VidOrbital

An internet stickyball for spaceflight videos and other media, updated intermittently by brownpau. (Formerly known as SpaceGet.)

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Long March (CZ) 3B launches Shijian 13 from Xichang Satellite Center, 2017/04/12, viewed from what seems to be a terribly unsafe distance. [via]

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Launch of GOES-17 aboard an Atlas V 541 from CCAFS SLC 41 on 2018/01/03.

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Boom ²

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy side booster double landing, with extremely loud sonic booms at 0:28.

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Space X Falcon Heavy launch from NASA KSC LC39A, side boosters landing at CCAFS LZ, and Starman in space on board a Tesla Roadster. Full launch webcast and live views of Starman.

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GIF: launch of Soyuz TMA-20M with crew of ISS Expedition 47, from Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station.

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GIF: Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.2 with SES-9 from CCAFS SLC 40.

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Liftoff of ULA Atlas V 401 with USAF GPSII-F12 from CCAFS SLC 41, 2016 Feb 5.

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First raw images from Cassini probe's close flyby of the icy moon Enceladus and its water-spewing south polar geysers.

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Animation of New Horizons Pluto Flyby by SWRI scientist Stuart Robbins.

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NASA's EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) instrument aboard the NOAA DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) satellite captures the moon's far side as it crosses in front of Earth.

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“Freedom 7” (1961). Vintage NASA film about Alan Shepard’s suborbital Mercury flight.

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GIF: Launch and subsequent failure of SpaceX Falcon 9 with Dragon CRS-7, ending in rapid unplanned disassembly. Propulsion engineering can be a difficult endeavor. Via Spacevids and NASA TV

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From NASA: orbital views from the International Space Station, set to Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air".

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GIF from better video of SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage barge landing attempt. Lateral movement issues appear to have culminated in rapid disassembly of the vehicle, but this still represents a significant improvement from the previous barge landing.

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Second Falcon 9 barge landing attempt, GIF captured from SpaceX chase plane video excerpt. The rocket stage hit the barge but tipped over.

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GIFs: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with Dragon on CRS-6 ISS resupply mission. From NASA TV and SpaceX Webcast.

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GIF of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko spinning, as captured by ESA's Rosetta probe.