Visible Satellites over Orange County

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Originally Posted by Charles

I and dozens of other employees at my company in El Segundo did. I was on the roof of a two story building and we saw a white plume go part way up into the sky. Vandenberg is about 140 miles away linearly. There were notifications that people who live within 50 miles may actually hear the rocket.

Hypothetically, with the speed of sound at one mile every five seconds, the sound would have taken 5 * 140 = 700 seconds ~ 12 minutes to reach El Segundo.

I witnessed a shuttle launch from the VIP area, three miles away from the launchpad, at Cape Canaveral. When the shuttle lifts off, you don't hear anything for 15 seconds.

That's pretty cool!

[Charles]

Huge rocket blasts into space - OC Science : The Orange County Register

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Originally Posted by Charles

I and dozens of other employees at my company in El Segundo did. I was on the roof of a two story building and we saw a white plume go part way up into the sky. Vandenberg is about 140 miles away linearly. There were notifications that people who live within 50 miles may actually hear the rocket.

Hypothetically, with the speed of sound at one mile every five seconds, the sound would have taken 5 * 140 = 700 seconds ~ 12 minutes to reach El Segundo.

I witnessed a shuttle launch from the VIP area, three miles away from the launchpad, at Cape Canaveral. When the shuttle lifts off, you don't hear anything for 15 seconds.

Lots of our people also headed out of the buildings to see it at our facility. Of course with my luck I had a 1pm meeting.