Can anyone more educated on space flight tell me what the 2 dots between the separated parts of the rocket are here? I saw this in person and found it interesting that these two white dots appeared together and stayed right between the glow at the front, and the stage separation at the back.
by jPup_VR
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[https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/8wqXSdhb9o5L.png?o=1](https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/8wqXSdhb9o5L.png?o=1)
Screenshot for reference, the two dots at the center.
Submission statement: I’m sharing this to help us all get better at identifying what is and isn’t anomalous. I saw this in person and these two dots stood out to me, I was only expecting to see the rocket and the stage separation. I’m not saying these are anomolous necessarily, just trying to better understand so we don’t get more posts of SpaceX saying ‘look, a UFO!’, or someone seeing this phenomenon in the video and doing the same.
Those are called “fairings”. They are these panels that cover the payload of the rocket, and are detached and allowed to fall back to Earth when they are no longer needed.