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• Inspiration
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Falcon9 Starlink Tues night launch from Vandenberg
Falcon9 Ovzon Wed night launch from the Cape (great video)
Sunset
Merlin Vacuum engine burning to orbit during sunset pic.twitter.com/QU4Md0SPkq
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 4, 2024
New Year’s Perspective
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Looks like we’ll have to wait for the Nat’l Championship Game
to see Michigan lose (Go Blue!, Mich ’69)
Happy New Year!

This is from a couple’a years ago,
and she was right

Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Final Week of the Year Salvo
SpaceX won’t quite make their goal of 100 Falcon launches in 2023,
but 96(?) is pretty danged close
Thursday Night Twofer from the Cape:
• Falcon Heavy, USSF X-37B Spaceplane
• Falcon9, Starlink
Merry Christmas, Old-School


Okay, it’s 65ºF here in NC,
but you get the idea
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
This week:
Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
Dragon undock from ISS
Firefly Alpha from Vandenberg
Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
Falcon9 SARah from Vandenberg
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Everybody’s launchin’ this week!
(all times Eastern)
Per the Launch Handbook: Scrub, Reschedule, Rinse, Repeat
I expect this-week’s schedules to bounce around like a pool break.
Check back daily for the latest schedule guesses.
• Thu night Electron SARsat from NZ (previous mission had failed)
• Sun night 11pm Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
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• Dec 28 Falcon Heavy, USSF Spaceplane X-37B from the Cape
• Dec 28 Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg
I’ll add the video links when they’re available
You’re Pronounsing it Wrong

NOTE:
That’s Col Douglas Mortimer, best shot in the Carolinas,
not to be confused with DougM, okay shot in NC
