SpaceX has shared some surreal footage of a plasma trail created by its FalconHeavy rocketfairing as it fell to Earth at high speed during a recent mission.
Sunday evening’s flight launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and deployed three payloads that included the ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite — the first of at least three new-generation Boeing-built geostationary satellites for California-based ViaSat.
Related “Fairing reentry on the ViaSat-3 mission was the hottest and fastest we’ve ever attempted,” SpaceX said in a tweet. “The fairings reentered the atmosphere greater than 15x the speed of sound, creating a large trail of plasma in its wake.” For occasions when it opts not to pluck the two fairing pieces from the ocean, SpaceX attempts to catch them in giant nets on ships waiting in the ocean. The fairing can then be refurbished and used again in future rocket flights.
Two of the Falcon 9 boosters had already completed multiple flights. One of them previously supported the Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, and KPLO missions, as well as three Starlink missions, and another supported the Arabsat-6A and STP-2 missions.
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