Progress launch timelapse seen from space

[Baz]

ENJOY!
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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.
00:34:05 Core stage starts burning in the atmosphere as it returns to Earth after having spent all its fuel.
00:34:19 Progress spacecraft separates from rocket and enters orbit to catch up with the International Space Station.

[drcoastline]

WOW, very cool.

[Craig T]

Super cool! Thanks Baz

[GH85Carrera]

Yea. that is cool.

But but but, how than that video be real is the earth is flat? It mush be all computer graphics and special effects.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Yea. that is cool.

But but but, how than that video be real is the earth is flat? It mush be all computer graphics and special effects.

The way to tell the real rockets from the fake ones is .. .the real ones go up really fast!

[sammyg2]

Two of the girls who speak in this video (1:06) are on the same base 11 team as my son.

http://base11spacechallenge.org/

[island911]

Cool.

Do they know about Mentos and Coke?

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by island911

Cool.

Do they know about Mentos and Coke?

SHHHHH!
Yer not supposed to tell anyone .....



Serial, here's some info on the liquid fueled rocket motor the students at that engineering school been developing over several years. It was made for a previous challenge, but the challenges have grown nearly every year and the same technology is adapted and used.




https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/UCSD-Students-3D-Rocket-Engine-Tested-in-Mojave-Desert-300686761.html

[sammyg2]

From a previous low-altitude challenge (2016):

[sammyg2]

[sammyg2]

Here's another the school's engineering student rocket club launched (solid fuel):