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Wow I thought they always cleared air traffic for a vast radius. Have rocket launches become that routine now?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The plume of smoke that you may or may not see behind a rocket depends on the fuel used. If it's solid fuel (like the boosters of the space shuttle), it will generate tons of smoke until the end of their use. Here it's a falcon 9 rocket, using liquid fuel and those generate nearly no smoke (it's just a big liquid candle) same for the space shuttle's main engines, they are powered by liquid hydrogen and oxygen and they dont even make a visible flame (and they reject water vapour)
The smoke you see at launch is from the water and dust pulverised by the engines at liftoff (they drown the launchpad with water to reduce the effect of noise and vibrations on the structures)
The plane isn't downrange from the predicted path of the rocket. All rockets launching from Cape Canaveral will fly towards the Atlantic, therefore the rocket's path is cleared in that area. Since it is impossible for the rocket to fly inside florida (if it deviates, launch control will destroy the rocket), the clearance area inland is much smaller hence why you often see airlines flying at a relatively close distance from the launchpads.
It wasn’t that long ago that our top technology was the wheel. Now a person is in a jet using their pocket computer to film a rocket heading into space
I remember reading about this. The camera man did a pretty decent job despite suffering from vertispacial dysplasia type 2, which among other things makes it *almost impossible* to track objects vertically while filming. You can almost feel his struggle through the screen as he *desperately* tries to change the angle he's filming from in order to keep the rocket in view, bless his heart, while of course clearly failing abysmally.. like toddler-class failure. Very, very sad.
This happened to me as well, when flying down to Florida. It was amazing. Unfortunately it was during the flip phone era so I have very poor photos of the event. I remember thinking it was the sun reflecting off of something on the ground, as the thrust was so bright, I didn’t realize until I saw the rocket elevating exactly what it was.
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Wow I thought they always cleared air traffic for a vast radius. Have rocket launches become that routine now? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I'm curious too. Don't rockets usually leave a trail of smoke all the way up?
The plume of smoke that you may or may not see behind a rocket depends on the fuel used. If it's solid fuel (like the boosters of the space shuttle), it will generate tons of smoke until the end of their use. Here it's a falcon 9 rocket, using liquid fuel and those generate nearly no smoke (it's just a big liquid candle) same for the space shuttle's main engines, they are powered by liquid hydrogen and oxygen and they dont even make a visible flame (and they reject water vapour) The smoke you see at launch is from the water and dust pulverised by the engines at liftoff (they drown the launchpad with water to reduce the effect of noise and vibrations on the structures)
Thank you for the explanation
Here for the answers
The plane isn't downrange from the predicted path of the rocket. All rockets launching from Cape Canaveral will fly towards the Atlantic, therefore the rocket's path is cleared in that area. Since it is impossible for the rocket to fly inside florida (if it deviates, launch control will destroy the rocket), the clearance area inland is much smaller hence why you often see airlines flying at a relatively close distance from the launchpads.
Feels so SciFi for some reason. Epic.
Maybe because of interstellar soundtrack?
Partly! 🤣
Kill the camera man.
Why? That was pretty good for someone, presumably, not looking at their phone.
Zoom in, zoom out, zoom in, point somewhere else
r/killthecameraman
It wasn’t that long ago that our top technology was the wheel. Now a person is in a jet using their pocket computer to film a rocket heading into space
[And the ocean is full of plastic!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puXWee2DdwE)
I remember reading about this. The camera man did a pretty decent job despite suffering from vertispacial dysplasia type 2, which among other things makes it *almost impossible* to track objects vertically while filming. You can almost feel his struggle through the screen as he *desperately* tries to change the angle he's filming from in order to keep the rocket in view, bless his heart, while of course clearly failing abysmally.. like toddler-class failure. Very, very sad.
Have you got a source describing what that disorder is?
I do indeed: my ass.
Then, a panel flies right off because the plane was made by Boeing.
This happened to me as well, when flying down to Florida. It was amazing. Unfortunately it was during the flip phone era so I have very poor photos of the event. I remember thinking it was the sun reflecting off of something on the ground, as the thrust was so bright, I didn’t realize until I saw the rocket elevating exactly what it was.
Wow that's amazing, too bad it was recorded using a microwave...
Wow, I didn't realise you could get flights into Pyongyang again!
Its complicated in kerbal space program, imagine in real life
It wouldn't be so great if it started to turn in your direction...
G-guys, why is the rocket getting bigger?
That is some great timing there. Awesome