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SpaceX · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A Falcon 9 lifts off from Vandenberg with the GRACE Follow-On spacecraft.
Photo by Bill Ingalls, NASA. Public domain. Source
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25

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What this is

SpaceX is sending a cargo ship up on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA. It is a delivery run for people already in space: food, experiments, and spare parts.

SpaceX is flying a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA. Mission: Cygnus CRS-2 NG-25. This is the 25th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 24th flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Planned orbit: . Booster Unknown F9. Status: . Current confirmed by official or reliable sources.

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From here

Too far to see

You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 1,578 miles east. 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.

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Who is on this flight

Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.

Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.

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Only what the listing says

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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.