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Don't Make a Wish on this Shooting Star

NASA Rocket may be visible between 8:30 and 11:30 this evening.

If you see a shooting star tonight, chances are it may be an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The rocket may be visible by residents in the Eastern United States as a bright light heading to the southeast from the mid-Atlantic coast between 8:28 and 11:38 tonight, Tuesday, June 28.

For more information, visit the NASA Wallops site.

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The launch will carry the Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space Office’s ORS-1 satellite. ORS-1 is the Operationally Responsive Space Office’s first operational satellite. 


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