Mid-Atlantic region: Look toward the south about 3 to 6 minutes after launch. If you're west of the Cape, look low toward the east-northeast. If you are south of the Cape, look low toward the north-northeast. coastline: Anywhere north of Cape Canaveral, viewers should initially concentrate on the south-southwest horizon. As the old saying goes: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Still, it might be worth the attempt to try and see what might be seen.

However, those who remember sighting the brilliant glow of the space shuttle as it raced along the Atlantic seaboard on its way to orbit, may be disappointed in their attempt to sight Falcon 9, whose single engine fires with only a fraction of the brilliance of the three main engines of the shuttle. It should appear as a small, pulsating, fast-moving star, shining with a yellowish-orange glow. EDT on Sunday.ДЄfter the first stage is shut down, Falcon 9 will be visible only by virtue of the light emanating from its second stage thanks to a single Merlin 1C engine. Only an extended red dot nears the horizon, but neat all the same.'Дepending on where you are located relative to Cape Canaveral, Falcon 9 might become visible anywhere from just a few seconds up to perhaps three minutes after it leaves Complex 40 at 8:35 p.m. However, the Falcon 9 engines burn kerosene and liquid oxygen, (which) are pretty bright, and will be brighter than an Atlas launch, which would be the closest comparison.'ДЄnother veteran satellite watcher, Richard Langley of Florida said: 'I saw the 22 May launch from Marco Island (about 170 miles from Cape Canaveral). Veteran satellite watcher, George William Herbert said: 'It won't be the same as the shuttle, which is much, MUCH bigger and whose have hot glowing white aluminum oxide in the exhaust and smoke trail. The light emitted will be visible for the first three minutes of the launch out to a radius of about 500 miles (804 kilometers) from Cape Canaveral - an area more than three times the size of Texas. In the southeast United States, depending on a observer's distance from Cape Canaveral, the Falcon 9 rocketshould be readily visible thanks to the fiery output of the nine Merlin 1C engines powering the first stage. It is expected that the glow created by the rocket's Merlin 1C liquid propellant rocket engines should be visible in varying degrees along much of the Eastern seaboard. EDT (0035 Monday GMT) at Launch Complex 40, SpaceX's launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.ДЄs has been the case with space shuttle launches to the space station, Sunday's liftoff will bring the Falcon 9 rocket's path nearly parallel to the U.S. To reach the space station, the Falcon 9 rocket must be launched when Earth's rotation carries the launch pad into the plane of the station's orbit. spacecraft to reach the space station since NASA's last space shuttle flight departed in July 2011. In May the Dragon capsule became the first U.S. The rocket will be carrying the gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. The night launch will mark the fourth flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, a privately built boosterthat has made three successful flights since 2010. Skywatchers in the eastern United States have an opportunity to spot the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on an International Space Station resupply flight on Sunday night (Oct.

Rocket launch tonight