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Space Force satellite launch could create a luminous cloud in tonight's evening sky - Space.com

Space Force satellite launch could create a luminous cloud in tonight's evening sky - Space.com

Space Force satellite launch could create a luminous cloud in tonight's evening sky - Space.com
Jan 21, 2022 1 min, 23 secs

Space Force (USSF) mission that launched earlier today on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 511 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The mission, called USSF 8, will place the two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites — GSSAP 5 and GSSAP 6 —directly to a near-geosynchronous orbit approximately 22,300 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the equator.  .

Related: Atlas V rocket launches 2 surveillance satellites for US Space Force.

According to ULA's flight profile, 6 hours and 35 minutes after launch, the first of the two satellites (GSSAP 5) will be released to its geosynchronous orbit, followed 10 minutes later by the second satellite (GSSAP 6).

Seven hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds after the launch, the Centaur second stage will dump its unused (excess) fuel out into space.

It happens after satellite separation; the fuel bleeding off from a Centaur upper rocket stage. .

In a Twitter thread, assiduous satellite watcher Cees Bassa has provided a considerable amount of information concerning the visibility of the fuel dump:.

Friday evening a fuel dump from a rocket may be visible as a bright nebula in the sky for observers in North, Central and South America.

The fuel dump will occur at 18:11PST/21:11EST for the planned 19:00UTC launch of the #AtlasV rocket.

The fuel dump is expected for 9:11:40 p.m.

and Canada, who were watching the Perseid meteor shower, were surprised by a fuel dump from a Japanese satellite launch that created a luminous cloud. .

1, 2004, the fuel dump from an NRO-1 satellite launched earlier that day, was visible from the Eastern U.S.

Some might ask what is the necessity to dump fuel into space.

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