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12-23-2017, 12:00 PM
No LA, it's not aliens. It's a SpaceX rocket launch.
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Look up. Is it a bird? A plane? Aliens?
It's definitely not aliens (http://mashable.com/2017/02/21/nasa-announcement-not-aliens/), but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is trolling concerned Los Angeles residents and celebrities who noticed something eerie in the early evening sky Friday.
It was definitely aliens
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2017 (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/944382221435019264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Many assumed the strange shape and smoke were from an alien spaceship or a UFO.*
But relax, it was a planned launch from the nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base. At 5:27 p.m., the Iridium-4 satellite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdjCwo6d3Q) was launched as part of a series to form the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation.
SpaceX is launching 75 of 81 new Iridium satellites that will be part of the low-Earth orbit network. The satellites are set to deploy about an hour after launch. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/22/spacex-satellite-launch-reaction-socal/)
More about Space (http://mashable.com/space/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Spacex (http://mashable.com/category/spacex/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Satellites (http://mashable.com/category/satellites/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Launch (http://mashable.com/category/launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Iridium 4 (http://mashable.com/category/iridium-4/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Xc-HKanNws0
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Look up. Is it a bird? A plane? Aliens?
It's definitely not aliens (http://mashable.com/2017/02/21/nasa-announcement-not-aliens/), but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is trolling concerned Los Angeles residents and celebrities who noticed something eerie in the early evening sky Friday.
It was definitely aliens
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 23, 2017 (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/944382221435019264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Many assumed the strange shape and smoke were from an alien spaceship or a UFO.*
But relax, it was a planned launch from the nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base. At 5:27 p.m., the Iridium-4 satellite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdjCwo6d3Q) was launched as part of a series to form the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation.
SpaceX is launching 75 of 81 new Iridium satellites that will be part of the low-Earth orbit network. The satellites are set to deploy about an hour after launch. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/22/spacex-satellite-launch-reaction-socal/)
More about Space (http://mashable.com/space/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Spacex (http://mashable.com/category/spacex/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Satellites (http://mashable.com/category/satellites/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Launch (http://mashable.com/category/launch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Iridium 4 (http://mashable.com/category/iridium-4/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/Xc-HKanNws0