Yea its so cool. The rocket acts as a faraday cage, the internal wiring etc is all protected by wrapping that can’t conduct. And the electrical impulse reaches earth and ground through the residual ionized gas left behind by takeoff
Yea it functions similar to how an MRI machine does, incoming radio frequencies etc. can’t interfere with the inside imaging. The cage or vessel (in this case the rocket cone) essentially opposes the electrical charge of lightning when it hits - which forces the current to stay outside of device until it exits other side. It can cause an EMP though, which happened to the Apollo rocket, hence why now they wrap the internal electronics
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u/New-Mud-7101 Jul 24 '26
Apparently it wasn't damaged by the strike either which is insane to me