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In reply to TexAgs91 • 12:00p, 1/28/23
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TexAgs91 said:
Kunkle for Congress TX-34 said:
The best thing to do is to stay where ever you want and make your way to the County Park/Jetties for day of the launch. Personally, we spend the day fishing there and just park our car right on the water looking across the channel to the launch facility.

How close could you get on Hwy 4 during a launch?


I doubt it'll be open beyond Brownsville. Port Isabel or a south/southeast-facing room at The Pearl will be better spots.
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In reply to bthotugigem05 • 3:39p, 1/28/23
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Someone here will inevitably wind up finagling an invitation to the rooftop bar on the assembly building down the road. Won't be me, but I'll be jealous.
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3:42p, 1/28/23
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Historically 48 (PI to Brownsville) has been open and the view is great
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In reply to nortex97 • 3:45p, 1/28/23
https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/6377452002?gh_jid=6377452002

Job posting still active. Time to sit the wife and kid down for a discussion on everyday life in the RGV.
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4:39p, 1/28/23
The project has been very good for the local economy.
Our thoughts on the current controlled EXTRATERRESTRIAL reality disclosure process and related US GOV cover-up? Once the uneasy, contagious giggling subsides, how will our civilization and the mislead sheep adapt to this publicly known reality? Are the good Shepherds withholding the truth in our best interest? Perhaps multiple species are involved?
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In reply to fka ftc • 5:03p, 1/28/23
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"Here's the deal, babe, I've decided I wanna be a bartender. No, not necessarily like Tom Cruise in the movie Cocktail in the Caribbean etc., but way cooler. Hear me out, you know the beautiful area around Corpus/Padre?…"
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In reply to nortex97 • 5:34p, 1/28/23
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Someone here will inevitably wind up finagling an invitation to the rooftop bar on the assembly building down the road. Won't be me, but I'll be jealous.


I'm not sure where I'll be but it'll be with some early SpaceX investors, camera ready
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5:34p, 1/28/23
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We actually lost our local bartender (quarterfinalist in 2020 National contest) to the daggum commissary at SpaceX BC
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6:41p, 1/28/23
It's hard to imagine how poorly an award winning bartender must have been tipped in your area to opt for an hourly wage in a commissary.
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5:26a, 1/29/23
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Interesting nuclear thermal propulsion program Nasa just announced, for a demonstrator in 2027.



BWXT is making their triso beads for DOE already now, which are basically 'safe' nuclear fuel pellets that, for space purposes, if a rocket blew up on the pad/lower atmosphere wouldn't cause a big radioactive issue, I believe. This sort of nuke-chemical hybrid would enable a much faster transit time to Mars vs. a chemical rocket.





It will be interesting to see if/how this program advances.
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8:05a, 1/29/23
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Wow. 250 metric tones in one launch is like, a lot.





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In reply to Faustus • 7:14p, 1/29/23
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It's hard to imagine how poorly an award winning bartender must have been tipped in your area to opt for an hourly wage in a commissary.


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5:25a, 1/31/23
Wow!



https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-light-years-away

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A new video shared on YouTube is one of the most amazing things we've ever seen in planetary science.

The video shows four dots of light moving in partial concentric circles around a black disk at their center. What you're actually looking at is a planetary system.

The four dots are exoplanets, with the black disk obscuring their star, 133.3 light-years away from Earth. The partial circles are their orbital motions, a time-lapse compiled from 12 years of observations.
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In reply to will25u • 6:03a, 1/31/23
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Pretty cool. Also, JWST finds building blocks of life 'out there.' First commercial asteroid mining/proof of concept type of mission is about to launch.

Speculation is for the 3rd and 7th as target dates right now for 33-engine static fire. Progress getting S24 ready to be set atop a final time, afterward.

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In reply to will25u • 8:28a, 1/31/23
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Wow!



https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-light-years-away

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A new video shared on YouTube is one of the most amazing things we've ever seen in planetary science.

The video shows four dots of light moving in partial concentric circles around a black disk at their center. What you're actually looking at is a planetary system.

The four dots are exoplanets, with the black disk obscuring their star, 133.3 light-years away from Earth. The partial circles are their orbital motions, a time-lapse compiled from 12 years of observations.


