Starship Will Soon Fly Over Towns and Cities, but Will Dodge the Biggest Ones
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SpaceX's Starship is expected to fly over various towns and cities, sparking both excitement and concern among residents in its flight path, particularly in northern Mexico.
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It is likely that you saw other rockets (Falcon 9 being the most frequently launched). The "slow-forming starburst" is most likely from the exhaust plume in vacuum; once the rocket is high enough to no longer be in earth's shadow the plume catches sunlight and becomes very visible on the ground to an observer in darkness. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_jellyfish
ref: https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/03/31/live-coverage-spacex-t...
On one hand, it will be cool to look for starships in the sky; on the other, I don't want the risk of crashing starships in my city, at least not after seeing how biased against Mexican territory the path is.