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anybody see this a few minutes ago? (Original Post)
Kali
Mar 2024
OP
It's a rocket launch con-trail, it gets wider with the drop in atmospheric pressure as altitude increases.
Jack-o-Lantern
Mar 2024
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AllaN01Bear
(23,194 posts)1. space shot ?
Bluethroughu
(5,841 posts)2. Wow, was it loud?
Kali
(55,829 posts)3. found it and there is video
Jack-o-Lantern
(1,010 posts)4. It's a rocket launch con-trail, it gets wider with the drop in atmospheric pressure as altitude increases.
3Hotdogs
(13,482 posts)5. It is. It is the launch of another
Jewish space laser.
AZ8theist
(6,542 posts)6. NOT TRUE!!
The exhaust gets wider after the rocket smashes in to the dome. Everyone knows that !!
Just kidding!!
It was a SpaceX Starlink launch from Vandenberg in California. The near south trajectory would give us in Arizona the image that the OP captured:
https://www.rocketlaunch.live/launch/starlink-7-16
Ptah
(33,516 posts)7. Great shot, Kali!
It reminds me that 80% of the US cannot see the Milky Way.
I envy your night sky view.
Ptah
(33,516 posts)8. Saturday's SpaceX rocket launch will be visible in Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) SpaceX is planning another launch for Saturday night.
Initially the launch was supposed to occur on Thursday night, but SpaceX pushed it back to Saturday.
The launch will be visible in the western Arizona sky.
The planned Falcon 9 launch mission will send 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Liftoff is set for 7:23 p.m.
Initially the launch was supposed to occur on Thursday night, but SpaceX pushed it back to Saturday.
The launch will be visible in the western Arizona sky.
The planned Falcon 9 launch mission will send 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Liftoff is set for 7:23 p.m.
https://www.kvoa.com/news/local/saturdays-spacex-rocket-launch-will-be-visible-in-arizona/article_5ff23ab8-ee3b-11ee-8eba-f34ceb01f25e.html
they are trying to keep me awake too late