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After a spectacular failure in 2021 and a few scrubs, culminating an abort after engine ignition, Firefly launched their 'Alpha' rocket into orbit from Vandenberg's SLC-2 launch complex. I was 250miles north west, but I could still see the rocket's exhaust looking a bright red in the night sky.

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