Ride Along With a Soyuz Rocket Into Orbit

One of the best innovative uses of remote cameras is when space agencies strap them onto the sides of rockets. It's probably the closest most of us will ever get to seeing what it's like to hitch a ride into space. On April 3, 2014, a Soyuz rocket lifted off from French Guiana carrying Sentinel-1A, an Earth-observing satellite (the first in the ambitious Copernicus program, meant to observe our planet's environment). Two rocket cams were mounted on the side of the upper (Fregat) stage, looking d...