Each evening, since January 26th, we've sat bundled up on deck as the horizon all round turns the beautiful hues of pink and mauve, awaiting a launch from Cape Canaveral.
On Monday, January 31st we were rewarded with a perfect view to the launch of a space X Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. We read that it was carrying a CSG 2 radar surveillance satellite for the Italian Space Agency. It was originally scheduled to launch on Thursday, January 27th but that launch was "scrubbed".
It has been scheduled to launch (between 6:11 p.m. and 6:22 p.m.) each night since then. After being "scrubbed" for the past 4 nights we were thrilled to see it finally get in the air.
It was amazing to watch it go up and then see the rocket drop away, fire it's boosters to slow itself down and return itself to the launch platform while the satellite sped away.
Tomorrow another Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch carrying 49 Starlink Internet Satellites.
We'll keep our eyes to the sky.
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