{"id":1542,"date":"2025-02-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/falcon-9-rocket-flies-over-the-dominican-republic-february-18-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:59","slug":"falcon-9-rocket-flies-over-the-dominican-republic-february-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/falcon-9-rocket-flies-over-the-dominican-republic-february-18-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 Rocket Flies Over the Dominican Republic &#8212; February 18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xzQ7I2Dc9Bc?si=3_7OOOXjN-wXrLsy?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Roboto, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b>Just 30 minutes prior to this, my wife Elisa happened to see on Instagram a map showing the flight path of the Falcon 9. We didn&#8217;t know that this was coming! I checked and got a live feed from Cape Canaveral of the launch. I figured we might see something if we looked to the north-west. Wow, did we. The Falcon 9 put on an amazing display. <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/fireball-meteor-over-dominican-republic.html\">On January 25, 2025 we had seen a meteor-bolide fireball on a similar track.<\/a> That was quite something, but this was really amazing. You can hear our excitement in the audio.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"Roboto, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;\"><b> Thr bright object is Venus. The rocket appears to turn off its engines shortly after (from our point of view) it passes Venus.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 30 minutes prior to this, my wife Elisa happened to see on Instagram a map showing the flight path of the Falcon 9. We didn&#8217;t know that this was coming! I checked and got a live feed from Cape Canaveral of the launch. I figured we might see something if we looked to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/falcon-9-rocket-flies-over-the-dominican-republic-february-18-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Falcon 9 Rocket Flies Over the Dominican Republic &#8212; February 18, 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-dominican-republic","category-rockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}