Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida about 90 minutes prior, 12:53 AM UTC April 13, 2025. Second stage is coasting, having already released the starlink satellites. Haziness is venting fuel backlit by the sun, the pulse is a cold gas thruster firing forward to slow the second stage down for eventual re-entry off the coast of South Africa (interestingly this thruster pulse is happening a bit later than the batch that went up last year)
spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-starlink-group-12-17
Trajectory map- flightclub.io/result/3d?llId=cfe2177c-6ff0-4ccb-95d5-c8be3510ea65
Other videos of this phenomenon- youtube.com/playlist?list=PLptcycXEIUvGXRlrgOLb9yFthgQIxBznX
Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida about 90 minutes prior, 12:53 AM UTC April 13, 2025. Second stage is coasting, having already released the starlink satellites. Haziness is venting fuel backlit by the sun, the pulse is a cold gas thruster firing forward to slow the second stage down for eventual re-entry off the coast of South Africa (interestingly this thruster pulse is happening a bit later than the batch that went up last year)
spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-starlink-group-12-17
Trajectory map- flightclub.io/result/3d?llId=cfe2177c-6ff0-4ccb-95d5-c8be3510ea65
Other videos of this phenomenon- youtube.com/playlist?list=PLptcycXEIUvGXRlrgOLb9yFthgQIxBznX
