West Texas skies lit up shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday morning as a strange object streaked across the sky. Initially, it appeared to be a meteor breaking up in the earth’s atmosphere. But this object was moving too slow and didn’t behave like a typical meteor. Unlike SpaceX, most rocket launch operators do not recover the first stage of their rocket after launch. This rocket, called 2019-079C, is part of the Russian Soyuz launch system and launched at the end of November 2019, sending a military satellite called Kosmos 2542 into orbit.
