A SpaceX rocket carrying Starlink satellites is scheduled to lift off from the California coast Tuesday night.
falcon 9 rocket launch window It begins at 6:13 p.m. at Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Santa Barbara. This rocket will carry 21 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit.
If needed, an additional launch window will open on Wednesday at 5:51 p.m. After separation, the first stage booster will land on the unmanned ship “Of Course I Still Love You” in the Pacific Ocean.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX completed 96 successful missions with its Falcon rocket in 2023, surpassing its previous annual record of 61 orbital launches in 2022.
Rockets and their exhaust plumes sometimes Visible hundreds of miles away If the sky is clear, you can see it towering along the coast. Launches just after sunset and before sunrise typically offer the best views as the rocket reflects the sun’s rays against a dark sky.
A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket soars like a candle over downtown Los Angeles on Friday, December 8, 2023.
In Los Angeles, sunset is scheduled for Tuesday at 4:55 p.m. A cold storm is moving towards Southern California on Tuesday, bringing a chance of rain and snow late in the evening.
SpaceX has a constellation of Starlink satellites that orbit Earth about 340 miles above the Earth and are launched into space by the company’s rockets. The Starlink network is designed to provide high-speed internet anywhere in the world.
If the lighting conditions are good, you can see the satellites parading across the night sky on a train. The satellite can be seen in the first few minutes after sunset and sometimes before sunrise when the sun is below the horizon, but the satellite is high enough to reflect direct sunlight.
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