Credit & Copyright: Chris Cook
Explanation:
Star trails arc above a moonlit beach and
jetty in this serene sea and night skyscape.
Captured on November 19, the
single time exposure looks south down
the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.
But the longest and brightest trail is a
Minotaur 1
rocket, a stage separation and exhaust plume visible along the
rocket's fiery path toward low Earth orbit.
The multi-stage Minotaur was launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Spaceport at NASA's
Wallops
Flight Facility at 8:15 pm Eastern Time
in Virginia, about 400 miles away.
On board were
a remarkable 29 satellites destined for low Earth orbit, including a small
cubesat
built by high school students, and
Firefly.
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