Rocket launch photography primer video strap-on crash
sjurvetson | June 3, 2009Part 1 - Looking Down with a Strap-on Videocamera
I fiberglassed half of a plastic Easter Egg as the nose cone for an Oregon Scientific action cam, so it can be a strap-on on various rockets:
One of my goals has been to capture another rocket launching up after me as a chaser:
And sometimes you see the crowd from a mile up... or on the return:
I'll embed one of the video examples. It allows for frame grabs of blastoff, and the ignition of the outer booster by on-board computer:
and the subsequent launch of three chaser rockets... and a glorious arc over:
The video can also record…