This isn’t a real video, but a CGI creation. A Russian Soyuz rocket was struck by lightning during a satellite launch in May 2019, and this video is a digital depiction of that. A video is being ...

To study otherwise unpredictable thunder and lightning ... small rockets trailing grounded copper wire into thunderclouds in Florida. The copper wire creates a conductive path for the bolt ...

MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. Lightning struck a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Glonass-M navigation satellite during its blastoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in north Russia, Chief of the Plesetsk ...