If you spent all Saturday waiting to see a NASA rocket streak across the night sky, you’re in for a disappointment.
Poor weather forced NASA to scrub Saturday night’s launch, pushing it back 24 hours because of high winds.
The launch, from Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia, is now scheduled for no earlier than 8:03 p.m. Sunday, with a 40-minute launch window, meaning the rocket could go up a little later than the official time.
The rocket, which is part of a special space experiment, was expected to be visible from many eastern states, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
NASA said the rocket would likely be seen from far southern New Jersey within 10 seconds of the launch, from most areas of New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and New York City from 10 to 30 seconds after launch, and from far northern New Jersey, most of Pennsylvania and most of New York state from 30 to 60 seconds after the launch.
The NASA mission is officially known as KiNet-X and “the goal is to study how energy and momentum is transported between regions of space that are connected magnetically,” according to CBS News in Boston. “This study will help scientists better understand things like Auroras and how they are formed and their movement from place to place.”
Sunday night may not prove to be the best rocket watching weather. The forecast predicts it will be cloudy with showers.
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