{"id":14665,"date":"2017-07-23T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14665"},"modified":"2017-07-23T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:23:00","slug":"videos-planet-satellite-captures-launch-of-more-planet-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14665","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Planet satellite captures launch of more Planet satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14th, a <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2017\/07\/14\/soyuz-rideshare-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian Soyuz rocket<\/a> launched a large government earth observation satellite as its primary payload and 72 small satellites, including 48 for the earth observation company\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Planet<\/a> (formerly Planet Labs). Planet has something in the range of 150 active small satellites, which they call <em>Doves<\/em>, \u00a0viewing the earth in low earth orbit. (After a few years, the satellites reenter the atmosphere for a fiery destruction.) During the launch, one Dove happened to be passing overhead and took a series of images during the launch:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/pulse\/?p=3668\" target=\"_d\">Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Planet, we launch new satellite flocks regularly. For years, we\u2019ve been talking about getting that perfect shot from space of a rocket mid-flight; and as our on-orbit fleet has grown in size, the odds of one of our satellites being in the right position to image these rocket launches have only increased. Last week, the orbits aligned.<\/p>\n<p>Our Dove constellation is a monitoring one, meaning we point each Dove straight down, imaging what\u2019s directly below in strips as the Earth rotates. In the hours leading up to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/pulse\/when-doves-fly-48-flock-2k-satellites-successfully-launched-and-deployed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our recent Soyuz launch<\/a>\u00a0we determined that a Dove would be near enough to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to get a shot of our newest flock launching. Once we determined it was possible, our Attitude Control team worked with our Mission Operations team to point a Dove at the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>And, to put it frankly, the results are pretty cool. Check out what we captured:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afiLd4zPoLQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To create this animation, we pointed a Dove approximately 50 degrees off-nadir towards the pad, capturing one still image per second of the fixed target as the Dove travelled overhead at an approximate speed of seven kilometers per second (or 15,658 MPH). Then our Imaging Team cropped and stitched the stills together. All in all, this short clip covers about two and a half minutes in real-time including lift off and flight.<\/p>\n<p>From an operational standpoint, these on-orbit maneuvers were exciting to perform. We realized we\u2019d be able to snap these images about 5 hours prior to launch; and our extensive ground station network made it easy to get the target commands up to the satellite really quickly. The next morning, right around the time the Doves Flock 2k were deploying from the Soyuz into orbit, we received the data.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through it for the first time was exciting for the team. We\u2019ve captured some spectacular imagery over the last few years, but these launch shots of the Soyuz are some of my personal favorites.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planet.com\/pulse\/when-doves-fly-48-flock-2k-satellites-successfully-launched-and-deployed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the flock of 48 satellites of Flock 2k that launched onboard the Soyuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here is a ground view of the launch:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E0X0KfEnJAk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a recent interview with Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/api\/embed\/iframe?id=eb7eef1e-4bc8-4ea0-b4e0-c52c3dc04266\" width=\"520\" height=\"294\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a time-lapse of Planet images of Tesla&#8217;s Gigafactory in Nevada for mass production of lithium batteries:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bG-Of319jk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=amzn_basics_elctnics&amp;banner=10PFV81ZPVCWKXE6S9G2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=caaa70725fb7c5b929777e8413b07b34&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 14th, a Russian Soyuz rocket launched a large government earth observation satellite as its primary payload and 72 small satellites, including 48 for the earth observation company\u00a0Planet (formerly Planet Labs). Planet has something in the range of 150 active small satellites, which they call Doves, \u00a0viewing the earth in low earth orbit. (After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Planet satellite captures launch of more Planet satellites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-in-the-sky","category-multiple-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Ox","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13911,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13911","url_meta":{"origin":14665,"position":0},"title":"100 examples of earth observation apps + Imaging all of earth every day","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Satellite observation of\u00a0earth has become an essential tool for monitoring and studying what is happening on our planet on the short and long term. 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