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Progress Launch Timelapse Seen from Space

posted by martyb on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the why-is-that-rocket-headed-straight-at-me? dept.
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upstart writes in with a submission via IRC for SoyCow1984:

Progress Launch Timelapse Seen From Space:

Timelapse of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft launched on 16 November 2018 at 18:14 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station.

The spacecraft was launched atop a Soyuz rocket with 2564 kg of cargo and supplies. Flying at 28 800 km/h, 400 km high, the International Space Station requires regular supplies from Earth such as this Progress launch. Spacecraft are launched after the Space Station flies overhead so they catch up with the orbital outpost to dock, in this case two days later on 18 November 2018.

The images were taken from the European-built Cupola module with a camera set to take pictures at regular intervals. The pictures are then played quickly after each other at 8 to 16 times normal speed. The video shows around 15 minutes of the launch at normal speed.

The Progress spacecraft delivered food, fuel and supplies, including about 750 kg of propellant, 75 kg of oxygen and air and 440 l of water. Some notable moments in this video are:
00:07 Soyuz-FG rocket booster separation.
00:19 Core stage separation.
00:34 Core stage starts burning in the atmosphere as it returns to Earth after having spent all its fuel.
00:39 Progress spacecraft separates from rocket and enters orbit to catch up with the International Space Station.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:02AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:02AM (#766108)

    glowing from the city lights below. Yuck!

    There's no clear air anymore... *sigh*

    • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Sunday November 25 2018, @11:43AM (1 child)

      by zocalo (302) on Sunday November 25 2018, @11:43AM (#766134)
      If you're talking about the orange band that appears to mark the upper limit of atmosphere, that's not smog. It's far too high for that anyway (smog is mostly particulates and forms low-level pollution), and is probably an effect known as "airglow" or chemiluminescence, a process by which some naturally occuring molecules in the upper atmosphere absorb energy from the Sun during the day and slowly release it as light at night.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:51PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @07:51PM (#766247)

        Airglow is increased by yucky humans?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:54AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 25 2018, @08:54AM (#766113) Journal

    First time I watched it, I got distracted by the first stage breaking away. Took a couple seconds to get back on track with the real launch, lol. No matter, it's just beautiful. Too bad we're not seeing colonists going up by the hundreds yet.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @03:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 25 2018, @03:25PM (#766170)

      The sooner the better. As long as us losers get to stay behind here on Earth.

  • (Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Monday November 26 2018, @01:04PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 26 2018, @01:04PM (#766433) Journal

    ...if you can't hear screams?
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    I love the percussion (sound effect?) timed exactly with the core stage separation. That would have been appropriate in a big screen production.
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    And better writeup than my sub, so i can't even ninja gripe with any enthusiasm.

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