That's awesome!
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9:22a, 2/1/23
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Coworker told me to keep my eyes on Boca Chica the week of Feb 19th. Assuming the hot fires go well.
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In reply to will25u • 11:18a, 2/1/23
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will25u said:
Wow!



https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-light-years-away

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A new video shared on YouTube is one of the most amazing things we've ever seen in planetary science.

The video shows four dots of light moving in partial concentric circles around a black disk at their center. What you're actually looking at is a planetary system.

The four dots are exoplanets, with the black disk obscuring their star, 133.3 light-years away from Earth. The partial circles are their orbital motions, a time-lapse compiled from 12 years of observations.

I would think those planets are very big and very hot when compared to a scale model of the Sun and Earth.

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In reply to lb3 • 12:08p, 2/1/23
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Coworker told me to keep my eyes on Boca Chica the week of Feb 19th. Assuming the hot fires go well.

Seems optimistic. Wouldn't it take more time to do engine inspections? Repave the concrete under the OLM?
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In reply to rynning • 12:19p, 2/1/23
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Proto planets more than solid planets, really, but still pretty cool (or hot, depending how you look at it I guess). It's not actually visible light displayed, but light data collected over 12 years and digitally refined/smoothed out to show some neat conception of what it would look like.
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5:42a, 2/2/23
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Tory Bruno, despite being the CEO of ULA, is a very good follow on social media and has an excellent piece out at the following link discussing nuclear thermal propulsion and why it is 'of interest' right now regarding Mars.

https://medium.com/@ToryBrunoULA/why-is-everyone-talking-about-nuclear-propulsion-41121eac78e


Also, Eric Ralph at teslarati has a nice piece discussing expendable starship stuff/the new 250T projected limit for a fully expended upper stage.


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SINGLE-USE STARSHIPS
In early 2023, SpaceX updated the Starship section of its website, revealing that an expendable version of the rocket will be able to launch up to 250 metric tons (~550,000 lbs) to low Earth orbit in a single launch. Saturn V, the next most capable expendable rocket, could launch up to 118 tons (~260,000 lbs) to LEO and cost $1-2 billion per launch. SpaceX publicly advertising the expendable performance of Starship unsurprisingly confirms that the company is considering all of the capabilities its new launch system will offer.
And Starship's expendable capabilities are significant. Constructed piece by piece over dozens of launches, the International Space Station weighs about 420 tons (~925,000 lbs). Two expendable Starships could launch more usable mass to LEO truly revolutionary if SpaceX can make Starship launches frequent and routine.


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In reply to nortex97 • 5:45a, 2/2/23
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I've speculated for a while on that, especially given the volume of the things payload section
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5:02a, 2/3/23
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Rolls Royce has shown off an image/design they've created for a micro nuclear reactor to generate (electrical) power in space. RR is one of the top 5 (western) nuclear companies for reactors on a terrestrial basis, so this is not too surprising, in a UK Space agency contract from 2021. It would be interesting if they do wind up bidding/getting selected as a partner in a nasa contract as well.



The water deluge stuff should be showing up in Texas today, I believe.





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7:12a, 2/3/23
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In reply to nortex97 • 9:35a, 2/3/23
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9:42a, 2/3/23
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It's like every image from JWST is the equivalent of the Hubble DSF. Except fuller.
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10:19a, 2/3/23
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That one galaxy LEDA 2046648, is (SEEMS?) MASSIVE - I assume the bright balls you can see are all suns... talk about a bright galaxy.

Also, how close is the closest star in the MW Galaxy in that picture?
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3:00p, 2/3/23
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5:20p, 2/3/23
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No, I don't care what CNN or MSNBC said this time
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In reply to TexAgs91 • 5:25p, 2/3/23
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LOL, no. Starship 2.0 though, might be interesting some day. 18 meters.

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5:35a, 2/5/23
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Great video/info on stoke space.
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5:55p, 2/5/23
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In reply to PJYoung • 6:33p, 2/5/23
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Kinda makes me think they may be closer on the deluge than it appears
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1:40p, 2/6/23
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Happy 5-year anniversary to Falcon Heavy!

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5:15p, 2/6/23
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Thursday for the Super Heavy's 33 engine live fire?
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