Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Ракеты Фалкон и Редстоун http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1905940/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Matt Haskell
Explanation:
In a photo from the early hours of July 29 (UTC),
a Redstone rocket and Mercury capsule
are on display at Cape Canaveral
Launch Complex
5.
Beyond the Redstone, the 8 minute long exposure has
captured the arcing launch streak of a SpaceX
Falcon Heavy rocket.
The
Falcon's heavy
communications satellite payload, at a record setting 9 metric tons,
is bound for
geosynchronous orbit
some 22,000 miles above planet Earth.
The historic launch of a Redstone rocket
carried astronaut
Alan
Shepard
on a suborbital spaceflight in May 1961
to an altitude of about 116 miles.
Near the top of the frame, this Falcon rocket's two
reusable side boosters separate and execute brief entry burns.
They
returned
to land side by side at Canaveral's Landing Zone 1 and 2
in the distance.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.