Photo: Twitter / @dafengcao
With so many rocket launches taking place all over the world, it’s a certainty that most of us have already seen such an event, shot from either the ground or from onboard an airplane. But how many of us have seen a rocket launch being filmed from the edge of space?
On September 7, OneSpace, the Chinese version of Elon Musk's space company, conducted the second in a series of test flights for a new rocket they are developing. At the time of the launch, above the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert, flew the Jilin-1 satellite.
As it passed above, the satellite filmed the launch and the ascent of the OneSpace rocket, as well as the moment it enters a curbed trajectory and then appears to be flying almost horizontally.
According to local online publication Bringing China Closer, the shots you see below have been recorded from an altitude of 535 km (332 miles).
The short clip does not show the entire 200 seconds flight of the rocket. OneSpace’s machine managed to reach an altitude of 35 km (21 miles) and is considered a successful test.
The first launch of the OneSpace rocket took place in May. The stated goal of the mission was to collect data for an undisclosed research project conducted together with the government’s Aviation Industry Corporation.
OneSpace plans to become China’s SpaceX, but the industry is already a crowded one in perhaps the world’s largest of economies.
Back in April, another Chinese company, i-Space, claimed to have sent a single-stage solid-propellant rocket at over the 100 km altitude (62 miles), the limit where Earth is believed to end, and space is considered to begin.
OneSpace plans to focus on launching small satellites for various companies. To achieve that, an improved range of rockets is expected to be presented later in the year.
As it passed above, the satellite filmed the launch and the ascent of the OneSpace rocket, as well as the moment it enters a curbed trajectory and then appears to be flying almost horizontally.
According to local online publication Bringing China Closer, the shots you see below have been recorded from an altitude of 535 km (332 miles).
The short clip does not show the entire 200 seconds flight of the rocket. OneSpace’s machine managed to reach an altitude of 35 km (21 miles) and is considered a successful test.
The first launch of the OneSpace rocket took place in May. The stated goal of the mission was to collect data for an undisclosed research project conducted together with the government’s Aviation Industry Corporation.
OneSpace plans to become China’s SpaceX, but the industry is already a crowded one in perhaps the world’s largest of economies.
Back in April, another Chinese company, i-Space, claimed to have sent a single-stage solid-propellant rocket at over the 100 km altitude (62 miles), the limit where Earth is believed to end, and space is considered to begin.
OneSpace plans to focus on launching small satellites for various companies. To achieve that, an improved range of rockets is expected to be presented later in the year.
Truly god view, Jilin-1 video satellite shot @OneSpace01 OS-X1 suborbital rocket's launch at JSLC this noon. pic.twitter.com/KposRHZc4D
— dafeng cao (@dafengcao) 7 septembrie 2018
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