For rocket enthusiasts: There is sounding rocket launch from SHAR on March 12, 7PM. Though the rocket is small (RH560 MKIII), it should be a spectacular sight to view and photograph for two reasons (1) Twilight launch and they are truly incredible (2) The payload is most probably TMA (tri methyl aluminium) which is used to study upper atmosphere wind shear. It glows, allowing multiple ground stations at different locations to capture images. Then they use triangulation to build a model.
This will certainly be visible from Chennai but should also be visible from many other places pretty far away too. The rocket reaches an altitude of 500km and theoritically should be visible from as far away from Bangalore. Don’t miss it!
I was not aware of this. But I was driving from work to home, at 7:16 I saw a non blinking object moving in the sky. There was no ISS transit for the day, so I thought it was a meteor. Then it spread out like in the image. I thought meteor burnt out and it was its tail. Now I realise what this was. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, I just wanted if there are any upcoming launches as I missed this one. It will be helpful if you also mention the website link of the upcoming launches also. Thank you.
