An airplane pilot captured incredible footage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch from the cockpit of a business jet on the evening of Tuesday, February 4.X user @jetpeter1 told Storyful he recorded this footage over North Carolina. He
posted the video with the caption, “I snagged the SpaceX racing past our jet last night from 39,000 feet over NC coastal areas, some 800 miles north of Cape Canaveral. 2 min after liftoff or something incredible like that.”According to
SpaceX, the rocket carried
two Maxar earth-imaging satellites.“This was the fourth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched GOES-U and two Starlink missions,” a SpaceX blog post said. Credit: @jetpeter1 via Storyful