Video: Rocket launcher looks from the universe

Looking from the universe, the rocket launch process will be more impressive than ever.

We often see missiles launched from the ground and gradually disappear into the air. But in this video, you will see the missile launch event at a completely different angle that so little is known before, that is from space.

This relatively short timelapse video was shot by Planet Satellite, in which the Soyuz rocket was launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome cosmopolitan airport on July 14. According to Vincent Beukelaers, chairman of the Planet, to capture the rocket launched from space, the core problem lies in bringing the satellite to the right place and time.

Rocket launcher looks from space.

'Our Dove system is a tracking satellite, we will direct each satellite to Earth, predicting what will lie below the direction of the satellite when the Earth turns ,' Beukelaers wrote on public blog. When it was about a few hours before the Soyuz launch, we would calculate a satellite to be close to Baikonur Cosmodrome to get the missile launch scene. deploy the mission to direct a satellite to the launch pad. '

The group only had about 5 hours to prepare, but the results were surprising.

The sight is rarely seen when the rocket launches from the universe.

Since high-speed missiles and Dove satellites also travel at speeds of up to 7 km / s, it can only capture a still image every second. The Planet has cut and merged these images, to get the video in just 11 seconds from about 2 and a half minutes of real time. Although short, this video has provided us with an extremely rare sight.