Even plainer language: Rocket exhaust can have impact with atmosphere, we need to study it more on short and long term effects.
Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5
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Re: Circular Shock Acoustic Waves in Ionosphere Triggered by Launch of Formosat‐5
#92I'm taking the liberty of reworking their "plain language summary." I aimed for maintaining accuracy with relaxed precision, but please correct me if I've lost too much of either in the process. I corrected a specific bit of imprecision in language in the source's plaintext summary not clearly distinguishing between vertical/y v. vertical/z, something the technical abstract clarified by stating "vertical altitude." -…
hmm, I put your "plainest" language answer into XKCD simple writer, and there was some complexity in there. In most simple language, the space truck was thrown up, not tossed forward, and this caused a sound wave that was followed with some interesting events in one of the high bits of the sky, between the space truck refuse air and the hotter-than-air stuff in the high sky, all of which need further study because of…