posted 12-22-2017 09:06 PM
Successful Falcon 9 launch of Iridium 4, the fourth set of 10 satellites for Iridium's upgraded network, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California earlier this evening.
Interesting amateur video from a California resident.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2017 09:08 PM
To quote something a friend posted on Facebook in response to a similar video:
It's called a human-made "noctilucent cloud," a relatively rare phenomenon that happens when a rocket launch happens at just the right time at sunrise or sunset that the sun shines through the water vapor at extreme high altitude and causes it to glow.
Or, as Elon Musk tweeted tonight:
Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-22-2017 11:05 PM
The launch as viewed from a drone over Alhambra, California:
cspg Member
Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
posted 12-23-2017 04:24 AM
Quite a show!
Lunar rock nut Member
Posts: 911 From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A. Registered: Feb 2007
posted 12-24-2017 01:16 PM
Here is a video taken by my niece on San Nicholas Island located approx. 90 mi offshore from Oxnard Ca. My niece and brother were quite confused about what they were witnessing.
posted 12-22-2017 09:06 PM
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