2024年12月24日 · SpaceX is the only company in the world that routinely guides its rockets back to a pinpoint landing after launch, the maneuver that triggers a startling sonic boom. The company mastered that...

2024年12月24日 · In an unprecedented feat, the booster wowed audiences with a precision midair landing in the arms of its launch tower.The stunning spectacle — part of a test flight of SpaceX’s Starship, the most...

2024年8月7日 · Rocket landings never get old, as a new video shows. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo craft toward the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday (Aug. 4). The...

2020年5月18日 · A sonic boom is heard by observers when the shock wave(s) produced by an object moving at supersonic speed passes by them. This is unlikely to happen with a rocket launch since the vehicle is at high altitude and moving away. The rocket produces a shock wave once it goes supersonic, but it probably won't pass by any observers. (figure source)

2024年9月19日 · Sonic booms are not only a marvel of physics but also a distinctive sound during rocket landings. They serve as an audible marker of a rocket’s return, with SpaceX’s Falcon rockets providing a fascinating case study of multiple shockwaves.

2024年11月21日 · A test flight of the megarocket unleashed a massive sonic boom—at least 10 times louder than the roar of a Falcon 9 rocket—as SpaceX sets its sights on launching it up to 100 times a year ...

2024年11月19日 · Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, is roughly ten times as loud as SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. Gee told the New York Times that even miles away, the noise during...

2024年11月18日 · SpaceX’s new Starship rocket far exceeds projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its ...

2024年11月18日 · Pulsipher and Gee, along with four additional BYU collaborators, recently published a paper about noise measurements at Starship’s fifth flight, including the booster landing and sonic boom. The sound was extraordinary: even 10 kilometers away, it was as loud as a rock concert.

Monday's SpaceX twin Falcon 9 missions are slated to become the 11th and 12th orbital rocket launches thus far this year from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... "Hear the sonic boom of a LZ-1 Landing ...