for years I thought Dr. Magnusson's rocket from episode 2 went into orbit and rendezvous with black mesa satellite that Gordon launch in half life 1 but that seems so short for a satellite to rendezvous time, but then a few days ago I re-visit white forest map in Gmod and saw this on the screen and now it make sense, the rocket doesn't need to reach orbit, all it gotta do is to get close enough to the satellite long enough for the data transmission, and now it make sense, also it seems pretty un-realistic to make shift a ICBM into a orbital rocket in a short amount of time, so probably it's a sub orbital flight (a trajectory to space but not in orbit that will fall back down), hey shout out to the gnome hopefully he survive the hot atmosphere re-entry, who knows, we might find the rocket wreckage in half life 3 and found our beloved gnome. :D
i might know where the rocket landed if it did fall back down it probably crashed near the citadel remains
ohhh yea your right it launch into the storm direction, thanks for reminding me
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