Science Behind Rocket

Study detects lithium pollution from SpaceX rocket

SpaceX rocket left behind a plume of chemical pollution as it burnt up in the atmosphere

Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

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SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

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Study detects lithium pollution from SpaceX rocket in atmosphere

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Scientists Detect Metallic Pollution in the Atmosphere Linked to SpaceX Rocket Launches

Those dramatic fireballs streaking across European skies on February 19, 2025 weren’t just space debris—they were evidence of a pollution problem most of us never considered.

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Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first time

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Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before'

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Rocket science? 3D printing soft matter in zero gravity

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km before falling back to Earth,

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket creates stunning plume over Florida, capturing the power of space travel

The recent image of the Falcon 9 rocket’s plume, captured during NASA’s Crew-12 mission launch, has taken the world by storm. The stunning nebula-like pattern, a byproduct of the rocket’s intense exhaust,