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No UFO, no meteor seen in Delaware Valley skies but a Florida rocket launch
Florida rocket launch as seen in Philadelphia
Florida rocket launch seen in Philadelphia. Courtesy Anthony Malave
PHILADELPHIA – Did you see one thing weird within the sky Saturday night?
No, it wasn’t a UFO, a meteor or perhaps a comet.
It was a rocket flying over our skies Saturday evening round sundown and it was fairly the sight, in case you noticed it.
The rocket did look much like a comet. The rocket, surprisingly, launched from Florida.
SpaceX launches rockets from NASA’s launch space in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and this one was carrying web satellites into house. The web satellites are for Starlink, the corporate related to Elon Musk.
These web satellites fly near Earth, and you may truly see them cross the sky proper in your yard on some clear nights. It would look as if a star is transferring as a result of they’re concerning the measurement of a star to our eyes.
As for the rocket that took them into house, it is known as Falcon 9 and it is reusable. Based on SpaceX, “Falcon 9 is the world’s first orbital class reusable rocket. Reusability permits SpaceX to refly the costliest components of the rocket, which in flip drives down the price of house entry.” SpaceX additionally mentioned that is the fourth time that the rocket took one thing into house.
As shocking because it was to see that within the sky Saturday evening, we have seen this similar sight previously. Anytime an even bigger rocket launches from Florida, we now have a shot at seeing the rocket launch if the skies are clear sufficient.
NASA additionally launches, typically smaller, rockets at their launch facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. We’ll additionally see a few of them within the sky when the skies are clear. Now, these rockets may have a distinct look–we’ll normally simply see clouds from them. The clouds that come out of their exhaust as they fly towards house.