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STS-125 Launch Camera Videos (6 cameras)

SRB Camera snapshot - STS-125Awesome 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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Russian Booster Rocket Re-Entry – Live Video Footage

MyFox (Fox 31), a local TV station in Denver, Colorado, got lucky when their helicopter traffic monitor crew captured live video of space debris breaking up in the early morning sky. The video is beautiful, and the reactions from the pilot and anchors are great :-)
You can view the video from the MyFox website (Space Debris Breaks Up on LIVE TV) or grab a local copy from this site (7mb flash video file, which you can view with the latest version of VLC Media Player).
This was not a meteor – this was most likely video footage of a spent Russian booster rocket burning up on re-entry:

“A spent Russian booster rocket re-entered the atmosphere Thursday over Colorado and Wyoming, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said. NORAD spokesman Sean Kelly said the agency was trying to confirm a report that a piece of the rocket may have hit the ground near Riverton, Wyoming, at about 6 a.m. Kelly said military personnel had not yet reached the scene. No damage was reported and the debris was not believed to be hazardous, NORAD said. Eyewitnesses reported seeing flaming objects in the sky at the time the rocket was re-entering, Kelly said.”

Slashdot – Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming
CNN – NORAD looking for Russian rocket in Wyoming

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