NASA and the U.S. armed forces will launch a file payload of 29 satellites from a Virginia spaceport Tuesday night time (Nov. 19) on a mission that could create a marvelous sight for skywatchers along the U.S. East Coast, weather allowing. The U.S. Air Force launch will ship an Orbital Sciences Minotaur 1 rocket into orbit from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Va., someday all over a two-hour launch window that opens Tuesday night time at 7:30 p.m. EST (0030 Nov. 20 GMT). The hour of darkness launch may remove darkness from the sky for tens of millions of observers along a wide swath of the Eastern Seaboard, and may be seen from simply northeastern Canada and Maine to Florida, and from as far inland as Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky, relying on local weather stipulations, consistent with NASA and Orbital Sciences visibility maps. The U.S. military's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) place of business is sponsoring Tuesday's launch. That You can watch the nighttime launch are living online here, courtesy of NASA, beginning at 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT).
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