Space Nerd and Blender Artist 🌌🖌️ • OLIT Expert🕵🏻♂️ • Orbital Pad B 🗿
Jun 13, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Good Morning, #Starship fans!
OLIT Foundation Thread is here!
In the following posts I will give you a detailed description of how the foundation for the third Orbital Launch and Integration Tower was built and how the finished product looks like.
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Let’s start with the piles, just like the workers did. A continuous flight augering drill, or short CFA drill, starts drilling a 105‘ (32m) deep hole. As the drill retracts its auger drill, concrete is pumped into the hole. (pile count: 133)
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