Monday, April 1, 2024

Launch of Starlink 7-18


Pretty cool to just watch the launch of Starlink Group 7-18 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.  We are north quite aways, about 60 miles or so, in Cayucos and it was headed away from us.  It was still a thrill.  It took about 5 minutes for the rumbling sound of the launch to reach us.  



The last launch I watched in person was Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.  (We got married July 16, 1988.) 

Arvin Abbott

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