Video from the Falcon 9 Fairing

    Yesterday, a beautiful video was posted on the SpaceX channel, shot by a camera installed on the inside of the Falcon 9 rocket fairing. The fairing rotates after the reset, so the choice of music turned out to be almost obvious:



    In the video, the comet-shaped object is the working second stage, and two luminous objects are the second half of the fairing and the empty first stage.

    The video from the camera was almost certainly received on the radio, because in a recent story with the debris of a Falcon 9 rocket found on a Bahamas beach, it was not possible to extract data from a memory card, and Musk did not want to take the wreckage of his rocket. This can also explain the short duration of the video - the camera captures the fairing compartment, and it was considered unnecessary to install additional batteries to fix a long fall.
    If you are interested in seeing a similar drop entirely, there is an eight-minute recording from the Space Shuttle accelerator. Side boosters drop about a minute earlier than the Falcon 9 fairing and do not rise so high.


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