Taco de Baja
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Rocket launch 1308 today (1/20/11) Vandenburg
If you are in the So Cal / North Baja area look to the north at 1:08 today. A huge rocket is planned to be going straight up.
| Quote: | From Florida Today: A Delta IV Heavy rocket today is poised to become the largest rocket ever to blast off from the West Coast
Launch of a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite into a polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is set for 4:08 p.m. EST
(1:08 p.m. local time).
The rocket will blast off with nearly 2 million pounds of thrust, making it the second-most powerful liquid-fueled U.S. rocket after the shuttle.
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"The rocket will blast off with nearly 2 million pounds of thrust, making it the second-most powerful liquid-fueled U.S. rocket after the shuttle."
Way cool... I hope I can see it well from Oceanside... Have camera!
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Taco de Baja
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Probably not visible in Baja.....
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I watched it as it headed south along the Baja coast... or maybe it was 1,000 miles out to sea?...
I took 26 shots as it slowling crossed from north to south... here they are, un-edited... (13 at a time)
It gets bigger...
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ADIOS!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tkPQunM0c
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Oggie
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Dk,
I also took many shots of that contrail only to find out after blowing it up, it is a jet that was just there at the time of the launch.
[Edited on 1-20-2011 by Oggie]
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You think that is what I saw... bummer!?
My blow ups (in the camera) don't show that..., I checked to see if I could see the source, strange! I have seen other launches... usually late in the
afternoon and they headed the same direction as this contrail... but I did expect it to vanish into space rather than follow the coast?
My camera clock (not sure if it is accurate) said the photos were taken between 1:12 and 1:20... starting 3-4 minutes after launch... and I am 200
miles downwind from Vandenberg... so it came into view right where I expected it to, and close to when.
I also don't know of ever seeing jets flying that high heading to Mexico... Unless it was a San Francisco to Acapulco jet? 
Thanks!
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Maybe it was woody en route to his secret universe
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