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A sonic boom does not occur only at the moment an object crosses the sound barrier and neither is it heard in all directions emanating from the supersonic object. Rather, the boom is a continuous effect that occurs while the object is traveling at supersonic speeds and affects only observers that are positioned at a point that intersects a ...
Sonic booms occur because an object traveling at supersonic speeds compresses the air in front of it, and the quick compression of air molecules creates a shock wave that triggers a sudden ...
The solar wind's equivalent of a sonic boom in the solar-system plasma medium can accelerate protons up to millions of miles per minute – as much as 40 percent of the speed of light. [citation needed] This is a proven source of auroras, but has never yet been shown to be sufficiently forceful and sufficiently abrupt to cause a "boom".
A sonic boom is a shock-wave, or pressure disturbance, caused by the movement of the plane through the air, much like the wave produced by the bow of a ship as it moves through water: just as the bow wave is produced for the entire journey of the ship, so the sonic shockwave occurs throughout the duration of a supersonic flight.
Nov. 26—A team of Brigham Young University researchers measuring noise levels during SpaceX's Oct. 13 Starship Super Heavy launch from Boca Chica found that associated overpressure events had ...
Sonic booms, which occur when aircraft exceed the speed of sound, create more of a pulse, instead of a wave, he said. ... “You don’t have sonic booms very often, because the aircraft folks ...
The boom caused by Concorde generated substantial public opposition in the United States and eventually in other countries around the world. This opposition made it impossible for Concorde to be a commercial success. [citation needed] The sonic boom issue was also a significant factor in the eventual cancellation of the Boeing 2707. [1]
The sonic booms, Titus said at the time, occurred when SpaceX rockets landed at Vandenberg, which he said happened about four or five times a year. More often, he said, the rockets return to a ...