"William Byrd" (thedriver)
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An Air Force Minotaur I rocket is scheduled to lift-off at 7:30 pm tonight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. NewsChannel 3 will stream the launch live on this page starting at 6:30pm.
The launch will be the second of a Minotaur from Wallops in the last three months, and it will set a record of 29 satellites launched from a single rocket.
The NASA Visitor Center at Wallops and the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge/Assateague Island National Seashore will be open for viewing the launch. Visitors to Assateague need to be on the island by 6 p.m. before the entrance gate closes.
The launch window runs from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and backup launch days run through November 26. The entire process, from ignition to delivery of the satellites in orbit, will take a little less than 12 1/2 minutes.
The launch will be visible across Hampton Roads, and depending on atmospheric conditions will be seen from northern Florida to southern Canada and west to Indiana.