File talk:ORBCOMM-2 (23815832891).jpg

For what it's worth, the most relevant (and new in the history of human technology) aspects of the phenomenon captured in this long-exposure photograph are only incidentally associated with the particular orbital payload for this SpaceX launch. That is to say, the file title added by the editor who added the image, is a bit misleading.

It is correct that the launch was of ORBCOMM OG2, mission 2 (the second multi-satellite launch of the second generation ORBCOMM satellites). But the historical nature of this photograph is the two additional engine firings that are seen in the photo, the re-entry burn and the landing burn, that were a part of the physics maneuvers necessary to bring the booster rocket back to the launch site. I have added several annotations to the photo to help other editors understand what is happening in the photo.

It may therefore be useful, someday, to name the photograph accordingly. The main article for this particular launch, and its historic first in human technology development, is w:Falcon 9 Flight 20. Not a very catchy name; but this flight was slated to make this historic "return to the launch site attempt long before the particular ORBCOMM sats became associated with the launch. Cheers. N2e (talk) 23:40, 24 December 2015 (UTC)