Lookin’ Over Your Shoulder On The Way To Space
SpaceExploration Sunday, September 7, 2003 . This is a SciScoop post by Ricky James
Anyway, I’ve come across a GREAT website by a company that makes worthy successors to the old Estes Camroc and Cineroc. Ecliptic Enterprises has among their many aerospace products a RocketCam series of units which are bolted onto the big boys….Deltas going to Mars, Space Shuttles going to orbit, that sort of thing. Check out THEIR home movies and see for yourself what it’s like to ride a rocket to Mars.
As for photography from model rockets today, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Wonder if anybody on the Ecliptic staff ever forked over $4 for a Camroc or $24.95 for a Cineroc decades ago?
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2 Responses to Lookin’ Over Your Shoulder On The Way To Space
apsmith
September 7th, 2003 at 4:20 pm
One of the lunch talks at this May’s ISDC meeting was by Rex Ridenoure, of RocketCam (Ecliptic). He showed some great video shots and talked a lot about the history of the business. A lot of the early space flights had video feeds – all the early manned flights for example, and of course the Apollo video feeds are “iconic”. More recently video has been merely a part of mission operations; they’re trying to recapture some of the early spirit.
It’s kind of interesting how they piggyback their cameras onto boosters, and the limited data feed they have. They’d kind of like to do IMAX, but that requires 9 Gbits/sec – not going to happen real soon!
Eponymous Zero
September 8th, 2003 at 11:35 am
It was interesting to see the RocketCam movie of launch of the shuttle Atlantis in October 2002 (misssion STS-112).
It shows a view looking down from a camera high up on the big external fuel tank. So you can see the nose of the shuttle, and one of its wings, as well as the ground receding below (behind) it.
Interesting because… what if such a camera had been on Columbia when it was launched a few months later…?