Kiko Dontchev

@turkeybeaver · Twitter · 2026-04-21 16:51 UTC

With 39A becoming a primarily Falcon Heavy and Starship pad, we don’t actually need two operational droneships on the east coast to maintain our Falcon manifest. Think of pads/drone ships like airplane runways where you need a landing runway for each takeoff runway (ideally they are the same runway I.e. starship). ASOG can support 4 day launch cycle time with RTLS missions in parallel. This is exactly how we operate on the west coast! JRTI will join the “you’ll thank me later” ship to support Starship and SupeHeavy transport from Starbase to the Cape. We have a plan for any double down range Falcon Heavy missions 🚀🚀🚀