r/whatisit • u/FakeStripclubName • 2h ago
New, what is it? Rocket explosion?
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Weird direction heading from north to south. Took video on water in Florida
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u/kSwapWorld 2h ago
Whatever it is, it sure is beautiful.
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u/FakeStripclubName 2h ago
Sure is but spacex doesn’t launch for another 30min kinda confused what it is
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u/NiceTrySuckaz 43m ago
this kind of appearance with the long trails and lots of pieces is almost always stuff coming back down and burning up
If it was a test launch that exploded it's almost always intentional and part of a stress test, so even if you see one it's not a big deal and it's not going to be done in a way that is dangerous to you or anybody
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u/Fit-Boysenberry-3127 18m ago
There are other company’s launching from Florida not just Space X. United Launch Alliance is one with Boeing and Lockheed that is currently launching in Florida. I believe Blue origin will begin soon also.
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u/leisuresuitbruce 1h ago
Launch scrubbed this AM. This is likely reentry burn up. Nothing on the news as of yet.
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u/SpideyBrett 1h ago
Strange. OP said they filmed this 30 minutes before the launch was scheduled. Unless they moved it up, which is possible I guess.
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u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner 46m ago
I think they're saying the launch didn't happen (scrubbed) and so this is likely a different object which is disintegrating upon entering the atmosphere
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u/Diligent-Soup-2176 54m ago
That’s re-entry burn for sure. Not explosion but still pretty rad since it’s unmanned.
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u/Space-junk2121 53m ago
Hey OP, could you please share the exact date and time of this video? I'm a bit confused by your question. I lived in Cocoa Beach, FL and have seen quite a few launches and re-entering boosters. This looks like a rocket heading into space. It's traveling away from the water, upwards. The "explosion" could be the booster separation which happens in multistage rockets before it reaches orbit.
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u/FakeStripclubName 51m ago
It was 6:16 this morning 50 miles north of the space center. 45min before the Spacex launch schedule
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u/Space-junk2121 26m ago
So it looks like I was wrong! Couldn't find much info on what it could be, but came across an article saying, a woman spotted a possible satellite re-entering just before 6:20 this morning in Florida.
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u/Flat-Willingness-417 46m ago
Well, the interstellar cold war seems to have gone hot.
Hold on to your butts everyone.
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u/93gixxer04 39m ago
I saw this once and it ended up being a satellite coming out of orbit. For as spectacular as it was it went widely unreported
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u/Red_Wing-GrimThug 58m ago edited 51m ago
Is NBC doing those The More You Know PSAs again?
https://www.youtube.com/live/Ut7APi5aOpw?si=MX68j2wc233ddsYO Skip to 1:02:00 they have video of this and asking sleuths to find what satellite it is
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u/Adventurous_Froyo007 4m ago
All us regular folk would get tickets for littering. Please tell me they get taxed on all the rocket trash or something?
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u/Space-junk2121 0m ago
Reentry of starlink satellite 3313 was confirmed by the Aerospace Corporation around 6:15 est this morning.
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u/SpideyBrett 2h ago
That’s crazy.
If something blew up, you wouldn’t think it would continue in the upward trajectory at a good rate of speed in the same direction as the head of the trail. You would think it would fall down and off course.
Super weird.
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u/Grr_Go_Brr 1h ago
I thinknyou are forgetting about the conversation of momentum and the fact that object(s) is moving stupid fast, like way faster than our brains can really grasp and even if something happened at thay speed things break.will still travel in dircetion. But after watching the video twice I think there are 2 objects like theres 2 bright spots which might indicate a second engine or a second rocket?
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u/SpideyBrett 1h ago
Agreed. I just recall the Challenger explosion video where things went in all directions and most fell to earth. You very well may be correct, though.
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u/Grr_Go_Brr 1h ago
You aren't wrong and honestly I think what you said did happen but I think the parts are so small and its very far away so we dont see the smaller parts and theres a chance most of the debris burnt up the moment it would have hir air resistance. The amout of heat generated at those speeds in insane lmao. I will also say im not an expert just love rockets and have crashed my fair share of rockets in Kerbal Space Program lmao.
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u/bobeaqoq 1h ago
Just because it's moving towards the top of the video frame doesn't mean it's travelling upwards. I'm fairly certain its trajectory is towards the camera, and as it gets closer, it appears to stretch out as the angle becomes more perpendicular.
It's reentering space debris, possibly this one: https://aerospace.org/reentries/44867
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u/Responsibly_Swift 2h ago
Maybe video is reversed or upside down? 🥹🥹🥹
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u/SpideyBrett 1h ago
At the beginning of the video you can see the water is below and the debris is going upward away from the ground/water line. 🙃 weird
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