{"id":583529,"date":"2026-04-14T11:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583529\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:40:09","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-launch-bright-and-visible-in-tuesday-pre-dawn-sky-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583529\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 launch bright and visible in Tuesday pre-dawn sky :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a launch window of 2:13 to 6:13 in the morning Tuesday for SpaceX&#8217;s latest rocket launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emerging from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the rocket&#8217;s vapor trails were illuminated by the rising sun farther east.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This set off a unique view that might&#8217;ve caught you by surprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry! The rocket wasn&#8217;t falling. <\/p>\n<p>It was being launched east of the area. The curvature of the earth makes it appear as though it&#8217;s going completely sidewise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/spacex-launch-caught-on-camera-in-nc\/22347800\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Your photos: SpaceX launch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve gotten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/spacex-launch-caught-on-camera-in-nc\/22347800\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">so many pictures<\/a> from you! Keep &#8217;em coming by submitting them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/reportit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wral.com\/reportit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1d825f51-57da-4b54-8100-62e25e89f2b6.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/207846d3-90e7-4483-974a-4b338e34b718.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a launch window of 2:13 to 6:13 in the morning Tuesday for SpaceX&#8217;s latest rocket launch.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2256,13534,33401,79,193,1513],"class_list":{"0":"post-583529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-north-carolina","9":"tag-rocket","10":"tag-rocket-launch","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}