It’s interesting, and I wonder why the plasma isn’t a steady stream and instead it looks like it’s patchy. Anybody know why that is?
Dodis on
How do they harvest it for all the plasma tv’s?
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Looks so eerily similar to scene from interstellar when they travel through the wormhole. The amount of stuff interstellar got right before real life is stunning!
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Are all the small “sparks” that we see parts of the heat shield getting disintegrated/ablated slowly over time?
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Reentering from low Earth orbit at Mach 25. The W-3 capsule landed at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia on May 13, 2025.
Credit: Varda Space Industries
Plasma is like that one friend not quite solid, not quite gas… just vibing in between
Looks so so cool to actually see.
Why is it spinning so much? Shouldn’t reentry be more controlled than this?
Plasma, the thinking man’s fire.
I love it when real life looks like a science fiction movie!
Fantastic and happily unresourced by humans : )
Curious how the camera can withstand all that heat.
Why is it all in short square like blocks like that? I was expecting long toungs like a fire or more homogeneous glow untill it gets downstream
Who else thought the video is a lot longer than 9 seconds?
Project Hail Mary marketing was insane, wasn’t it?
This is awesome footage, and I’m glad we are getting a massive rise in Re-Entry cams!
All those poor, innocent air molecules getting run over by the capsule.
What is this? GTA in space?
Pronounced “PLAS – MUH” like
[Dr Evil says “MAG – MUH”](https://youtu.be/yVo1S52xdpI)
It’s interesting, and I wonder why the plasma isn’t a steady stream and instead it looks like it’s patchy. Anybody know why that is?
How do they harvest it for all the plasma tv’s?
Looks so eerily similar to scene from interstellar when they travel through the wormhole. The amount of stuff interstellar got right before real life is stunning!
Are all the small “sparks” that we see parts of the heat shield getting disintegrated/ablated slowly over time?
The slomo guys need to get their gear up there…