I caught a tiny glimpse of this by accident a few minutes ago! I was pulling out of a parking spot and looked out my window and saw it behind some whispy clouds, so I pulled right back into the spot and jumped out but by then it was behind those big clouds. Still cool for the couple seconds I saw it for though.
Because that is not how rockets/orbits work. To be in oribt around a body you need sufficient lateral velocity. Rockets going for orbit start out going vertically up to get above the thick lower atmosphere, but very quickly start a turn to the side to build lateral velocity. If rockets just went straight up they would just come straight back down unless they reached the Earth's escape velocity.
Out here in the N Nevada Great Basin.
You are a really good Mark thanks for all your help.
I caught a tiny glimpse of this by accident a few minutes ago! I was pulling out of a parking spot and looked out my window and saw it behind some whispy clouds, so I pulled right back into the spot and jumped out but by then it was behind those big clouds. Still cool for the couple seconds I saw it for though.
Awesome! We need the rain, but the clouds could have at least gotten out of the way so we could see the launch! lol
@@AzTacoSauce I know lol. Where do you find out when the launches that will be visible are? I want to start paying attention to that.
What are those lights at the end at the bottom right?
Airplanes in the pattern for Sky Harbor.
@AzTacoSauce the one to the far right seemed odd. Came into the screen and turned around quite quickly
Why isn't it going straight up?
Rockets turn when try to reach a orbit
Because that is not how rockets/orbits work. To be in oribt around a body you need sufficient lateral velocity. Rockets going for orbit start out going vertically up to get above the thick lower atmosphere, but very quickly start a turn to the side to build lateral velocity. If rockets just went straight up they would just come straight back down unless they reached the Earth's escape velocity.
Because it's going straight into the ocean.
Firmament