{"id":750473,"date":"2026-07-08T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750473\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:28:10","slug":"another-spacex-rocket-launch-may-be-visible-from-north-carolina-thursday-morning-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750473\/","title":{"rendered":"Another SpaceX rocket launch may be visible from North Carolina Thursday morning :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another SpaceX rocket launch could be seen from central and eastern North Carolina Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The launch window opens at 5:05 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the rocket launches east, you might be able to catch a glimpse of its vapor trail.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/8f375b85-80eb-4192-b39e-3c1750e04c8a.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The sun rises earlier to the east. With the sun below our horizon, its beams are low enough and spread wide enough to illuminate the vapor trail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The longer after 5:05 a.m. the launch happens, the lower the chance is that we get to view it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our sunrise is at 6:07 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/02e2c9a3-e02b-49db-8def-2ed635a1a6c0.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So if you want to see the launch, you root for smooth operations when the launch window opens after 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>If you do see the launch, let us know with your pictures and\/or videos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/reportit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can send those to ReportIt here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another SpaceX rocket launch could be seen from central and eastern North Carolina Thursday morning.\u00a0 The launch window&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2256,13534,33401,79,193,1513],"class_list":["post-750473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-north-carolina","tag-rocket","tag-rocket-launch","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750473","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=750473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}