Thanks again to this amazing thing that is the Internet I was able to watch a real-time launch, from different angles including a couple of onboard cameras, of another NASA rocket from across the continent.
This one was an Antares rocket, launched from their facility at Wallops Island, Virginia, delivering the Cygnus spacecraft on a demonstration resupply mission to the International Space Station.
I remember a time when the only way I could have seen any of this was as special effects in a movie. Now all I need is any device with an Internet connection.
Minutes before launch
Minutes before launch
Lift-off
Perfect launch
Onboard camera view of launch
All systems nominal
Astronauts aboard the ISS watch the launch
Nearing the upper atmosphere
Heading toward orbit
Wallops Launch Control Center
Onboard camera view between stages
Shortly before main stage separation
Main stage separation
Main stage separation
Main stage separation
Post-separation telemetry info
Cygnus spacecraft telemtery
Cygnus spacecraft telemtery
Houston’s Mission Control Center takes over the mission
Houston’s Mission Control Center takes over the mission
