Astronomy Picture of the Day - Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station

NASA ^ | 5 Jan, 2025 | Video Credit: ISAA, NASA, Expedition 57 Crew (ISS); Processing: Riccardo Rossi (ISAA, AstronautiCAST

[MtnClimber]

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 in November 2018 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 celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023. Astronauts who live aboard the Earth-orbiting ISS 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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[broken_clock]

Spectacular 👍

[NautiNurse]

That video is awe inspiring!

[kinsman redeemer]

Very cool.
Thanks.

[rlmorel]

Pretty cool. Interesting though...I cannot get it to play without turning off my VPN. Seems to be a lot of places doing that now.

Tried multiple times with different browsers, cleared caches, no luck. Turned off VPN, and it connected right up.

[Hebrews 11:6]

That videophotography was out of this world!

[metmom]

Cool.

[GaltAdonis]

Cool vid MC!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Played fine for me with ExpressVPN. But I’ve observed what you have, too...more sites blocking VPN connections.

[rlmorel]

I have ExpressVPN too, and when you said that I tried one more thing-changing my VPN jump off point. That worked. So it was an issue with the VPN gateway I was using.

Thanks!

[normbal]

I just can’t figure out how all that happens on a flat earth.

It’s all AI, right?

WARNING: the preceding comment NOT intended for the satirically-challenged Freeper.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That’s interesting that just changing the location worked. Good to know.

[Bullish]

Really really really COOL!

[telescope115]

That is pretty cool!

[Glad2bnuts]

Amazing what they can do now with CGI.

[rlmorel]

Yes...never occurred to me before. I occasionally get things where an image doesn’t load or that kind of thing. One more arrow in the quiver to try!

[mitch5501]

Beautiful. Loved the musical accompaniment

[Paul R.]

We have a candidate for explaining away the Coriolis effect, below... ;-)