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fromLos Angeles Times
3 months ago

Southern California sky is lit up by Valentine's Day SpaceX launch

Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine's Day took a break from staring longingly into each other's eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southland sky. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket carried 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, according to the company.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 months ago

Sonic booms can protect Earth from dangerous space junk

Sonic booms detected by global seismometer networks can reconstruct uncontrolled spacecraft reentry paths and locate crash sites, offering a low-cost monitoring tool day or night.
fromVulture
5 months ago

Elon Musk's Sonic Booms Are Scaring Charlie Puth's Wife

Hi @elonmusk ...these sonic booms have gotten progressively louder since they started launching the rockets in Santa Barbara," he wrote. "This one at 3am today felt like 150-160 dB, violently shook our whole house, and really frightened my pregnant wife. I hope they do not get louder :/" December 10, 2025 The whole tone here is unexpectedly sad, from the pensive ellipses at the start of the tweet to the slanty face at the end.
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