performed what appeared to be an excellent, full-duration static fire test! It was an action-packed few days, so to watch the full Starbase Summary video