Video of STS-121 Solid Rocket Booster Separation

NASA has published video (4.5MB, QuickTime) of the right-side Solid Rocket Booster separating during the launch of STS-121. The camera is one mounted to the SRB; given the quality of the imagery, I’m betting that this is video captured and recovered from the SRB rather than telemetered down to Mission Control (as the External Tank-mounted cameras are; the ET burns up after being jettisoned).

This kind of stuff is great for three reasons:

  1. It’ll catch the public (and the blogosphere’s) eye.
  2. This imagery helps watch for foam shedding and foam strikes. You’ll note that you see a lot of the right side of the Discovery Orbiter here. This imagery has understandable value.
  3. We’re going to need this imagery on CLV ARES.
Posted July 8th, 2006 in Linkfood, Space Man.

One comment:

  1. Cool Video of the Day « Famous Last Words:

    [...] Update: This page has the aforementioned video and others from the launch. (HT: Geof.) Explore posts in the same categories: Linkage [...]

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