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I got to see a daytime rocket launch just about a half hour ago. I've only seen one other daylight launch. The contrail on that other one was much cooler, though. I think it was a Delta 4 heavy or something with some big SRBs. Normally I watch the nightime ones. Those you can see for a lot longer. It is interesting to see the daytime ones, though. You can get a better feel for where they launch from and I could tell the color of the exhaust was orange since my color vision is better during the day.
They launch from Vandenberg, the missile place you know. (Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World reference).
I have been pretty lucky with clear weather for the launches. The good thing is Vandenberg is so close that they have pretty much the same weather as we do here, so they tend to scrub the mission until good weather comes in.
This launch was a rare retrograde orbit for a recon satellite. That means it has to launch 2,000mph faster to make up for orbiting the "wrong" direction.
My Dad sends me the updates from the SkyLights email list.
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Last edited by Flieger; 04-03-2012 at 05:16 PM..
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