{"id":272101,"date":"2025-11-05T02:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:11:07","slug":"did-you-see-it-ariane-6-rocket-creates-dazzling-scene-in-the-sky-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/272101\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you see it? Ariane 6 rocket creates dazzling scene in the sky Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sight in the sky was from Europe&#8217;s Ariane 6 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 The full moon wasn&#8217;t the only scene in the sky over Maine Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Around 6 p.m., some saw the exhaust plume from Europe&#8217;s Ariane 6 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>It launched from French Guiana today at 4:02 p.m. EST, carrying the Sentinel-1D Earth-observation satellite. The launch and deployment were successful.<\/p>\n<p>The spiral we saw was its exhaust plume, lit up by the sun at a high altitude.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/article\/news\/local\/207\/207-interview\/maine-writer-shares-unique-stories-about-astronaut-michael-collins\/97-f3718fd3-7fb9-4cf7-9dfa-189859dbe18e\" class=\"cms__embed-related-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maine writer shares unique stories about astronaut Michael Collins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s launch was the fourth for Ariane 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During its most recent launch on Aug. 13, the swirl in the sky was also visible over the northeast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As more advanced rockets are launched into space, and more frequently, sights like these will become more common.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscentermaine.com\/app\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"isPasted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">For the latest breaking news, weather, and traffic alerts, download the NEWS CENTER Maine mobile app<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sight in the sky was from Europe&#8217;s Ariane 6 rocket. PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 The full moon wasn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-272101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}