For instance, most sonic booms have two shock waves, but the Falcon 9 booster produces a boom with three shocks as it descends through the atmosphere after launch. Gee co-authored a paper earlier ...

Languages: English. A SpaceX spacecraft has caused a sonic boom over California as it returned to Earth's atmosphere, and some on social media initially mistook the sound for an earthquake.

A sonic boom caused shattered windows across the small town of Globe, about 100 miles north of Tucson. An Air National Guard F-16 pilot who took off from the Tucson International Airport ...

Southern California residents heard a sonic boom on Saturday. It was caused by SpaceX Dragon spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere. The spacecraft carried research and supplies from the ...

A SpaceX vehicle that has spent about a month docked at the International Space Station on a resupply mission triggered a sonic boom as it made landing off the coast of California on Saturday ...

LOS ANGELES (KCAL, KCBS) — Most of Southern California felt the shaking from a brief sonic boom created as SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday night.