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Live on the US East Coast? Look Up to See a Rocket Launch Saturday Morning By Mike Wall, Space.com S
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | November 10, 2017 03:07pm ET
If you live on or near parts of the U.S. East Coast, you may be able to see a rocket launch Saturday morning (Nov. 11).
An Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the company's uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch toward the International Space Station (ISS) Saturday at 7:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Weather permitting, folks as far north as Connecticut and as far south as South Carolina may be able to spot the arc of fire that the Antares carves into the sky as it climbs, according to visibility maps produced by NASA and Orbital ATK. (You can also watch the liftoff live online here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV.)
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"We'll be flying into the sunrise, so it may make it a little harder to view it far down range," Kurt Eberly, Antares deputy program manager at Orbital ATK, said at a prelaunch news conference today (Nov. 10). "But near range, it should be plenty viewable."
More:
https://www.space.com/38748-rocket-launch-visible-from-us-east-coast-saturday.html?utm_source=notification
