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22 January 2023 Michael Riffle

First Radiosonde Recovery of 2023

So far this year there have only been three radiosondes that have landed within twenty

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15 January 2023 Michael Riffle

USSF-67 Falcon Heavy Launch

This evening at 5:56pm, right at local sunset, SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket from

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11 January 2023 Michael Riffle

CRS-26 Reentry

On 26 November 2022 SpaceX launched a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space

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10 January 2023 Michael Riffle

Hercs & Ospreys

This morning I glanced at the ADSBExchange map and noticed a couple aircraft tracking toward

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8 December 2022 Michael Riffle

Moon-Mars Conjunction

Last night there was a very close conjunction of the Moon and Mars. In astronomy

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6 November 2022 Michael Riffle

Faaaaaat Albert

Late this afternoon the U.S. Navy Blue Angels support aircraft, a C-130 known as Fat

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13 October 2022 Michael Riffle

Galaxies In The Air

Occasionally the largest aircraft in the USAF, the C-5 Galaxy, makes an appearance in this

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10 October 2022 Michael Riffle

Did You Wave at the ISS Today?

Thanks to this Tweet from ISS Above we have this video from the International Space

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3 October 2022 Michael Riffle

The Flight of HBAL608

On 14 May 2021 I captured some photos of a high altitude balloon floating above

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24 September 2022 Michael Riffle

Telescopic View of a Launch

Back in February I captured a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch at sunset which I posted

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