by APOD Robot » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:07 am
Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station
Explanation: Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of
the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the
International Space Station (ISS). The
Russian
Soyuz-FG rocket was launched ten days ago from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan, carrying a
Progress MS-10 (also
71P) module to bring needed supplies to the ISS. Highlights in the
90-second video (condensing about 15-minutes) include city lights and clouds
visible on the Earth on the lower left, blue and gold bands of
atmospheric airglow running diagonally across the center, and distant stars on the upper right that set behind the Earth. A lower stage can be seen
falling back to Earth as the robotic supply ship fires its thrusters and begins to
close on the ISS, a
space laboratory that is
celebrating its
20th anniversary this month. Currently,
three astronauts live aboard the
Earth-orbiting ISS, and conduct, among more practical duties,
numerous science experiments that expand human knowledge and enable
future commercial industry in
low Earth orbit.
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