At https://spaceweather.com … June 1st 2026 … and the story continues at https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/06/nasa-confirms-75000-mph-meteor-boston/ …. a meteor exploded over eastern North America, with possibly as much as energy as 300 tons of TNT. At the time it was cloudy, with the occasional storm or one on the brew. People viewed as a sudden brightening behind those clouds. The explosion was captured by the GOES-19 satellite. The meteor exploded at a height of 32 kilometres. Therefore it was high in the atmosphere. It is estimated between one and two metres across when intact. In spite of its height it produced a shock wave that is said to have shook buildings. Enough to create human curiosity. According to NASA it was moving at 75,000 mph when it collided with Earth’s atmosphere.
An update on Phys Org a day later has dash cam of the event. Also, NASA revised their take. Apparently the fireball was as heavy as an elephant and five feet wide [1.52 metres across]. The amount of energy is also reduced, to 230 tons of TNT. See https://phys.org/news/2026-06-meteor-heavy-elephant-widespread-speculation.html ….
One point worth noting here is that people went so far as to report details to the US Geological Survey, registering the shaking they felt with the National Earthquake Information Centre. One may assume that an explosion lower in the atmosphere, as at Tall el-Hammam, could have generated earthquakes on the route of the shock wave.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/electromagnetic-catapults-on-the-moon/ … lunar electromagnetic catapults promise to facilitate improvements in space logistics. There is also a possible military use at some point in the future. The idea is to make redundant rockets and rocket fuel,