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A twilight phenomenon (seen from the Louisiana-24 Long Range Tracking Telescope site in northern Santa Barbara county) lights up the night sky over Vandenberg Air Force Base following the launch of a Minuteman III missile September 19, 2002 (Official USAF Photo by Dennis Fisher, 30th Communications Squadron) The twilight phenomenon caused by freezing unspent fuel from a Minotaur I launch at ...
Blue Moon's high-thrust engine will be used to study interactions between rocket exhaust plumes and the lunar surface. [3] As of 2023 [update] , uncrewed technology demonstration and risk reduction missions using MK1 were to be performed as early as 2025 and no later than 2026.
CFD is often undertaken for rocket plumes, where condensed phase constituents can be present in addition to gaseous constituents. These types of simulations can become quite complex, including afterburning and thermal radiation , and (for example) ballistic missile launches are often detected by sensing hot rocket plumes.
Shock diamonds are the bright areas seen in the exhaust of this statically mounted Pratt & Whitney J58 engine on full afterburner.. Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or thrust diamonds, and less commonly Mach disks) are a formation of standing wave patterns that appear in the supersonic exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet ...
The light-colored area of blown lunar surface dust created by the lunar module engine blast at the Apollo 15 landing site was photographed and confirmed by comparative analysis of photographs in May 2008. They correspond well to photographs taken from the Apollo 15 Command/Service Module showing a change in surface reflectivity due to the plume ...
The 33 Raptor rocket engines affixed to the bottom of the Super Heavy rocket booster are seen firing as SpaceX launched its fifth flight test of Starship on October 13. - Spacex/UPI/Shutterstock
Blue Ghost Mission 1 is a robotic Moon landing mission conducted by Firefly Aerospace, launched on January 15, 2025.As part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, the mission aims to deliver ten scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to support future human exploration of the Moon under the broader Artemis program.
Note the red glow behind the clouds. This is a sign that the rocket punched a hole in the ionosphere. It wouldn't be the first time. #SpaceX has been punching temporary holes in the ionosphere for ...