Here's what a rocket launch looks like from the view of a satellite

Rocket launches are usually thrilling to watch anyway, but it’s particularly cool watching them from a satellite.

Over the weekend, Chinese private spaceflight company OneSpace launched its OS-X1 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.

The suborbital test is the second time the company has sent a rocket to space, and its liftoff was captured by the Jilin-1 video satellite. 

The footage from space was originally posted on Weibo, and was reposted on Twitter by Dafeng Cao. 

And here’s what the launch looked like from the ground. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Here's what a rocket launch looks like from the view of a satellite