u/otherotherhand

Y0240111 Just finished its flight, apparently landing in beautiful downtown Alamo. Launched right around 6 AM Pacific. If the Groomers keep to their newish pattern, there will be a second sonde launch between 9 and 10 AM Pacific this morning. Or not...

https://sondehub.org/Y0240111

Edit: Welp, the bastards made a fool of me once again. They decided to launch their second sonde, Y0240012, around 8:30 AM. I choose to blame it on the upcoming holiday weekend. Yep, that's it.

Just happened to notice it right as it launched real close to 6:00AM Pacific time. Every time I make a prediction I look like an idiot, but if this follows the pattern that's been going down for 5-6 AM launches, there should be a second one this morning circa 10 AM Pacific.

https://sondehub.org/Y0240008

Groom will now prove me wrong.

Edit: Got the launch time wrong. I wasn't awake. Fixed.

https://sondehub.org/Y0240421

Never seen a Y series before, anywhere. Seeing it here for the first time at Groom. Who knows what it means.

The X series first surfaced in the wild a couple of years ago, but it took Groom a while to get with that program. It's just a matter of time before a Z series shows up.

Edit to add: If anyone can get out there with a receiver, and it's still transmitting, it would be a stupidly easy recovery. My, uh private info, tracked it down to 3469 meters at 37.38583, -115.41785 should that info be useful to anyone.