Roscosmos will make the show. On the rocket will install video cameras for broadcasting on the Internet

Recently, Roscosmos was pleased with the live broadcast of the launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the spacecraft of the ExoMars mission. The broadcast was perfectly organized from the Roscosmos television studio, with comments from experts in the studio and three-dimensional animation of the Briz-M upper stage.

In the future, webcasts promise to become even more spectacular. Roscosmos has set a task for manufacturers of rockets - to install video cameras on carriers so that the image is broadcast in real time on the Internet. This will be one of the ways to promote space activities.

“We have already turned to manufacturers with this idea, a preliminary assessment was carried out by specialists of Progress Rocket and Space Center,” said Igor Burenkov, director of communications for Roscosmos. - Considered several Russian and foreign systems, both finished and requiring improvement or decision-making on the development work. Each has its advantages and disadvantages: different quality of shooting, different types of transmitted signal, the presence or absence of stations receiving the desired type of signal, the number of cameras and, of course, the cost. ”
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It's nice that Roscosmos adopts the best experience of foreign colleagues. For example, SpaceX covers missile launches in detail. Video cameras are installed on the launch vehicle and on the landing platforms. Ilon Mask himself comments on the events on Twitter. As a result, SpaceX is often mentioned in the press - this is good not only for the company, but for the entire space program as a whole.

“Installing cameras on rockets and broadcasting videos to the Web is an easy and relatively cheap way to make a show of rocket launches,” a correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics told Izvestia. Tsiolkovsky Andrei Ionin. - We definitely need to promote the space program in order to attract as many young people as possible to the industry. The more people come into the space program, the greater the chance that among them will be a new ingenious designer or a great entrepreneur. Recently, NASA reported that applications for entry into the cosmonaut corps filed a record number of people for the entire existence of the agency. This is the result of the popularization of space themes, which in the multimedia era is carried out mainly through video. ”

Video cameras have long been installed on spacecraft. For example, on the lunar rocket "Saturn-5" worked a video camera, which then landed on a parachute. The cameras were installed on the Space Shuttle shuttles and on the Soyuz carriers by order of the European Space Agency (see video).



When launching from Russian cosmodromes video cameras on rockets have never been installed.