This is the Next Level of Go-Pro! Special Camera Catches Spectacular Launch of Soyuz Rocket
By the end of the year, two more rockets will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome. In 2019, there'll be more launches. This was reported today by Roscosmos several hours later after successfully launching the Soyuz rocket carrier with 11 satellites on board. All of them already reached the final orbit.
Our correspondent Pavel Melnik watched the launch.
I can't come close. According to the Vostochny cosmodrome safety requirements, people can only watch the rocket launch from several kilometers away. The Russia-1 viewers will see it like if they were very close, some steps away from the launching pad. A unique VGTRK development is a system of cameras that can withstand a huge thermocline from -50 centigrades in the waiting mode to +500 centigrades during the launch. Nothing will hide from the camera.
Flames come out of the nozzle. You can synchronize your watches with the rocket, 5:07, Moscow time. That's when the best corridor opens for a space flight. Soyuz 2-1A goes into the sky to settle quite earthly problems.
Dangerous emissions to the atmosphere or new forest fires. Cosmic machines Canopus 3 and 4 will notify earthlings about the danger. There are such satellites on orbit but for the monitoring system to cover the whole earth surface, the group needed strengthening.
- 60 seconds, the flight is going well.
The rocket left but specialists were nervous some more hours about whether it was going in the right direction. The information about the upper stage is gathered through the whole movement trajectory. There's a mobile measuring points network from the cosmodrome to the Russian polar borders. Roscosmos secured itself against repeating the mistakes of the past.
In November, a failure of the same ship's system led to losing the head end of the carrier.
Igor Komarov, Roscosmos CEO: "The launch was successful, and by now, the upper stage has finished its program on carrying the ship".
That's the third launch on the Vostochny cosmodrome. This launch opens new perspectives for the cosmic industry of the country.
Pavel Melnik, Yury Marchenko, Semyon Shapchenko, and Oleg Dubinin, Vesti, Vesti, Vostochny cosmodrome, the Amur Oblast.