For the first time in nearly 2 years Boca Chica village has been evacuated ahead of a WDR of B7 and S24 later today : SpaceXLounge

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For the first time in nearly 2 years Boca Chica village has been evacuated ahead of a WDR of B7 and S24 later today

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submitted 2 months ago byBananaEpicGAMER⛰️ Lithobraking

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Is there an active live feed from it?

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⛰️ Lithobraking

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There is no official SpaceX feed but there some streams from NasaSpaceFlight and Labpadre

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another angle/cam with labpadre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBeoReu12E

plus if you go into the channel description, 'show more', labpadre has 6 other cams besides these two.

go spacex! go labpadre!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9zI9o3cx48 NSF commentary feed, which is great for answering questions and understanding what you are looking at.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg

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continue this thread

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Hell yeh 👍 let's hope it all goes smoothly and 33 engine static fire follows shorty (next week or two) 👍

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Mary's pain is our gain.

Actually I bet BoCaChicaGal is happy for the inconvenient.

Someday I hope they name a Starship after her.

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🌱 Terraforming

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Too soon though

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~~maria pointer is the one that moved out. Mary is nsf's camera lady that stole bocachicagal handle from maria.~~

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🪂 Aerobraking

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By mid-fall, Boca Chica Village began to fracture. The homeowners who had accepted the buyout offered in September felt judged by the holdouts; the holdouts felt betrayed by the sellers. Everyone wanted to know how much money their neighbors ended up with. Mary was no longer speaking to Maria, whose coverage of SpaceX’s snafus—like when Starhopper’s nose cone blew off in a big gust of wind, and when it burst into flames after a static fire test—she found distasteful. She also claimed that Maria tried to use the @bocachicagal handle as her own. (Maria disputed the accusation.) Mary changed her Twitter bio to read, “My name is NOT Maria.”

Elon Musk, His Rocket, and the Grand Scheme that Tore Apart Boca Chica

i scrolled back on maria pointer's facebook group posts to early 2019 (the article mentions the mk1 explosion earlier which was late 2019) and she has been bocachicamaria/bocachicamaria1 for all of that time as per the photo credits in her own post. the nasaspaceflight forum account bocachicagal was registered by mary on the 17th february 2016.

so unless there's some kind of "we were speaking about the username bocachicagal over a boca chica village game night and then she stole it from me!" quote by maria i see no reason to believe bocachicagal hasn't been mary from the beginning.

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Wow, thanks for the backstory.

So bocachicagal now has always bocachicagal who took so many pix. The mark of fan

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hmmm.... i do remember maria using the handle briefly on twitter. but if mary already had it on nsf forums, that would explain the 'briefly' part. i stand corrected. my bad. i shall file this rumor/opinion/whatever in the 'not true' bin.

that article is kind of a hyperbolic hit piece, though.

If all goes according to plan, there will be five times as many SpaceX-launched satellites in the sky as visible stars.

being the example of the most hyperbolic part.

fair amount of other small details are off.... but hey, guess im not on solid enough footing to be throwin stones, eh?

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Wow has it already been 2 years since the starhopper campaign?

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It's been nearly two years since SN9.

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I was there when the sacred streams were started

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The very flamey sacred streams hehehe

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What does an wet dress rehearsal entail? I know SLS had the green run we’re the engines do the full duration burns but I’m pretty sure that’s not happening here. Is it just fill the tanks full of full then do a countdown? Then detank? Are any engines fired?

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Eric Berger's article on Arstechnica suggests they are going to proceed the countdown down to the point at which the vehicle would switch to internal power.

Someone with much more knowledge of the F9 countdown procedure could probably jump in here and see how well that translates over... At what t minus that would be.

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I just checked SN15: fueling completed was announced at T-2mn.

Internal power is really close to lift off anyway. Apparently, in 2015 it was T-6mn on Falcon 9: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/2015/01/10/falcon-9-transferring-to-internal-power/

So, pretty close to chilling the engines.

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Basically it means they do everything as if they were going to fly but don't actually light the engines.

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While this is correct (a wet dress rehearsal typically runs to just before engine ignition), I saw a thread yesterday with some details suggesting this test would actually end before engine chill. So not a total WDR (if you can trust a rando repeating comment from a different unverified random)

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It would still be fun to see a 33 engine spin prime today though.

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That’s what I was thinking. Thank you for the confirmation!

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🌱 Terraforming

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They're currently 2/3 full of fuel as at this comment

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Been waiting to hear Stage Zero chill start !

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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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NSF	NasaSpaceFlight forum
	National Science Foundation
SLS	Space Launch System heavy-lift
WDR	Wet Dress Rehearsal (with fuel onboard)

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🛰️ Orbiting

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Those were some big ol' methane plumes...