May 21st, 2009
Awesome camera footage from 6 of the cameras attached to the two Solid Rocket Boosters and external propellant tank of the Shuttle – from lift-off to splashdown in the ocean – on mission STS-125.The video is 35 minutes in length, so being the obsessive I am I flagged the times of the more interesting moments as well as the switch to each camera.
Interesting times, camera 1 (SRB Left Aft):
- 2:24 -
detach - Much
tumbling - 5:07 -
you can see something else falling into the atmosphere and starting to burn up
(the other SRB I assume) - 5:30 -
start to stabilise, or at least less flipping end over end - 6:15 – in
cloud - 6:50 -
glimpse the deployed parachutes (looking up) - 7:07 -
splash
Camera 2 (SRB Lr Intertank):
- This
camera has a microphone, so make sure
you have audio enabled – eerie stuff - 7:17 – camera view starts
- 7:48 -
detach (watch an SRB rotate in sync with us) - Amazing
views and eerie sounds – the white specks are apparently unburned propellant - 10:30 – quick view of a smoking SRM entering the atmosphere, more atmospheric noise now
- 11:30
skip to upward view of deployed chutes - 11:50 -
splashdown, and we fall over. Gurgling.
Camera 3 (SRB Left Forward, facing down):
- 12:08 -
launch at t-10 (facing down, great launch view) - 14:30 -
detach - Camera
view is unfortunately fogged :( - 17:03 -
view clears somewhat, beautiful Earth views - More
stable now, view mostly down. - 18:20 -
some puffs / fire from the exhaust, this thing is still burning - Parachute
deployed? - 18:30 -
ocean through the clouds - 19:15 -
splash, fall over, cool
Camera 4 (SRB Right Aft, facing up):
- 19:40 -
footage starts of launch - 21:58 -
detach, bye bye shuttle - Rest of
video cut short
Camera 5 (SRB Rt Intertank – like the other intertank camera
has a microphone feed):
- 22:22
starts - 22:56 -
detach - Beautiful
falling / tumbling views of earth - 25:25 -
things get noisy - 26:05 -
mic feed stops, view mostly down now - 26:40 -
skip to parachute deployment, facing up, looking almost straight into the sun - 27:12 -
splash. Get to see the chutes falling into the sea and collapsing
Camera 6 (SRB Right Forward):
- 28:18 -
footage starts, probably the best launch footage of the down view - 30:41 -
detach - View
fogged :( - Sun-earth-sun-earth-etc
:) - 33:17
clearer view briefly, more stable - 34:35
parachute? Ocean incoming - 35:17 -
splashdown, splash reaches camera
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