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Here's a Philip Sloss video from before the IFT-14 mission concerning Starship:

Members of NASA's Exploration Ground Systems launch team provided some details about the upcoming Artemis III tanking test in an interview this week, and EGS continues stacking the SLS Boosters in the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, but the bigger unknowns for Artemis at the moment are the readiness of the two HLS providers.

SpaceX is ready to launch the next Starship prototype, which finally will demonstrate orbital flight and deploy new Starlink satellites critical to their business. The question about Starship for Artemis is where NASA is on the list of Starship business priorities?

The space agency also published a set of launch engineering replays for Artemis II, but the latest public releases come at a much lower cadence than their launch cadence ambitions. Hard not to wonder if the low publication cadence says something similar about those priorities.​

Imagery is courtesy of NASA, except where noted.

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Artemis III Watch: Latest stacking update
03:01 Artemis III news takeaways from interview with EGS Integration Console project engineers
10:46 Artemis III big picture, at least what's known in public
13:09 SpaceX previews Starship flight 14, but where does Artemis fit in Starship's future?
16:04 Artemis II launch engineering footage release also highlights low cadence of publication
22:19 Thanks for watching!

Skip to 13:09 for the SpaceX stuff.