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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAtlas V launching tonight @ 11:05 pm EST
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtvCurrently 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)
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)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)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):
That's one hell of a shot.
kdmorris
(5,649 posts)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.
Calista241
(5,584 posts)kdmorris
(5,649 posts)So watching it on NASA TV
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)even clear enough to see the separation.
Can't wait for the Falcon Heavy this spring! Going to Canaveral for that one if possible.
kdmorris
(5,649 posts)I'm way to the south - in South Florida - near Ft. Lauderdale
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)I was right near Melbourne, south of the launch complex when it went up.
Pretty cool!