You’ve likely never seen a rocket launch quite like this. When the Chinese commercial spaceflight startup OneSpace launched a rocket test flight on September 7, 2018, a satellite was watching. The result: one amazing video.
Truly god view, Jilin-1 video satellite shot @OneSpace01 OS-X1 suborbital rocket’s launch at JSLC this noon. pic.twitter.com/KposRHZc4D
— dafeng cao (@dafengcao) September 7, 2018
The video shows OneSpace’s OS-X1 rocket blast off from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert during a suborbital test of the solid-fueled booster. It was captured by China’s Jilin-1 satellite in orbit 332 miles (535 kilometers) above Earth and was shared on the country’s social media site Weibo, according to China’s GB Times. Twitter user Dafeng Cao then shared the video on Twitter.
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