{"id":174470,"date":"2026-03-02T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:28:08","slug":"spacex-rocket-launching-from-florida-will-be-visible-in-ct-on-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174470\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket launching from Florida will be visible in CT on Sunday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to launch from Florida on Sunday night, with its flight path expected to be visible in the skies over Connecticut shortly after launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Space Exploration Technologies Corp.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Space Exploration Technologies Corp.<\/a>, more commonly known as SpaceX, its Falcon 9 rocket will launch at about 10 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SpaceX, one of billionaire Elon Musk&#8217;s companies, said the rocket launch will bring 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It will be the 26th flight for the first-stage booster supporting that mission, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean,&#8221; the company says on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a social media post by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1GhcmZ5uYb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:meteorologist Kevin Arnone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">meteorologist Kevin Arnone<\/a>, the rocket should be visible in Connecticut&#8217;s southeastern sky four to eight minutes after it launches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Because of the timing and trajectory of the launch, the bright plume of the rocket&#8217;s exhaust should be visible from the Eastern United States, including Connecticut,&#8221; said Arnone, who studied meteorology at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, according to his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctinsider.com\/news\/article\/ct-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-21949351.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SpaceX rocket launching from Florida will be visible in CT on Sunday night;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SpaceX rocket launching from Florida will be visible in CT on Sunday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to launch from Florida on Sunday night, with its flight path expected to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1767,6940,26630,74354,6941,28,30,29,6498,31737,7043,82702],"class_list":{"0":"post-174470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-cape-canaveral","9":"tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","10":"tag-connecticut","11":"tag-dragon-spacecraft","12":"tag-falcon-9-rocket","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-headlines","15":"tag-florida-news","16":"tag-rocket-launch","17":"tag-space-force","18":"tag-spacex-rocket","19":"tag-western-connecticut-state-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}