Horizons mission - Soyuz: launch to orbit

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This unique video shows a full launch of the Soyuz MS-09: from liftoff to orbit. Watch the launch from inside the crew capsule with first-ever shots from outside the spacecraft recorded by cameras fixed to the exterior of the Soyuz. The intense launch lasts less than ten minutes whereby the Soyuz spacecraft is propelled 1640 km and gains 210 km altitude. Every second for nine minutes, the spacecraft accelerates 50 km/h on average as the rocket’s boosters burn their fuel and are discarded. See the astronaut’s reactions and what the spacecraft looks like as the main steps are carried out to get into orbit: -00:12 Launch command issued -00:10 Engine turbopumps at flight speed -00:05 Engines at maximum thrust 00:00 Launch +1:54 Separation of emergency rescue system +1:57 First stage separation +2:38 Fairing separation +4:48 Second stage separation +4:58 Tail adapter separation +8:45 Third stage engine cut off having arrived in orbit +8:49 Soyuz separation, deploy solar arrays and antennae The astronauts, from left to right, are NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev and ESA astronaut and flight engineer Alexander Gerst launched in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station on 6 June 2018. ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and ESA television host Richard Hollingham provide commentary taken from the live event. Hunched in their Sokol flight suits that offer protection in case of f

Published 2018-06-25 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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