Jellyfish Effect
NLT143///Launch Spotter

The Jellyfish
Effect

When a rocket lifts off in the narrow window around dawn or dusk, its exhaust climbs out of Earth's shadow into raw sunlight while the ground below stays dark — and the plume blooms into a glowing, drifting jellyfish across the twilight sky.

This spotter tracks every upcoming orbital launch and scores each one's twilight potential from the Sun's altitude at the pad.

🪼 Next twilight launch

H3-22 | Michibiki 7 (QZS-7)

T– : :Fri, Aug 7, 4:30 AM GMT+9

Pre-dawn window — a glowing plume is likely if skies are clear. From Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.

◆ Launch manifest
50 tracked / 13 twilight

Data: The Space Devs · Launch Library 2 · live feed · twilight scoring estimated from Sun altitude at the pad · support this project