          APOD: 2018 July 4 - Dawn s Early Light, Rocket s Red Glare

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                                  2018 July 4
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                    Dawn's Early Light, Rocket's Red Glare
              Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Michael Seeley [4]

Explanation: If you saw [5] the dawn's early light from Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station last Friday, June 29, then you could have seen this rocket's red
glare. The single 277-second long exposure, made from the roof of NASA's
Vehicle Assembly building, shows a predawn Falcon 9 launch, the rocket
streaking eastward into the sky about 45 minutes before sunrise. At high
altitude, its stage separation plume is brightly lit by the Sun still below
the eastern horizon. The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage had been launched
before [6] , lofting the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into
orbit on April 18, only 72 days earlier [7] . For this launch of SpaceX
Commercial Resupply Service mission 15 (CRS-15) it carried an also previously
flown Dragon capsule. But no further reuse of this Falcon 9 was planned so no
dramatic first stage landing followed [8]  the launch. The Dragon capsule
arrived at the International Space Station on July 2 [9] .

                      Tomorrow's picture: shadowrise [10]

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