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Thursday, May 27, 2021

TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Visible Shockwave During SpaceX Starlink 28 Launch

For a moment, just at the point of max q, I thought the Falcon 9 launcher might be having a Really Bad Day. In fact, what was happening is that the the rocket's supersonic shock wave stimulated cloud formation in the atmosphere through which it was passing, as Scott Manley explains in less than a minute.

Posted at May 27, 2021 12:54