SpaceX rocket launch lights up California skies

[nitpicker]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/spacex-rocket-launch-lights-up-california-skies-2018-10-07?mod=newsviewer_click

SpaceX rocket launch lights up California skies

Published: Oct 7, 2018 11:50 p.m. ET

Elon Musk’s SpaceX pulled off the first West Coast launch and landing of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday night, lighting up the skies of California.

The rocket, carrying an Argentinian satellite, blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Santa Barbara, around 7:20 p.m. Sunday, and landed on a concrete pad at the base about 15 minutes later. All previous Falcon 9 launches had been from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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[4now]

1. It was a spectacular light show

I have never seen anything like it.
If I didn't already know it was a Spacex launch I might have been freaked out.

[Kind of Blue]

2. Freaked my husband out a little until he came

home and did some Googling. He described it pretty much as a gorgeous comet before finding out that it was a rocket launching.

Thanks for posting!

[wasupaloopa]

3. We missed it while watching the Dodgers

lose to Atlanta.

[3Hotdogs]

4. Argentine economy is in the shitter. Where did they get money to build and launch a satellite?

[Brother Buzz]

5. Beg, borrow or steal, they are investing in the future

The satellite has SAR X-band and L-band. They can recoup their investment, and then some, if they find the fabled Inca gold rumored to be buried in Patagonia.