{"id":78390,"date":"2025-10-14T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:12:08","slug":"rocket-lab-launches-satellite-at-dawn-stargazers-mystified-by-strange-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78390\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab launches satellite at dawn, stargazers mystified by strange cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">From Whang\u0101rei, down to Auckland, Hawke\u2019s Bay and Tauranga, people shared photos of the cloud and its long, wispy tail that followed. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Wispy clouds were spotted in many parts of the North Island after the launch, this was seen in the Kaimais, Tauranga. Photo \/ Alice Campbell\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Wispy clouds were spotted in many parts of the North Island after the launch, this was seen in the Kaimais, Tauranga. Photo \/ Alice Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson from Rocket Lab said the strange orb-shaped cloud that many saw is called a \u201cspace jellyfish\u201d, a phenomenon that can happen when sunlight reflects off the exhaust plume from the rocket\u2019s engines. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"What many people likely saw was a space jellyfish - a phenomenon that can happen when sunlight reflects off the exhaust plume from the rocket\u2019s engines. Photo \/ Aaron Bennett\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>What many people likely saw was a space jellyfish &#8211; a phenomenon that can happen when sunlight reflects off the exhaust plume from the rocket\u2019s engines. Photo \/ Aaron Bennett<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">This is Rocket Lab\u2019s 15th launch this year and 73rd launch overall. \u201cOwl New World\u201d was just one of 21 upcoming missions to deploy Synspective\u2019s Earth-imaging constellation before the end of the decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Whang\u0101rei, down to Auckland, Hawke\u2019s Bay and Tauranga, people shared photos of the cloud and its long,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,60810,1975,3595,6162,2516,8984,71,305,2514,7189,1739,1073,60809,111,43,139,529,69,1523,11673,60811,530,13650,4029,13660,8861,1072,60808,2189,19554,165,9857],"class_list":["post-78390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-amazement","tag-at","tag-by","tag-cloud","tag-concern","tag-dawn","tag-from","tag-have","tag-island","tag-lab","tag-launches","tag-media","tag-mystified","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-phenomenon","tag-predawn","tag-residents","tag-rocket","tag-satellite","tag-sharing","tag-sky","tag-social","tag-stargazers","tag-strange","tag-taken","tag-their","tag-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}