Rocket Launch

[The Kalmyk]

Friday December 9th 6-8pm possibly.


looks like clear skies so good chance you can catch a glance.

Rocket Lab's first electron launch moved to Friday - Shore Daily News

According to a post on the Wallops Flight Facility web site, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility will support the launch of Rocket Lab USA’s first Electron rocket from Virginia at 6 p.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 9. The mission, named “Virginia is for Launch Lovers,” will deploy radio frequency monitoring...

shoredailynews.com

Edit: Almost forgot to include some leisure time for @Patrick

https://www.rocketlabusa.com/assets/Uploads/Payload-User-Guide-LAUNCH-V6.6.pdf

 

[one piece crank]

I’ll definitely look for this one. The SpaceX viewing was amazing.

 

[xc62701]

I was outside looking tonight. Evidently it got postponed until December 13th at the earliest.

UPDATE: Rocket Lab's first Electron launch from Wallops delayed

Rocket Lab's first launch of its Electron rocket from U.S. soil will be from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in December 2022.

www.delmarvanow.com

 

[xc62701]

Now December 15th at the earliest, but with the storm coming I bet that's not happening.

 

[Patrick]

moved to science thread. game on.

Science is looking up

Went to a talk by Arno Penzias back in the late 80s. He was describing the annoying "hum" that his experimental antenna was picking-up. (not really a hum, cause not audible) They thought it may have been caused by birds doing their thing on the antenna. These scientists were applied physics -...

www.mtbnj.com