Florida: Rocket Launch this Week
October 20, 2018 12 Comments
Long Exposure of Night Launch in Florida
We watched a beautiful launch from Cape Canaveral here on the Space Coast of Florida at 12:15 am on Wednesday morning (October 17, 2018). It was a warm starry night as the ULA Atlas V rocket soared across the sky. The advanced communications satellite successfully reached orbit about 3.5 hours later.
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I’m always up after midnight, but of course there was a night launch the one day I went to bed early.
Figures, right? There are more night launches coming up! You can check out the schedule at: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Wow! Super! Did you hear its sound?
Oh yes! We live 45 miles south and it takes a few minutes for the sound to reach us. But on warm humid nights you can hear the launch rumble quite well!
What’s it like? A fighter jet?
If you could get close enough it would be, but it is something more like continuous thunder. Years ago when the space shuttle was still flying and there weren’t so many restrictions, we stood in a park near the end of the shuttle runway when it landed. That WAS like a fighter jet going over!
Cool. Thank you Pam.
Stunning capture, Pam! I bet the noise was awesome too!
It was amazing!
Gorgeous picture! I am so jealous because I took my son to Florida many, many years ago. We drove to watch a launch and it got down to 10 seconds and they cancelled it!!!!! Never had the opportunity again.😔
Well plan a trip back when the ultra-large rocket goes up within the next 2 years. It will be as large as the Saturn moon rockets were! I know what you mean about the countdown. One time the engines fired at about 5 seconds then shut down. Sigh.
It would be a once in a lifetime event! I hope you get to see it!