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Originally Posted by DavidU
It looks like it is an upper stage of a Chinese rocket launched earlier in the morning for polar orbit. As it spins liquid fuel is sprayed out (white spiral)that is lit by the morning sun, and the blue is the last of the burnt fuel. In the video you can see a distant smoke plume that is dissipating in the distance.
Certainly a spectacular sight.
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I doubt it's a Chinese rocket, David. Too close to start with...that boost phase plume doesn't look more than a couple of hundred k's away, which would put it in the White Sea, off the Kola Peninsula. Which is where the Dmitry Donskoi is based (Arkhangel'sk). China is another 6000 miles away.