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fromLos Angeles Times
6 days ago

Southern California sky is lit up by Valentine's Day SpaceX launch

Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine's Day took a break from staring longingly into each other's eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southland sky. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket carried 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, according to the company.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
4 weeks ago

Sonic booms can protect Earth from dangerous space junk

Sonic booms detected by global seismometer networks can reconstruct uncontrolled spacecraft reentry paths and locate crash sites, offering a low-cost monitoring tool day or night.
fromVulture
2 months ago

Elon Musk's Sonic Booms Are Scaring Charlie Puth's Wife

Hi @elonmusk ...these sonic booms have gotten progressively louder since they started launching the rockets in Santa Barbara," he wrote. "This one at 3am today felt like 150-160 dB, violently shook our whole house, and really frightened my pregnant wife. I hope they do not get louder :/" December 10, 2025 The whole tone here is unexpectedly sad, from the pensive ellipses at the start of the tweet to the slanty face at the end.
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fromArs Technica
8 months ago

Falcon 9 sonic booms can feel more like seismic waves

The increase in Falcon 9 launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base has led to growing noise complaints among local residents.
Researchers are examining the impact of sonic booms on communities due to increasing launch frequency and changing trajectories.
The ECOBOOM project aims to understand sonic boom effects to better inform the community and launch operations.
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