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A sonic boom does not occur only at the moment an object crosses the sound barrier and neither is it heard in all directions emanating from the supersonic object. Rather, the boom is a continuous effect that occurs while the object is traveling at supersonic speeds and affects only observers that are positioned at a point that intersects a ...
The solar wind's equivalent of a sonic boom in the solar-system plasma medium can accelerate protons up to millions of miles per minute – as much as 40 percent of the speed of light. [citation needed] This is a proven source of auroras, but has never yet been shown to be sufficiently forceful and sufficiently abrupt to cause a "boom".
Sonic booms are top of the mind for some at the FAA as it evaluates whether to approve SpaceX’s request to carry out up to 25 Starship flights per year from South Texas. (Currently, the company ...
A sonic boom is a shock-wave, or pressure disturbance, caused by the movement of the plane through the air, much like the wave produced by the bow of a ship as it moves through water: just as the bow wave is produced for the entire journey of the ship, so the sonic shockwave occurs throughout the duration of a supersonic flight. [9]
An Air Force sonic boom fact sheet describes it as a “noise similar to thunder.” “It is caused by an object moving faster than sound — about 750 miles per hour at sea level,” it states.
Nov. 26—A team of Brigham Young University researchers measuring noise levels during SpaceX's Oct. 13 Starship Super Heavy launch from Boca Chica found that associated overpressure events had ...
Sonic Booms in Atmospheric Turbulence (SonicBAT) is an experiment of the Commercial Supersonic Technology Project, funded and operated by NASA. SonicBAT investigated the effect of low-altitude turbulence on the loudness of sonic booms hitting the ground using an F/A-18 aircraft to generate sonic booms. The sonic booms and the weather data are ...
The sonic booms, Titus said at the time, occurred when SpaceX rockets landed at Vandenberg, which he said happened about four or five times a year. More often, he said, the rockets return to a ...