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Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:38 PM Mar 2016

Atlas V launching tonight @ 11:05 pm EST

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Currently at T minus 4:00 and holding, which means it has been fueled and has successfully gone through it's preflight checks and is ready to go. Weather is perfect with no expected changes.

The clock will restart around 11:01 PM and there is a 30 minute launch window for tonight's launch.


This is a resupply mission for the ISS.
https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/events/2016/march/launch-ula-atlas-v-oa-6-mar.aspx

Clear weather, should be able to catch this one even from the left coast (of FL that is)
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Atlas V launching tonight @ 11:05 pm EST (Original Post) Cassiopeia Mar 2016 OP
Thanks! cheapdate Mar 2016 #1
We have Vandenberg AFB for launches on the west coast upaloopa Mar 2016 #2
I saw a couple of them go up at 6 AM while riding my bike kdmorris Mar 2016 #3
Wow Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #4
That's not mine, but I have several like it. kdmorris Mar 2016 #5
OMG, Aliens. We're all gonna die! Calista241 Mar 2016 #11
Stupid clouds - couldn't see it kdmorris Mar 2016 #6
Caught it Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #7
You must be closer than I am :) kdmorris Mar 2016 #8
SW FL Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #9
I was driving north on 95 when it went off A HERETIC I AM Mar 2016 #10
Long exposure shot of Atlas rocket launch .. MinM Mar 2016 #12
Thanks Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #13
Cool pic! PersonNumber503602 Mar 2016 #14

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
2. We have Vandenberg AFB for launches on the west coast
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:41 PM
Mar 2016

It use to be my next door neighbor. I could watch a launch from the launch pad from my sidewalk. But we moved about 15 miles away

kdmorris

(5,649 posts)
3. I saw a couple of them go up at 6 AM while riding my bike
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:43 PM
Mar 2016

Even from this far south, the view was AMAZING (though many of my neighbors apparently thought we were having an alien invasion LMAO)

This was from November, 2015 (from the local10 news, not one of mine):

kdmorris

(5,649 posts)
5. That's not mine, but I have several like it.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:58 PM
Mar 2016

That one I actually had no idea what it was at the time so I stopped riding and filmed it. It was incredible! When I got home I found it was an Atlas rocket that went up to take up a Navy satellite. Another one went up a couple of weeks later and did the same thing.

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
7. Caught it
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:13 PM
Mar 2016

even clear enough to see the separation.

Can't wait for the Falcon Heavy this spring! Going to Canaveral for that one if possible.

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
9. SW FL
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:52 PM
Mar 2016

North of Fort Myers. It was perfectly clear though, not even a bit of haze.

It's a good angle, we get to see the back of the booster as it starts the roll, although I was able to see it as soon as it cleared the tree line.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,317 posts)
10. I was driving north on 95 when it went off
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:00 AM
Mar 2016

I was right near Melbourne, south of the launch complex when it went up.

Pretty cool!

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