Walking back to my bike, a brilliant trail advancing across the sky...must be a Vandenberg launch.
Walking back to my bike, a brilliant trail advancing across the sky...must be a Vandenberg launch.
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Yeppers. A 'Minotaur rocket with the U.S. military's STP-R1 "Streak" technology demonstration satellite' according to the Spaceflight Now website.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/stpr1/status.html
I think it was 8 years ago that I was driving south on Highway 101 near Vandenberg when they launched something in a polar orbit. The atmosphere was cold enough to form a stream of ice crystals along the exhaust stream. Quite spectacular.
Pictures in Justin Ray's spaceflightnow.com
sign up for the Vandenberg launch alert email, there are launches quite frequently that are visible from most parts of So and Central CA and sometimes even as far as AZ.
http://www.spacearchive.info/
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