{"id":165475,"date":"2026-04-14T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:02:09","slug":"rocket-launched-in-florida-spotted-streaking-across-pa-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165475\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket launched in Florida spotted streaking across Pa. skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt’s definitely *** shooting star of some sort. I got it on video, while I’m videoing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Rocket launched in Florida spotted streaking across Pennsylvania skies<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:39 AM EDT Apr 14, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch early Tuesday morning at Florida’s Cape Canaveral could be seen in Pennsylvania.WGAL viewers shared photos and videos showing the rocket streaking across the sky. The video above was shot in South Mountain, Franklin County. The rocket was carrying 29 Starlink satellites. Another viewer in Adams County, Kyle Benner, also captured video (see below). Benner said the video was recorded in Fairfield, looking to the southeast. About the SpaceX Falcon 9Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket designed and built by SpaceX.It is made for the reliable and safe transport of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.Falcon 9 is the world\u2019s first orbital-class reusable rocket.Its reusability lets SpaceX fly the most expensive parts of the rocket again.This helps reduce the cost of access to space.Falcon 9 by the numbersHEIGHT | 229.6 feetWEIGHT | 1,207,920 poundsDIAMETER | 12 feetPAYLOAD TO LOW-EARTH ORBIT | 50,265 pounds\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket launch early Tuesday morning at Florida’s Cape Canaveral could be seen in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

WGAL viewers shared photos and videos showing the rocket streaking across the sky. The video above was shot in South Mountain, Franklin County. <\/p>\n

The rocket was carrying 29 Starlink satellites. <\/p>\n

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Another viewer in Adams County, Kyle Benner, also captured video (see below). Benner said the video was recorded in Fairfield, looking to the southeast. <\/p>\n

About the SpaceX Falcon 9<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAPRIL 11: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Northrop Grumman\u00e2s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft on a commercial resupply mission (NG-24) to the International Space Station from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n

Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket designed and built by SpaceX.It is made for the reliable and safe transport of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond.Falcon 9 is the world\u2019s first orbital-class reusable rocket.Its reusability lets SpaceX fly the most expensive parts of the rocket again.This helps reduce the cost of access to space.Falcon 9 by the numbers<\/p>\n

HEIGHT | 229.6 feet<\/p>\n

WEIGHT | 1,207,920 pounds<\/p>\n

DIAMETER | 12 feet<\/p>\n

PAYLOAD TO LOW-EARTH ORBIT | 50,265 pounds<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company\u2019s Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s definitely *** shooting star of some sort. I got it on video, while I’m videoing. Rocket launched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74533,3679,74534,74535,4902,74536,3169,74537,5918,2682,74540,74541,74542,28,30,29,74543,74544,74545,9493,74546,70875,19004,74538,74539,74547,74548,2812],"class_list":{"0":"post-165475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-29-starlink-satellites","9":"tag-adams-county","10":"tag-cape-canaveral","11":"tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","12":"tag-content","13":"tag-earth-orbit","14":"tag-fairfield","15":"tag-falcon-9","16":"tag-florida","17":"tag-franklin-county","18":"tag-low-earth-orbit","19":"tag-orbital-class-reusable-rocket","20":"tag-payload","21":"tag-pennsylvania","22":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","23":"tag-pennsylvania-news","24":"tag-reusable-rocket","25":"tag-rocket-launch","26":"tag-rocket-streaking-across-the-sky","27":"tag-south-mountain","28":"tag-space-access","29":"tag-space-launch","30":"tag-spacex","31":"tag-spacex-launch","32":"tag-starlink","33":"tag-two-stage-rocket","34":"tag-visible-in-pennsylvania","35":"tag-wgal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}