[Scan-DC] Rocket Launch Saturday visible in DC area

[Howard W3CQH]

Approximately what time?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Leyden" <andrew at leyden.com>
To: "Scan-dc" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 1:12 PM
Subject: [Scan-DC] Rocket Launch Saturday visible in DC area


Wallops Island has a rather large sounding rocket going up Saturday
night (weather permitting, and it hasn't been the last few days which
is why it's been postponed until Saturday).

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/CARE.html

In addition to seeing the rocket trail (which should be SSE of
Washington, DC--look in the direction of Pennsylvania Avenue SE) there
will be an artificially 'enhanced' cloud that might be visible for
sometime after the test.

The Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE) will be conducted by the
Naval Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense Space Test
Program using a NASA four-stage Black Brant XII suborbital sounding
rocket. Using ground based instruments and the STP/NRL STPSat-1
spacecraft, scientists will study an artificial noctilucent cloud
formed by the exhaust particles of the rocket’s fourth stage at about
173 miles altitude.

The rocket flight and the resulting cloud may be seen throughout the
mid-Atlantic region. The artificial noctilucent cloud also may be
visible the following morning just before sunrise.


You can follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NASA_Wallops

But for the countdown I recommend the webcast: 
http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/webcast
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