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Weather: Nice temp (70s), clear, but windy upper level.


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Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
1027 AM PST Thu Dec 4 2025

.SYNOPSIS...04/227 AM.

A moderate Santa Ana wind event will bring gusty northeast winds
to portions of southern California today. Cold conditions will
bring freezing conditions to some areas each morning today and Friday.
A significant warming trend will begin this weekend and peak next
Tuesday and Wednesday.

&&

.SHORT TERM (TDY-SAT)...04/853 AM.

***UPDATE***

The Santa Ana Winds have been performing better this morning
compared to yesterday as expected. Advisory level wind gusts have
been observed across typically windy areas this morning, with the
Santa Susanas and Western San Gabriels winning this event. A
couple gusts even reached 60 mph in these areas. Winds will
strengthen and expand especially across coastal and valley areas
this morning, then winds are on track to decrease by this
afternoon.

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https://twitter.com/BoosterTracker/status/1996677725428621467

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Starlink Group 11-25 will mark SpaceX's 600th launch and fastest turnaround of B1097 to date at 17 days, 15 hours, 20 minutes, and 38 seconds.
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Transporter Erector retraction started.
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Launch


https://twitter.com/ENNEPS/status/1996681794104730004

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SpaceX has launched the Starlink Group 11- mission, aboard the Falcon 9 B1097-4 from SLC-4E at the Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), in California, sending 28 Starlink v2 Mini satellites, into Low Earth Orbit.
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Landing Burn and Landing

https://twitter.com/ENNEPS/status/1996683784088179176

https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1996683869786198491

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F9/Starlink 11-25: 1st stage booster B1097 completed its fourth trip out of the lower atmosphere and back with a successful landing on a SpaceX droneship; this was the 446th booster recovery at sea and SpaceX'ss 544th overall
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SECO,
Parking Orbit insertion callout,
End broadcast

https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1996684008844152856

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William Harwood
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F9/Starlink 11-25: 2nd stage engine shutdown confirmed; the vehicle will now coast for 45 minutes until a 1-second burn at 4:36pm EST (2136 UTC) to reach the planned payload deploy orbit; Starlink release expected at 4:43pm EST (2143 UTC)
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https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1996684008844152856

William Harwood
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F9/Starlink 11-25: 2nd stage engine shutdown confirmed; the vehicle will now coast for 45 minutes until a 1-second burn at 4:36pm EST (2136 UTC) to reach the planned payload deploy orbit; Starlink release expected at 4:43pm EST (2143 UTC)
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