Florida Today has a feature to give you launch status updates by cell phone, for those of you headed for the beaches or barbecues.

I’d bet that they’re going to launch today–no technical issues (no ice formed where the foam came off) and the forecast is about as good as it gets. Unfortunately, we can’t drive all the way up and back from Boca, and also have the people over for the planned barbecue and fireworks tonight (at least not easily, with high probability of success). We might head up north of Jupiter or Hobe Sound, though, where the coast turns to the northwest to give a view of the Cape from the south on a barrier island. That would only take an hour each way, and be relatively uncrowded. We wouldn’t hear or feel the launch, but we’d see it. Still making plans.