Re: Excellent Venus Express Launch Photos

"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1131563353.520648.189210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> A series of very nice photos of the preparation and
> launch of Soyuz FG/Fregat ST-14 with ESA's
> Venus Express are at the following web site:
>
> "http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31141&farc
> hive_objecttypeid=18&farchive_objectid=30912"
>
> These are probably the best R-7 launch photos I've
> seen.

The resolution in the pad liftoff image has enough detail
to show optical heat distortion of the exhaust plume in
the background; I've never noticed that before in any
photograph.

Great detail of the pad support arms and umbilical
arm; they tuck just far enough out of the way that
the exhaust plume doesn't impinge on them. For all its
simplicity, the R-7 system has a certain elegance.

--DAmon

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