Watching the flight, my 9 year-old son says, "Cool! They put a GoPro on it!"
Beautiful California day for a rocket launch (And landing).
Your right about that, !st sunny day in a while. Luckily for me I live less than a hour away from the launch site and have watched several launches over the years. Today we parked on a road that gets to within 1 mile of the launch. Was a packed house with literally thousands of cars full of rocket watchers. Tried for a rocket picture but the Iphone always has a hard time focusing
Thats great! I'm in CA, and I want to drive down some time to see a launch from Vandenberg.
I just noticed something that apparently is nominal, because I reviewed a few previous launches and it occurred as well. If you look at the middle, assuming fill hose, whatever remains in that hose appears to be concentrated enough that it ignites from the exhaust plume. Anyone know what that is?
Thats great! I'm in CA, and I want to drive down some time to see a launch from Vandenberg.
But what burns? Oxygen is just part of combustion. There has to be something for it to oxidize.
There is most likely a tiny little bit of un-burnt RP1 in the exhaust plume of the rocket and the oxygen venting is enough to ignite it. You can see it in the night time launch also, post # 142.
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