Atlas V Launch - 1:02pm EST

[W4GPL]

Background: http://www.space.com/19709-nasa-landsat-satellite-launch-today.html

Video Stream: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[N2NH]

Background: http://www.space.com/19709-nasa-landsat-satellite-launch-today.html

Video Stream: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Crap! I finally see a thread on this before the launch and it is totally overcast for hundreds of miles around.

[W4GPL]

I have no idea if anyone ever cares about these launches.. but I do.. so I try to post them.

[WA4TM]

Well, there she goes!!!!!..





Correction. That mother is out of here!:evil:

[N2NH]

I have no idea if anyone ever cares about these launches.. but I do.. so I try to post them.

I caught the shuttle in orbit a few times when I was on Long Island and they said it'd be overhead. I also saw a launch in the 70s when I was out on Long Island. Last time was in Kissimmee, where I caught a shuttle launch from 90 miles away. If you listened, you could even hear it.

Ah, I see there's a slightly bigger problem. She's being launched from the West and to the SSW. Looks like a polar orbit.

[KC2UGV]

I have no idea if anyone ever cares about these launches.. but I do.. so I try to post them.

Yep, I do. Watch(ed/ing) this one now.

[NA4BH]

Late for the show, but I still like this stuff. Thanks

[NQ6U]

Crap! I finally see a thread on this before the launch and it is totally overcast for hundreds of miles around.

It launched from Vandenberg AFB so you wouldn't have seen much anyway. Went out to see if I could see anything since it appeared from the on-board video that the rocket went in this general direction but it was so high up by the time it got here that I saw nothing.

As much as I dislike having to work the night shift, it's not completely without compensating benefits like this. Sure wish I'd had an opportunity to be at Cape Canaveral to watch one of those huge Saturn V rockets go off, though. That really must have been something to see.

[W4GPL]

Having grown up near the space coast in FL, I can tell you.. unless you're < 20 miles away, it's better on TV. :)

[K7SGJ]

The only thing I've ever seen from out here, is some cool early morning sunlight reflections off the rocket vapor trails from launches from White Sands; and of course the alien ships and stuff.

[ka4dpo]

I lived in Melbourne Florida in the 70's and 80's so got used to seeing launches from just a few miles. The Shuuttle was fun to watch and on a clear day you could see the boosters separate and tumble on their way down.

[kb2vxa]

More spectacular were the rockets launched from Wallops Island, VA to study upper air currents. The fluorescent dyes released created spectacular multicolored glowing trails across the sky shortly after nightfall because they were above Earth's shadow.