Watch NASA Rocket Launch Live After It Was Postponed Four Times
On 5/11/21 at 6:39 AM EDT
After four false starts, NASA is again preparing to launch its KiNet-X mission, which is expected to produce a brief light show for millions of people in Bermuda and eastern parts of the U.S.
The space agency s fifth launch attempt has been scheduled for 8:05 p.m. ET on the evening of Tuesday, May 11, weather permitting.
However, since NASA s window is 40 minutes long, the Black Brant XII suborbital rocket that s set to take off from NASA s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia could end up launching as late as 8:45 p.m.
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Could the fifth time be the charm?
It s another attempt for the launch of the Black Brant XII rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Postponed every night since Friday because of concern about upper level wind, NASA said it will give it another try on Tuesday night at 8 p.m. New Jersey 101.5 Chief Meteorologist Dan Zarrow is optimistic the launch really could happen. Tuesday evening s launch window probably presents the best weather conditions so far at Wallops Island. I see mainly clear skies with lighter winds (both at the surface and aloft), Zarrow said.
Our chances of seeing the launch in New Jersey might be a challenge though.
May 11, 2021
BOSTON (
WBZ NewsRadio) After postponing the launch for several days, a NASA suborbital sounding rocket is set to launch Tuesday.
The rocket will launch from NASA s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, but it is expected to be visible to large portion of the east coast including Massachusetts.
A four-stage Black Brant XII rocket is slated to launch at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday.
“The mission, called the KiNETic-scale energy and momentum transport eXperiment, or KiNet-X, is designed to study a very fundamental problem in space plasmas, namely, how are energy and momentum transported between different regions of space that are magnetically connected?” a statement on NASA’s website said.
UPDATE: NASA rocket launch from Wallops Flight Facility canceled again tonight
Updated May 12, 2021;
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, NASA Wallops tweeted. The postponement was due to cloudy skies, the announcement said. Its next earliest launch date will be Wednesday, May 12, at 8:06 p.m., with a 40-minute launch window.
LAUNCH SCRUBBED ❗ Tonight s launch of the KiNET-X sounding rocket has been scrubbed due to cloudy skies in Bermuda and Wallops. The next launch opportunity will be no earlier than May 12, at 8:06 p.m. EDT. Backup days run through May 16. NASA Wallops (@NASA Wallops) May 12, 2021
If the launch of the Black Brant XII sounding rocket finally happens and conditions along the Eastern Seaboard are conducive, the rocket launch could be visible from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.