The Night Sky

Not looking good yet!!!

Too cloudy

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SpaceX is launching up the East Coast tomorrow, probably will be visible to the East/Southeast at around 5:20am if the launch goes off as scheduled.

Now that was f'in cool. At first I saw a faint fantail due east, then it became much clearer as it moved to the north. Then the engine pinpoint was clearly visible and the big tail...glad I set an alarm.

Now that was f'in cool. At first I saw a faint fantail due east, then it became much clearer as it moved to the north. Then the engine pinpoint was clearly visible and the big tail...glad I set an alarm.

Damn, I just missed it

Rocket Lab preparing to launch a hypersonic missle for the DOD out of NASA's Wallops Island Launch Facility 25 mile north & east of me.

Now standing at T minus 5 minutes - looking for a decrease in wind

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live coverage at the bottom of the page

Damn, I just missed it

There's another one Sunday - not crewed though.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the Starlink Group 10-41 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 7:07 PM EST. The rocket will travel northeast, offering potential visibility for the East Coast from Florida up to Maine, with the launch window extending to 11:07 PM EST.
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[][I]Launch Time: Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 7:07 PM EST.*[/I]
[][I]Location: Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL.*[/I]
[][I]Visibility: The rocket will travel northeast along the coast. It may be visible 3–5 minutes after liftoff in FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE, NJ, CT, RI, MA, and eastern parts of PA, NY, and ME.*[/I]
[][I]Viewing Tips: Look toward the East/Southeast sky shortly after 7:07 PM.*[/I]
[][I]Backup: A four-hour window exists until 11:07 PM EST in case of delays. *[/I]
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Holding @ T minus 2:55

They're waiting for wind speeds to drop. When they launch they generally go pretty much right over my house makiing the launch easily visible.

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T minus 20 & counting.........

T minus 1 minute

That was great. Saw it pass by from my front porch. Fastest here from there that I've seen.

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Nice job RKLB. Let's see the Market's reaction to the launch on MOnday.

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“That’s Not A Knife” lifted off on February 27 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern (February 28, 00:00 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 within the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia – the second successful launch of a hypersonic test mission for the DIU in three months and 7th HASTE launch overall. The mission deployed DART AE, a scramjet-powered aircraft developed by Australian aerospace engineering firm Hypersonix, into a suborbital hypersonic flight environment at several times the speed of sound
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several times the speed of sound - no wonder it got overhead faster then any other launch I've witnessed..

All in all - a good buy @ $4.56 a share in July 2024.
Last close?
$69.10

8-)

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