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    FTI-03 [Image 6 of 7]

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    A long-exposure nighttime photograph captures a missile or rocket launch, visible as a bright luminous arc streaking across a star-filled sky. In the foreground stands a large white military facility structure, consistent in appearance with a missile defense radar or command installation. The image appears to document a missile defense system test, likely associated with the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense program.

    KAUAI, HAWAII, UNITED STATES

    12.10.2018

    Photo by Mark Wright 

    Missile Defense Agency

    The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Sailors manning the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test Complex (AAMDTC) at the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) at Kauai, Hawaii, successfully conducted Flight Test Integrated-03 (FTI-03).

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    Date Taken: 12.10.2018
    Date Posted: 12.11.2018 11:47
    Photo ID: 4964674
    VIRIN: 181210-A-AB123-005
    Resolution: 4928x3280
    Size: 4.83 MB
    Location: KAUAI, HAWAII, US
    Web Views: 745
    Downloads: 121

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    The image shows a spacecraft or capsule descending under three deployed parachutes against a hazy blue sky. The parachutes appear to be white/silver ring-sail or ringsail-type chutes commonly used in crewed space capsule recovery operations. The capsule is suspended below the parachute cluster via visible suspension lines.
    A nighttime rocket or missile launch is captured mid-ignition, with a bright white and orange plume of fire and smoke rising from the launch pad. The scene is almost entirely dark except for the intense illumination produced by the engine exhaust. Two vertical support structures or lightning towers flank the launch site on either side.
    A rocket launch captured at night, showing the vehicle ascending with a bright exhaust plume illuminating the surrounding darkness. A large billowing cloud of smoke and steam is visible near the base, indicating recent liftoff from a launch pad. The image is predominantly dark with the rocket and its exhaust serving as the primary light sources.
    A rocket launch captured at night, showing a bright vertical plume of fire and exhaust smoke against a completely dark background. The intense luminosity of the engine exhaust dominates the frame, illuminating surrounding smoke clouds. The rocket itself is largely obscured by the brightness of the exhaust trail.
    A long-exposure night photograph captures the complete arc of a rocket or missile launch, showing a bright luminous trail that rises vertically and curves back downward in a parabolic arc. The extended exposure time has also recorded star trails as short streaks across the dark sky. The launch site is visible at the bottom center of the frame, illuminated by the intense exhaust glow.
    A long-exposure nighttime photograph captures a missile or rocket launch, visible as a bright luminous arc streaking across a star-filled sky. In the foreground stands a large white military facility structure, consistent in appearance with a missile defense radar or command installation. The image appears to document a missile defense system test, likely associated with the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense program.
    The image shows a false-color astronomical or scientific visualization of an energetic emission source, likely an X-ray or radio observation of a galaxy, nebula, or explosive astrophysical event. A bright white-yellow core dominates the center, surrounded by radiating lobes and diffuse emission rendered in a heat-map color scale from white (most intense) through yellow, orange, red, to blue (least intense). The irregular, asymmetric morphology suggests jets, outflows, or shock-heated gas extending outward from the central source.

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    Aegis
    MDA
    Missile Defense Agency
    Aegis Ashore
    FTI-03
    Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA interceptor

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