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How to watch GPS III SV08

Fri, May 30, 1:37 PM EDT

Fri, May 30, 17:37 UTC · launch window 15 minutes

Falcon 9 Block 5 · SpaceX · Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

This launch has flown. The result, the replay and the date history are on the launch page.

How firm is the date: Flown
Date history: No date change recorded for this launch.
At the pad when the window opens: Daylight launch. The sun is up at the pad. You see the rocket and its exhaust trail; the engine flame is less vivid than at night, and from far away a day launch can be hard to pick out.

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Straight-line distance from each place to the Cape Canaveral pad we use for geometry; what you can see follows from the distance. The public viewing spots, fees and road closures are in the Cape Canaveral viewing guide.

Cocoa Beach & Titusville17 mi (27 km), look N
The whole ascent, low on the horizon.
Orlando49 mi (78 km), look E
The whole ascent, low on the horizon.
Tampa122 mi (196 km), look ENE
A rising light on the horizon: night launches only.
Jacksonville138 mi (223 km), look SSE
A rising light on the horizon: night launches only.
Miami195 mi (314 km), look N
A rising light on the horizon: night launches only.

What to expect

We have not checked this mission's landing plan by hand. If a booster flies back to a landing zone on land, its landing brings a sonic boom; the provider's mission page says where the booster lands.
Sound travels about a kilometre every 3 seconds (a mile every 5), so at a distance you see liftoff before you hear it.

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Launch time, status and pad: the Launch Library 2 manifest as synced by SpaceNexus; times move, and this page follows them.
Day or night: computed from the sun's position at the pad at the time shown. Distances: computed from coordinates.

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