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Why are these rocket launches always at night? Any particular reason for this?


Rocket launch time is largely determined by the eventual orbit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window


ISS bound launches have to launch while the ISS is passing overhead so that the orbit of the spacecraft is at the same inclination as ISS. The reason for this is that inclination changes are expensive fuel-wise once you're in orbit.


Previous launch attempt last saturday was in day light.




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