NASA rocket launch will be seen from New York: how to watch it

Looking for a fun weekend activity? Something unique awaits New Yorkers on May 15, writes Daily voice.

At 20:10 pm local time, NASA plans to launch a rocket from Wallops Base in eastern Virginia, and it will be clearly visible from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Look into the sky and you can see a fast moving object with a trail of green-purple smoke and steam.

NASA has postponed the launch six times due to bad weather, in particular due to strong winds. Therefore, there is a possibility that the launch will be postponed again. You can follow the development of events here.

According to NASA, binoculars and telescopes will make the spectacle even brighter, but even without them, you can see the rocket. If the sky is clear, the rocket and its vapor trail will be easy to see with the naked eye.

The rocket will be visible from South Jersey 10 seconds after launch, in Central Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and New York City 10-30 seconds after launch, and in the far north of New Jersey, most of Pennsylvania and most of New York State - 30-60 seconds after starting.

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"To most people, the rocket will look like a small dot moving rapidly across the sky, like the International Space Station passing by, but much faster," NASA said on the Wallops Flight Facility Twitter page.

The ministry's mission, called KiNet-X, is aimed at studying "the transfer of energy between different regions of space that are linked by a magnetic field."

If you do not have a vantage point to see the rocket launch, it can be watched in NASA video broadcasts.