After a weather delay, the rocket is now scheduled to lift off Tuesday from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
was rescheduled and is now slated to be launched Tuesday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, officials said. The launch window runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. If the launch doesn’t take place Tuesday there are backup launch days through Dec. 20.
The launch might be visible from New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, most of the east coast and part of the midwest shortly after liftoff. Viewers in North Jersey and Central Jersey would be able to see the 59-foot-tall Electron rocket for 90 seconds to two minutes. Skywatchers in South Jersey would have a 60- to 90-second window to view it.NASA
“With this mission, NASA is helping foster a growing low-Earth space economy and continues Wallops’ 35-year history of support to the commercial launch industry,” NASA said in a statement.
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