APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

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APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by APOD Robot » Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:05 am

Image Rocket Launch as Seen from the International Space Station

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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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by Astronymus » Sun Jan 05, 2025 9:43 am

Is that a meteor at 1:15 something?
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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by Alietr » Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:12 pm

I was wondering about the red flashes around 1:17.

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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by johnnydeep » Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:45 pm

Astronymus wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 9:43 am Is that a meteor at 1:15 something?
Most likely.
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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by johnnydeep » Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:46 pm

Alietr wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:12 pm I was wondering about the red flashes around 1:17.
Assuming this video was shot from within the ISS by an astronaut, it looks like reflections of flashing lights on the ISS itself?
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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by Dellok » Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:27 pm

A beautiful, moving portrait of Earthlings struggling to space, albeit via an unsustainable method we might have time to replace.

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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by Alietr » Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:30 pm

johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:46 pm
Alietr wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:12 pm I was wondering about the red flashes around 1:17.
Assuming this video was shot from within the ISS by an astronaut, it looks like reflections of flashing lights on the ISS itself?
That's a possibility, but they are moving with the Earth; if they were a reflection of something on the ISS, they presumably would have moved along the Earth.

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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by johnnydeep » Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:35 pm

Alietr wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:30 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:46 pm
Alietr wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:12 pm I was wondering about the red flashes around 1:17.
Assuming this video was shot from within the ISS by an astronaut, it looks like reflections of flashing lights on the ISS itself?
That's a possibility, but they are moving with the Earth; if they were a reflection of something on the ISS, they presumably would have moved along the Earth.
Hmm, you're right. Which makes this more mysterious!
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Post by Tekija » Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:04 pm

johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:35 pm
Alietr wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:30 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:46 pm

Assuming this video was shot from within the ISS by an astronaut, it looks like reflections of flashing lights on the ISS itself?
That's a possibility, but they are moving with the Earth; if they were a reflection of something on the ISS, they presumably would have moved along the Earth.
Hmm, you're right. Which makes this more mysterious!
It has been suggested they were from large power lines then under construction around the city of Zalantun in Northwest China, possibly due to warning lights in the pylons. At least that seems to be the corresponding region.

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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by johnnydeep » Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:21 pm

Tekija wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:04 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:35 pm
Alietr wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:30 pm

That's a possibility, but they are moving with the Earth; if they were a reflection of something on the ISS, they presumably would have moved along the Earth.
Hmm, you're right. Which makes this more mysterious!
It has been suggested they were from large power lines then under construction around the city of Zalantun in Northwest China, possibly due to warning lights in the pylons. At least that seems to be the corresponding region.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questio ... e-iss-in-t
Sounds possible, but these lights seem HUGE and would have to be pretty strong to be seen from the ISS, no?
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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by Alietr » Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:01 pm

Pretty tall pylons if they were warning the ISS away!

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Re: APOD: Rocket Launch as Seen from the ISS (2025 Jan 05)

Post by Astronymus » Mon Jan 06, 2025 12:51 pm

johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:21 pm
Tekija wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:04 pm
johnnydeep wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:35 pm

Hmm, you're right. Which makes this more mysterious!
It has been suggested they were from large power lines then under construction around the city of Zalantun in Northwest China, possibly due to warning lights in the pylons. At least that seems to be the corresponding region.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questio ... e-iss-in-t
Sounds possible, but these lights seem HUGE and would have to be pretty strong to be seen from the ISS, no?
Zalantun Genghis Khan Airport, being surrounded by those powerlines, may be the reason for this excessive illumination.
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