Well.. that was cool 😮

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[u/rainboww_J]

is that a bunch of (rocket?) fuel which is leaking out? It looks amazingly beautiful but ehh makes me wonder what effect it has on the places it falls down to

edit: saw a comment saying it was just the rocket exhaust. Didn't know it could look like this 😮

[u/Huge_Resist_105 → u/rainboww_J]

lol it’s exhaust, not fuel.

[u/uknow_es_me → u/Huge_Resist_105]

why do these spacex launches look so different though? It's very unique to their system.. never saw that with titan or shuttle launches. 

[u/MrTagnan → u/uknow_es_me]

This specific phenomenon can happen with any rocket, but the “explosion” of gases only occurs because of the interaction between the first and second stage engines when the first stage performs the boostback burn to return to land. Compare this to some of the other launches that don’t return to land and it’ll look a lot more like a singular plume rather than two

[u/rainboww_J → u/Huge_Resist_105]

yeah thought it was an explosion instead of a separation since it looks so dramatic with the low lighting and the clouds

[u/docArriveYo → u/rainboww_J]

That’s because the booster flips around and does its boostback burn. Looks awesome cuz the booster travels in the same direction as the exhaust plume for a bit. It’s always cool to see!

[u/zackinthesoda → u/rainboww_J]

Depends on which type of rocket fuel theyre using tbh. One is atleast liquid oxygen. The other varies i think? Dont remember.

[u/Quiet-Cranberry8414 → u/zackinthesoda]

Liquid hydrogen for example.

[u/MrTagnan → u/zackinthesoda]

This rocket uses Rocket Propellant 1 (kerosene but more refined) and liquid oxygen

[u/Radiant_Speaker_5944]

I don't see anybody asking but where were you when the video was taken? I'm assuming that's Vandenberg, maybe not though. I'm in SoCal and the rockets light up, but this seems much closer.

[u/Accomplished-Crab932 → u/Radiant_Speaker_5944]

This would’ve been CRS-35, so a launch from the cape.

[u/Radiant_Speaker_5944 → u/Accomplished-Crab932]

Ahhh got it. Just about 3000 miles off. I would not do great at geoguesser. Hahah

[u/Accomplished-Crab932 → u/Radiant_Speaker_5944]

lol ur good.

Ironically, most people are unaware that Vandenberg is an active launch site

[u/Radiant_Speaker_5944 → u/Accomplished-Crab932]

I guess if you aren't close enough you would never know or even have heard of it. So makes sense.

[u/xbussyqueen]

what is that??

[u/123supreme123 → u/xbussyqueen]

Musktrails

[u/xbussyqueen → u/123supreme123]

still no idea what that is😂

[u/Wow-WhatARide → u/xbussyqueen]

Rocket rises into the sunlight, ejects boosters in cloud of gases, then moves forward on its own.

[u/unique9377 → u/xbussyqueen]

Think it's spacex rocket debris entering the atmosphere.. something like that anyway

[u/11b_Zac → u/unique9377]

Exiting the atmosphere. This was an early morning launch that captured the sun rays hitting the rocket plume as it passed through the part of the atmosphere that has the right conditions for it to create what we see here.

[u/IYAOYAS-CVN74 → u/123supreme123]

That's funny 🤣

[u/Guilty-Movie-3727 → u/xbussyqueen]

I'm guessing it is the separation of a booster from a Space X rocket

[u/One_Kick_9603]

SpaceX

[u/DAS_FX]

Just incredible footage

[u/OutlandishnessHour19]

It looks like someone unzipped the nighttime sky to reveal daytime behind

[u/NeutronexYTO]

Basically creates a noctilucent cloud

[u/Marti_McFlyy]

what the hell was that....

[u/indoorsorout]

The catalytic converter fell off

[u/Distinct-King5808]

want 2 see that irl!!!
Whose nuts I have to crack for it?…afaf.

[u/Flimsy_Tradition2688]

Copied from iran, immediately

[u/put_intheblackhole]

Master Chief!?

[u/sharpe_bois]

When earth farts

[u/Substantial-Recipe72]

W space sex rocket 🚀

[u/Prestigious-Key-1886]

It’s aliens 👽

[u/theouter_banks]

Amazing!

[u/Old_Ad9574]

Oh, wait! This actually happened?

[u/Crackedbwo → u/Old_Ad9574]

These happen all the time.

[u/way2shmood → u/Crackedbwo]

Just regular old day over here

Wtf???

[u/bobsmeds]

Just wait til that happens when they're sending nuclear material to the moon to build their lunar reactors

[u/C0ZM → u/bobsmeds]

Might come sooner than we think. NASA fast-tracked nuclear fission on the Moon by 2030

[u/madmartigan2020 → u/bobsmeds]

Wait til what happens?

NASA has been launching deep space probes with radioisotope power systems (nuclear batteries) since the late 60s.

[u/bobsmeds → u/madmartigan2020]

Go take your bad faith argument somewhere else lol

[u/Chris0607]

Time for RFK Junior to take on this Chemtrails /s

[u/Adept-Donut-4229]

Ahhh, breathe it in…

[u/crackersncheeseman]

You would think it would be safer to launch in the day time.

[u/noload_load → u/crackersncheeseman]

Rocket doesn’t care about daylight. Launch time is selected for the orbit they want.

[u/Accomplished-Crab932 → u/crackersncheeseman]

It can only launch when the ISS is in the right position. As it turns out, it happened to be just before sunrise this time.

Launch vehicles like this gain little benefit from the sun. It’s only useful for experimental launches. But this is Falcon 9, which has logged over 700 launches as the most reliable rocket in the world. The sun does not matter for it.

[u/DarthRiznat]

Another SpaceX fuckup?

[u/MrTagnan → u/DarthRiznat]

Nope, just like the last 344 Falcon 9 launches

[u/Unfair_Implement_582]

The truth is staring you right in the face and yet virtually no one can’t see it. That’s all I’m gonna say. Eventually truth will become self evident.

[u/madmartigan2020 → u/Unfair_Implement_582]

Right...