Northrop Grumman Space Systems is launching a rocket called Minotaur IV from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. The public listing does not name a cargo yet. This path flies over Earth in the same kind of sunlight every day, which is what picture-taking satellites like.
Northrop Grumman Space Systems is flying a Minotaur IV from Space Launch Complex 8, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA. Mission: EWS OD-1. The Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS) Operational Demonstration-1 (OD-1) is a weather satellite for the United States Space Force. It is a prototype satellite made by General Atomics that will be place in for a three-year demonstration mission of new EO/IR sensor technologies to various US military branches, and to act as a stop-gap for Defense Department needs for weather data. Planned orbit: . Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.
Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.
From here
Too far to see
You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 933 miles west. The broadcast is the view.
That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.
Public places
Viewing spots
Places run by a park or a visitor center near this site. A listing is not a promise you can see the rocket from there.
Jalama Beach County Park
Santa Barbara County park on the coast south of Vandenberg. Day use has a fee.
Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.
Put it on a calendar
So the slip still finds you
A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.
