WorldView-3 launch as seen from WorldView-1

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A week and a half ago I noted the WorldView-3 launch.   Well, the owners of WV-3 had the presence of mind to think, “Hey, wouldn’t it be neat to record the launch of WV-3 from one of our other satellites?”  And so they did:

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From the company’s blog:

WorldView-1 caught this sequence of images of the WorldView-3 Atlas V launch vehicle as it launched from Vandenberg AFB in California last Wednesday. The rocket was really moving; by the time of the last frame, WorldView-3 was traveling at just over 1,000 mph at an altitude of 49,000 feet. WorldView-1 shot these while moving at 17,000 mph at an altitude of 307 miles above the ground, at a distance of between 500 and 750 miles from the rocket.