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The Boeing Starliner just launched into a pre-sunrise cloudless sky.
It was fun to see the black smoke trail change to white as it lifted into the sunlight (pic 1).
It was not as spectacular as the post-sunset launch from California a few months ago. The trajectory became more horizontal after liftoff (pic 3) and the exhaust plume began rapidly expanding in diameter just 1-2 seconds before first stage cutoff (pic 2).
I'm not a photographer, but here is a couple of cell phone shots.
It was fun to see the black smoke trail change to white as it lifted into the sunlight (pic 1).
It was not as spectacular as the post-sunset launch from California a few months ago. The trajectory became more horizontal after liftoff (pic 3) and the exhaust plume began rapidly expanding in diameter just 1-2 seconds before first stage cutoff (pic 2).
I'm not a photographer, but here is a couple of cell phone shots.