essentially making a camera-wielding reaction wheel that would stay oriented in one direction, no matter how fast the rocket itself is spinning. Did it work? Yes… and no. The design was intended ...

On May 22, NASA photographer Bill Ingalls left six cameras near a 230-foot-tall SpaceX rocket just before it blasted toward space. Like other photographers who'd traveled to Vandenberg Air Force ...

You know you live in the space age when solar storms knock out farmers' GPS-reliant tractors and a camera in Earth's lofty orbit films a rocket launching through the atmosphere. This camera ...

When someone writes in and says, “Hey, I strapped a camera to a rocket and took videos of it launching!” it’s really hard for us to not get suckered in. Try as we might, we just couldn’t ...

Best mirrorless camera for astro This is simply one of the best cameras on the market. For low-light photography, it has Starlight View which drops the autofocus detection range down to -9EV, the ...

Pettit said in a social media post on X (formerly Twitter),sharing a photo of the rocket's launch plume against the deep blue backdrop of the Gulf of Mexico. Pettit's camera wasn't the only one on ...