The long-awaited rocket on the "Union"

The carrier rockets on the basis of the royal “Seven” have been flying for fifty-seven years, but all this time they have not been videotaped (“roketkam”). For telemetrists, this was not particularly necessary, and the desire of space fans to see "how it looks in flight" did not become noticeable enough to spend money and time for this purpose and make a video recording module with video transmission to Earth according to space standards. At the "Astronautics News" forum, they even collected signatures by an open letter to Roskosmos with a request to install roketkams on the "Unions". I don’t know if this letter worked, or if this was an ESA initiative, but a joyful event happened the other day - the “Soyuz”, launched from Kourou, was installed to the rocket! And now we can see how the sides and the second stage are separated, practically, from the first person. For me, this is very good news, I hope you enjoy it too:





Thanks to the Cosmonautics News forum, we have an animation of shooting from the Earth and from the board:







I have already written in sufficient detail about the layout of the Soyuz launch vehicle and the stage separation mechanism.

Information about the camera, which, presumably, stood on the "Union" - OCAM , OCAM-2 .