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Watch Live Saturday: NASA to Launch Artificial Cloud Spawning Rocket
SPACE.com ^ | Staff | June 20, 2017 10:00am ET

Posted on 06/20/2017 5:37:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin

NASA will try to launch its artificial cloud-spawning rocket Saturday, June 24, between 9:07 p.m. EDT and 9:22 p.m. EDT (0107-0122 GMT), after a series of delays due to weather. You can watch it here beginning at 8:30 p.m. EDT (0030 GMT). NASA will provide an update on the next launch attempt here.

The rocket will launch to test a canister deployment system designed to eject ampoules containing gas that can create glowing artificial clouds in the night sky. Clear weather is vital for mission scientists in order to record the cloud deployment using ground-based cameras at the launch site - NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, and in Duck, North Carolina.

If you live near the Wallops Island area in Virginia and would like to watch the sounding rocket launch in person, NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center will open to the public at 8 p.m. EDT.

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"The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will open at 8 p.m. on launch day for viewing the flight.

"Live coverage of the mission is scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. on the Wallops Ustream site. Launch updates also are available via the Wallops Facebook and Twitter sites."

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: cloud; nasa; rocket
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1 posted on 06/20/2017 5:37:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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PLEASE launch one over L.A. We need the break from the heat wave.


2 posted on 06/20/2017 5:40:43 PM PDT by Yaelle
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So NASA are going to pollute the atmosphere?


3 posted on 06/20/2017 5:47:36 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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"NASA will try to launch its artificial cloud-spawning rocket Saturday, June 24, between 9:07 p.m. EDT and 9:22 p.m. EDT (0107-0122 GMT), after a series of delays due to weather clouds."
4 posted on 06/20/2017 5:50:23 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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So NASA are going to pollute the atmosphere?

It's okay. They bought plenty of carbon credits with your tax money.

5 posted on 06/20/2017 5:52:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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6 posted on 06/20/2017 5:55:49 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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no way


7 posted on 06/20/2017 5:56:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Yaelle

Not to worry. That ridge of high pressure will move east and off the west coast eventually.

And then, the earthquake.


8 posted on 06/20/2017 5:57:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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sounds like the start of a sci-fi horror movie.


9 posted on 06/20/2017 5:59:59 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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great.
We get artificial clouds and they’re gay
I give up.


10 posted on 06/20/2017 6:02:30 PM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: Redcitizen

Yup.

If you watch real close in the live coverage you’ll see the one scientist who sees how dangerous it is rushing to the launch pad attempting to stop the launch.


11 posted on 06/20/2017 6:08:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I heard many years ago that is one of the main problems with all of the climate modelling, they create clouds or predict cloud coverage.


12 posted on 06/20/2017 6:10:16 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Yaelle

Yeah we got spoiled the last couple of years i think its going to be a long hot summer


13 posted on 06/20/2017 6:31:58 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: BenLurkin

Yelling its a cook book


14 posted on 06/20/2017 6:32:39 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: BenLurkin
no way

You are correct. Those are not artificial clouds in that picture, they are absolutely real.

And so are these.


15 posted on 06/20/2017 6:36:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: blueplum
Artist's depiction of latest NASA Artificial Clouds.


16 posted on 06/20/2017 6:38:32 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: al baby
Yeah we got spoiled the last couple of years i think its going to be a long hot summer

In more ways than one.

17 posted on 06/20/2017 6:40:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BenLurkin

hoping for a clear night, should be interesting to see the glowing exhaust.


18 posted on 06/20/2017 6:44:17 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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19 posted on 06/20/2017 6:44:54 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: BenLurkin

Right now we’re dealing with fires.


20 posted on 06/20/2017 7:21:46 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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