SBIRSGE04 by United Launch Alliance

At 7:48pm (ET) on Friday, January 19, 2018 United Launch Alliance (ULA) would successfully launch the #SBIRS / SBIRSGeo4 satellite atop a (Mighty) #AtlasV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

 

This is a composite showing 35 minutes of stars rotating above the pad until just before liftoff and the streak is a 168-second exposure of the rocket.

 

Photo available here: www.photosofstuff.xyz/SBIRSGEO4-by-United-Launch-Alliance/

 

(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)

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