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    First flight of Starship V3 produces visible shockwaves in the air as it launches, shot on my remote camera placed right outside the pad!

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    1. Adept-Donut-4229 on

      I would do this for free. I wouldn’t demand a trillion dollars, FYI.

    2. luranthe on

      Cool tech. Shame it’s owned by one of the worst people to ever live.

      Edit. Yeah spaceflight is important, boundary pushing science. At the same time, if I have to explain to you all the horrible things that man has said and done and why they are bad, I have so little hope for you. Red hats out in force in the comments.

    6. KalebsFamilyBBQ on

      Sound stops being sound at a certain point and just becomes shockwaves. I imagine that’s what you are seeing. Super cool!

      *Edit: proper vocabulary

    8. Bright_Bullfrog6541 on

      18 million pounds of thrust. What if you used two of those boosters? Could we use two of those boosters simultaneously? Good lord that’s a lot of juice.

    9. jmims98 on

      Very cool and I do love these rockets. But I think sound is going to become and issue at some point (yes I know there have already been complaints). Even my family in central Florida will occasionally get woken up by am Falcon booster reentry.

    15. silentbob1301 on

      yeah, this is mostly because they dont have a proper water curtain and flame trench. If/when they launch from Kennedy this wont happen, as the flame trenches and water curtains stop them, the shockwaves, from destroying all the surrounding infrastructure

    16. Darth_Abhor on

      Does it look like this with the naked eye or just something you see with the camera?

    17. Hato_no_Kami on

      “What if the explosion just kept exploding?” – Goddard, probably.

    20. Tacozforever on

      “Right outside the pad”. So what…? Like 1.5 miles, 3 miles? Not hating, just curious. How close can you actually get?

    26. TheMouthOfGod on

      We have reports of an unidentified flying object with a long smooth shaft!

    27. BreathEcstatic on

      I think this is the reason one of the shuttles failed. Shock waves knocked off some heat tiles and it compromised the ship.

    28. Grace_Lannister on

      How far in advanced do they let you know the day they’ll be launching? I would love to see it in person.

    29. TheKahura on

      This looks like it could also be partially some distortion from the camera being vibrated partway through capturing each frame. Cool effect though.

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