NASA commercial partner Orbital Sciences Corporation launched its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard the Antares rocket at 1:07 p.m. EST Thursday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia for the Orbital-1 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

› Complete coverage of Cygnus at http://www.nasa.gov/orbital

At the time of launch the station was flying about 260 miles over the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Brazil.

Wow what a site, at first I thought I was watching ISS fly over, but it was off track a bit and rather small, then I realized I was watching another smaller satellite much higher up, then I looked to the SW and there was ISS right on cue, it was beautiful, a perfectly clear nite here in South Jersey, I love my Spot the Station emails.