What you will have just seen is not some strange climatic phenomenon, however a fuel dump from a U.S. Space Force (USSF) mission that released earlier today on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 511 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.The launch, which occurred on right on schedule at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), brought 2 satellites for the USSFs Space Systems Command (SSC). Fuel dump need to produce luminescent cloud Seven hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds after the launch, the Centaur 2nd phase will discard its unused (excess) fuel out into area. The fuel dump will happen at 18:11 PST/21:11 EST for the planned 19:00 UTC launch of the #AtlasV rocket. And on Sept. 1, 2004, the fuel dump from an NRO-1 satellite introduced earlier that day, was noticeable from the Eastern U.S. and Canada.Why discard fuel into space?Some might ask what is the requirement to dispose fuel into space?
What you will have just seen is not some weird atmospheric phenomenon, however a fuel dump from a U.S. Space Force (USSF) mission that launched earlier today on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 511 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.The launch, which occurred on right on schedule at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), brought 2 satellites for the USSFs Space Systems Command (SSC). Fuel dump should develop luminescent cloud Seven hours, 11 minutes and 40 seconds after the launch, the Centaur second phase will discard its unused (excess) fuel out into space. And on Sept. 1, 2004, the fuel dump from an NRO-1 satellite launched previously that day, was noticeable from the Eastern U.S. and Canada.Why dump fuel into space?Some might ask what is the requirement to dump fuel into area?