After a period of slow visible progress at SLC-4. Activity has once again picked up pace. Warm conditions prevailed, causing a fair amount of heat shimmer in the pics.



The first definitive earth moving in construction for the landing pad at SLC-4W has commenced with all old Titan era concrete removed in the former MST park site and grading, filling, and leveling earthworks taking place. The old Titan flame trench, exhaust duct, and low relief structures do not appear to be involved (as of yet) in the conversion to a landing facility, leaving open the (rumored) possibility of future launches from this site.



The Launch table has been connected to the transporter erector and the launch mount structure rotated from horizontal for the first time in over a year. This afforded a unique view of the bottom of the launch table. The top was also visible, from a significant distance from the north, showing the modular nature of the launch mount plugs installed for single stick Falcons, which will be removed for Heavy operations, leaving a larger opening for the three core exhaust stream.



With the launch table removed, an oblique view of updated pad plumbing is visible, showing a few changes over the last 6 weeks. The left most of the newly installed white tanks had been labelled as liquid nitrogen, and the other new tanks have been given identification letters in series from right to left.



The concrete work to the right of the flame duct is complete forming a smooth level concrete surface in this formerly sloping sunken space.