SpaceX launch could create ‘space jellyfish’ over Central Florida skies

Looking to the sky over Central Florida on Tuesday morning, you’ll have a chance to see a rocket heading to orbit from Cape Canaveral, and potentially a beautiful sight. SpaceX is targeting a 1-hour window that opens at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday to launch the Bandwagon-5 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission was originally supposed to launch Monday morning, but was scrubbed due to unfavorable recovery weather conditions. The mission is carrying a number of smaller satellites and re-entry vehicles into orbit for a rideshare mission. The re-entry vehicles will eventually be used to carry some, if not all, of those satellites back to Earth. But the coolest part of this mission may happen as the rocket heads into space, where we could see a ‘space jellyfish’ like the one we saw about a week ago. A ‘space jellyfish’ happens when the sun is shining on the upper atmosphere, though it is still dark outside. When the rocket exhaust reaches those high altitudes, the gases expand and are illumina