Yesterday morning a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 6:33 am. Two minutes later we could see it rising from our street in Ocala. The photo shows the upper stage climbing away on the left while the booster return burn can be seen towards the upper right. It was theContinue reading “Flight of the Falcon”
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SpaceXhaust
We noticed this strange cloud as we embarked on our morning walk yesterday. Its extraordinary appearance had us momentarily puzzled and then it dawned on us, SpaceX had launched another Falcon 9 rocket laden with 29 Starlink satellites minutes before. It wasn’t a cloud, it was SpaceX rocket exhaust. (SpaceXhaust?) #clouds #rocketexhaust #falcon9 #spacex #starlink
Morning Apparition
At the start of our morning walk, we spotted the strange looking, tadpole-like contrail seen in the top photo, and wondered what sort of jet had produced it. Only it wasn’t a jet, it was a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 satellites into earth orbit. As we watched it ascend away from us the reentryContinue reading “Morning Apparition”
