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Sunset Rocket Launch From San Diego County

By Published On: June 17th, 20250.5 min readCategories: Photos
The vapor trail left by a SpaceX rocket just after sunset

What a Vandenberg rocket launch looks like from San Diego County on a warm JuneEvening

One of the cool things about living where I do is that whenever there’s a rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB, we can see it. And they’re especially cool when the occur at sunset. Growing up, you never saw these. Now, they’re almost commonplace, but they’re never anything less than spectacular to see.

Here’s last night’s SpaceX Starlink launch about 15 minutes after the rocket went up. Interestingly, the satellites reach orbit just 8 minutes after launch, but the vapor trails after sunset last much longer.

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I’m just a guy with nearly an acre of dirt, a nice little mid-century ranch house and a near-perfect climate. But in my mind I’m a landscaper survivalist craftsman chef naturalist with a barbeque the size of a VW and my own cable TV show. I like to write about the stuff I build, grow and see here at Sage's Acre.
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