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Hi all, my team Backmarker Racing is looking for new members from around the Americas / Oceania timezones to round out our driver availability in the big endurance events. Check the post in the iRacing forums for more info:

https://forums.iracing.com/discussion/71883/join-backmarker-racing-for-the-2025-season-and-beyond

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-12-17, 13:19 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-12-17, 05:19 (PST) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | 1063-22 | | Landing | Of Course I Still Love You | | Payload | NROL-149 | | Customer | US National Reconnaissance Office | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to desired orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbXgzT_hu4 | | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwZT6K_ZanM | | NASASpaceflight | none | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CskDj_zaa3g | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1869006526578671981 | | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsFoptpscX0 |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 44th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 3 days, 11:24:20 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 60th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 115th landing on OCISLY

☑️ 387th Falcon family booster landing, 401st Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 126th Falcon 9 mission this year, 412th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 128th SpaceX mission of 2024, 428th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 132nd SpaceX launch this year, 444th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• SpaceX mission page
• NextSpaceflight mission page

Sixth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.

On Nov. 15, U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan of the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Labor Department had exceeded its authority in issuing the overtime rule, finding fault with the new salary threshold, which he said was too high, and with the automatic updating.

Given the millions of workers and the large variety of employers who would be impacted by the rule, he wrote that it would be impractical, if not impossible to tailor it in a way that would be acceptable. So he tossed the rule in its entirety. SpaceX and Amazon are among the companies that have filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board. Business Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board

A week later, Ohio State delivered the bad news. In emails sent late on a Friday afternoon, the 306 employees who had just gotten raises were informed that "as a result of the reversal in the law, you will no longer receive an increase in your base pay."

Artist: Boushi-Ya | pixiv | danbooru

Another inside look video with many inspiring insights

Since 2025 is getting closer I thought it might be a good opportunity to change the banner and the icon.

Here is a quick mock-up to promote something a tad less... serious.

There are two versions of the banner, one with and one without our dear Lemmy. And two versions of the community icon too, one with and one without the name in their default square shape and as a circular icon too, so you can get a better idea what they would look like.

What do you think? Is there one you prefer? Do they both suck, and the banners too?

So long as you’re healthy, he told me, it is in your insurer’s best interest to keep you happy by delivering on small claims. It’s only when it looks as though you’re going to cost them lots of money that the denials start coming—and maybe by then you’re too sick to fight. This interview was edited for length and clarity.

Republican senator Lindsey Graham says Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host who Donald Trump nominated to lead the defense department, told him that he has allowed a woman who accused him of sexual assault to speak publicly.

While police brought no charges over the alleged assault, Hegseth reportedly paid the accuser a settlement, in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure agreement about the allegation. In a Sunday interview with NBC News, Graham said that Hegseth “told me he would release her from that agreement”.

Graham, who had expressed some concerns about Hegseth as the sexual assault allegations and reports of other bad behavior came to light, otherwise spoke positively about the defense secretary nominee:

I’m in a good place with Pete unless something I don’t know about comes out. These allegations are disturbing, but they’re anonymous. I asked him point blank, were you drunk in a bar and got up and said, let’s kill all the Muslims. He said, no. There’s one allegation on a police report about sexual assault, that person has the right to come forward to the committee. But about mismanagement of money, about, you know, having a drinking problem and saying inappropriate things, all of these are anonymous allegations.

He’s given me his side of the story. It makes sense to me, I believe him. Unless somebody’s willing to come forward, I think he’s going to get through.