Are there any other rocket launches featuring video (selfie) cameras on the rocket than Falcon 9 and Electron?
Falcon 9 has some 5 camera and Electron has 3 camera
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3Already the space shuttle had a lot, you can find them on the youtube. – peterh Sep 09 '20 at 23:45
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1Roughly how many self-viewing cameras are present in a Falcon 9 LEO mission? (unanswered), and What (the heck) is this purple donut in the video of the Falcon 9 fairing's atmospheric reentry? and How common is it for spacecraft to have “selfie” capability? There are more questions specifically about spacecraft selfie capabilities, but they tend to exclude launch phase. – uhoh Sep 10 '20 at 00:23
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What does "featuring" mean? I think many, many launch vehicles have cameras, but all of them have their feeds featured in PR videos posted in YouTube in near-real-time. Saturn V certainly had movie cameras that used film that had to be developed once it was recovered from the interstages (there are Q&A about those here somewhere) but don't know if it also had video. ISRO, (and CNSA and ESA I think, but not sure) have YouTubes which have shown selfie video during launches. Perhaps it's actually common to have the video but not so common to feature it. let's clarify what "featuring" means. – uhoh Sep 10 '20 at 00:25
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1In which case an additional question something like "Which launch was the first to carry a movie camera, and which to carry a video camera that provided launch-phase moving images" would be really interesting! – uhoh Sep 10 '20 at 00:27
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I agree but I suggest you ask that question, I dont really understand what "launch-phase moving images" means – Joe Jobs Sep 10 '20 at 00:56
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1Movies or video recorded during the launch phase of a mission, as opposed to movies or video during later phases i.e. "rocket launches" – uhoh Sep 10 '20 at 01:10
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2Soyuz launcher - not at every lauch, but occasionally has on-board camera too, for example this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fW2EhH1xRrY. You can find more with google " soyuz lauch onboard camera video". – Heopps Sep 10 '20 at 10:33
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One such launcher would be the good old Soyuz launcher. I think this onboard launch video looks particularly nice.
Given the low cost and weight of video cameras these days, I would expect most launch vehicles to have several. Whether this footage is easily available or not is a different problem.
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