New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
State residents will have 2nd chance to see rocket launch
The launch will take place on the same day as Daylight Savings.
Connecticut residents will be able to view a rocket launch on Nov. 6. But only if they wake up before sunrise.
NASA plans to launch its Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket that Sunday at 5:50 a.m. from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, located on the Eastern shore of Virginia.
If weather permits, it will be visible from parts of South Carolina up through Massachusetts and southern New York and as far west as parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, according to NASA’s Twitter.
Residents living in the western and southern Connecticut regions will be able to view the rocket 120 to 150 seconds after takeoff, according to map created by NASA. For residents of the state’s northern and eastern areas, it will be visible 150 to 180 seconds after the launch.
The launch will take place on the same day as Daylight Savings, when residents must turn their clocks back one hour, so a NASA spokesperson advised residents to change their clocks before going to sleep the night of Nov. 5.
Northrop Grumman, formerly Orbital ATK, delivers supplies, equipment and science investigations to the International Space Station. The company and SpaceX have been resupplying the International Space Station with cargo since 2013, nearly two years after the Space Shuttle Program ended, according to NASA’s website. The November launch will be Northrop Grumman’s 18th commercial resupply services mission for NASA.
The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops Island, VA will be open for this launch and live coverage of the mission will air on NASA TV at 5:30 a.m. EST.http:// www.nasa.gov/nasatv
This isn’t Connecticut’s first chance to see a rocket in the sky.
Several weeks ago people reported seeing a bright light racing across the sky, which turned out to be a SpaceX rocket carrying satellites. That one was launched in Florida.