In what is already doing a common fact, a Space rocket of the American company Spacex The night sky of Cuba illuminated on Monday.
He did it at a time when Most of the country was without electricityon a day where the blackouts would reach a new peak on the island, according to Official forecasts.
He Falcon 9 rocketof the company directed by the magnate Elon Musk, was launched at 8:48 at night from the Cabo Cañaveral Space Station, in Florida, and its light wake was seen not only in that US Peninsula but also in the Caribbean area.
In Cuba, which in the night peak had predicted an affectation greater than 1800 MW, the rocket He was sighted in different provincesaccording to reports on social networks.
Meteorologist Henry Delgado Manzor, who confirmed his sighting in Matanzas, explained than meteorological conditions had been “favorable for observation”Of the spacecraft, which had as a mission put several satellites into orbit.
The expert explained that “the little cloudiness about the Cuban archipelago at that time” facilitated that “several Internet users reported having seen the rocket from different regions of Cuba.”
In the comments of this and other publications, numerous users attest to the event, the same from territories of the West and the center of the island, as from the Cuban East.
In addition, several comments and independent publications In the networks they confirmed the Avistamation during the blackout that affected at that time a large part of the countrywhich undoubtedly contributed to the phenomenon to stand out more at night and be observed by more people.
Press reports and networks – like that of Delgado Manzor – reported that the rocket seen last night in Cuba was The third launched by Spacex in less than 48 hourseach with different missions.
Falcon 9 launches The Bandwagon-3 Rideshare Mission to Orbit From Florida pic.twitter.com/bzstzox2ne
– Spacex (@spacex) April 22, 2025
Unlike what happened In January And also last March, The ship did not explode in the sky Shortly after your takeoff. On those occasions, the launched rocket was not the Falcon 9 but the starship, and its exit did not occur from Florida, but from Boca Chica, in Texas.
Now, Falcon 9 carried out the mission named Bandwagon-3. The two previous missions of this type-the Bandwagon-1 and 2-had been launched in April and December last year.
