I was able to watch it from my patio window – I was impressed at how visible it
was, I could see the staging and the decent of the booster. The conditions
were perfect, clear crisp dark sky.
Very cool! Almost like being in Gattaca. J *For those who don’t know,
Gattaca was a space port and the film was shot here in San Rafael, they showed
rockets launching from various Marin locations. One shot looked like it was
launched from Lucas Valley. J
From: aeropac-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aeropac-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Kevin McGrath (Redacted sender "kj_mcgrath" for DMARC)
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 6:42 AM
To: Peter Hackett; aeropac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AeroPAC Chat] Re: spaceX Falcon 9 PAZ
Up early and watched it here in the Santa Cruz Mountains from my deck. Low
clouds obscured most of the sky to the southeast over Monterey bay, but I
managed to see Falcon 9 rising through clouds with a brilliant exhaust trail
glowing in the sunlight at altitude. Very Cool! Lost it in the clouds before
MECO.
Kevin.
On Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 6:24:31 AM PST, Peter Hackett
<peter.hackett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SpaceX is now targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the PAZ satellite to low-Earth
orbit on
Thursday, February 22 from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg
Air Force Base, California.
The Feb. 21st attempt was scrubbed due to strong upper level winds.
The instantaneous launch opportunity is at 6:17 a.m. PST, or 14:17 UTC. The
satellite will be deployed
approximately eleven minutes after launch. llite will be deployed
approximately eleven minutes after launch
I think the following are better live sources than the space.com link Ken
provided (based on
watching all of them this morning):
Web Sites with Countdown Status and Webcasts:
www.spaceflightnow.com/2018/02 /16/falcon-9-paz-mission-statu s-center/
<http://www.spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/16/falcon-9-paz-mission-status-center/>
www.spacex.com
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Peter Hackett <peter.hackett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Falcon 9 Paz launch delayed
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a
PAZ payload from Space Launch Complex-4, is delayed to allow for additional
time to perform final checkouts of the upgraded fairing. The Falcon 9 and
payload remain healthy.
The launch is rescheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 6:17 a.m. PST.
Peter "Bummer. I was planning to drive down to watch from Santa Ynez Peak"
Hackett
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:15 AM, Ken Biba <kenbiba@xxxxxx> wrote:
And for those of us with just an Internet window.
https://www.space.com/39733-sp acex-launching-internet-satell ;
ites-used-rocket-watch-live. html
<https://www.space.com/39733-spacex-launching-internet-satellites-used-rocket-watch-live.html>
Payload includes first two SpaceX communications satellites of a planned 12,000
satellite constellation!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik i/SpaceX_satellite_constellati on ;
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_constellation>
K
Ken Biba
Novarum, Inc.
415-577-5496
On Feb 16, 2018, at 5:51 PM, Tony Alcocer (Redacted sender "tfish38" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks for the heads up!
Tony
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From: William Walby <wfwalby@xxxxxxxxx>
To: aeropac <aeropac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 7:24 am
Subject: [AeroPAC Chat] Re: spaceX Falcon 9 PAZ
Launch has slipped to Sunday
W2
On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:19 PM, Tony Alcocer (Redacted sender "tfish38" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter, Thanks for the reply. I might have figured it out. I plotted the
bearings from 3 viewing points and then drew a line, from my house to where
they came together. Looks like I need to be looking at a bearing of 157 degrees.
<Falcon.jpg>
Tony
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From: Peter Hackett <peter.hackett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx u
<mailto:peter.hackett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >
To: aeropac <aeropac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Feb 15, 2018 8:27 pm
Subject: [AeroPAC Chat] Re: spaceX Falcon 9 PAZ
My take on the diagram is that (from Castle Rock S.P. (west of San Jose)) you
should look
South South/East (~ 1/2 between South and South/East) and only a few degrees
(5-10) above the
horizon.
I have only a little intuition about how that would change from somewhere
closer to Santa Rosa. My
*guess* is that it will be visible less time and closer still to the horizon.
The higher you are,
the better.
I looked at the other diagrams (specifically San Diego) it looks like it's
going south (as I would expect
from a Vandenburg launch (South over the ocean)) for a polar orbit.
Anyone smarter/more knowledgeable than me, please correct me if I'm off in any
way big or small.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Tony Alcocer <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Falcon 9 PAZ is scheduled to launch Saturday morning 6:14 pst from Vandenburg
AFB. It's suppose to be a real show once it its the sunlight about 2 min into
the flight. This map https://www.flickr.com/pho tos/xb70man/40204828662/in/alb ;
um-72157692592142634/
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/xb70man/40204828662/in/album-72157692592142634/>
is suppose to help look for it. I'm saying suppose because I have no clue
which direction to look other then upish and southish.
I will be up, outside and looking for it.
Tony
