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Four minutes after launching from SpaceX's facility in Boca Chica, Texas on November 18, the Starship's superheavy booster exploded at an altitude of roughly 56 miles after separating from its second stage.explosion minutes later, when the surviving portion of the spaceship reached an altitude of 93 miles, and then combusted itself.
"They had a very large amplitude, but the most unexpected thing was that there were many oscillations and that the waves were propagating in a northerly direction," study lead author Yury Yasyukevich, an atmospheric physicist at Russia's Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics,Then when the explosions followed, the resulting sound waves caused the electrons to "disappear," neutralizing the charge of atoms nearby — thus forming the ionospheric hole that spanned up to 1,200...
As such, the researchers say this is the first documented detection of a non-chemical hole in the ionosphere formed as the result of a man-made explosion.Fortunately, this hole more or less healed after 30 to 40 minutes, the researchers said. Though the circumstances behind this one were unique, these areStarship's fiery demise actually provided a rare glimpse of how the ionosphere is impacted by such events, especially weaker ones, which can be difficult to detect, Yasyukevich said.
And what they've learned so far is puzzling: the researchers didn't expect the size of the disruption to be this big. "It means we don't understand processes which take place in the atmosphere," Yasyukevich
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