A dying SpaceX rocket stage generated a strange and stunning 'night spiral' over Hawaii.
SpaceX launched the spy satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office . The Falcon 9 rocket was capped by a NROL-85 spacecraft, which lifted off at 9:13 am EDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California; the activity and payload of the spacecraft were classified.upper stage, which was deorbited over the Pacific [Ocean] just after the end of the 1st revolution," Netherlands-based satellite tracker Marco Langbroek told SpaceWeather.com.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 booster is reusable, and it landed successfully atop a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean,. The upper stage of Falcon 9 is not reusable, and after sending the spacecraft out to its assigned orbit, that stage fell back naturally in the atmosphere to burn up. The Subaru Telescope is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope located in Hawaii and operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The facility operates at 13,579 feet in altitude.
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