Yesterday, the European Space Agency successfully launched the space observatories Herschel and Planck. Today, they released two cool videos of the event: one was taken by the spacecraft itself and shows the Planck payload moving away from Herschel.
The other video was taken by a one-meter tracking ’scope in the Canary Islands, and shows the two spacecraft together with the Sylda launch vehicle gliding across the sky minutes after the two observatories separated from the vehicle:
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Whoa, that’s cool. The two bright objects are Herschel and Planck, and the dimmer one is the Sylda
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