[JoeProBono]

[himno hero]

Obama hit the reset button...

[Yo-Yo]

"I continue to get suggestions that the third-stage spin is a 'feature,' not a malfunction, and may be associated with guidance, or decoy deploy, or enhancing hardness against U.S. boost-phase antimissile weapons," he wrote in an e-mail.

My guess as well, to counter laser based boost phase weapons under development.

[sinanju]

This is apparently a common phenomenon that occurs when a rocket is launched in the pre-dawn or early evening hours.

The ground is in darkness and the sky is dim but the rising or setting sun’s rays spectacularly light up the exhaust plume in the upper atmosphere.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*