SpaceX Falcon 9 Flyby

I glanced out a window last night and saw this brilliant spectacle unfurl as the second stage of a Falcon 9 traversed the sky west of Phoenix at an altitude of 90 miles and ground speed reaching more than 10,000mph:

Since this was shortly after sunset, the exhaust plume was high enough to be illuminated by the sun from over the horizon. (Here’s SpaceX’s video and mission summary.)

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