Eugene Leitl wrote:
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> Has anybody seen the Edwards base launch a couple of minutes ago? The
> sky is covered with beauuutiful stratospheric silver clouds. (I can
> only hope I won't see many such launches in the next half an hour).
>
> Has anybody any idea what that was? Military sat launch, THAAD, whatever?
Hmmmm... I checked the Vandenberg upcoming launches page and te FAA/AST launches page, and didn't find any notices... was the contrail over Edwards, or Vandenberg? I'd have seen it myself, had I gone outside at all today- but in Mojave what ya really notice are the sonic booms. We got four planes at once (eight distinct bangs from nose & tail) on Tuesday...
http://mocc.vafb.af.mil/launchsched.asp
http://ast.faa.gov/launch_info/
-- Doug Jones, Rocket Plumber Xcor Aerospace (We'll have a website up Real Soon Now)