The first fully private crewed Axiom-1 mission to visit the International Space Station (ISS), returned to Earth on April 26 in a SpaceX Crew Dragon. During this return journey, a camera tracking the meteors was able to simultaneously capture the spacecraft, the ISS, and a burning fireball.
The European Space Agency (ESA) Operations Twitter account recently shared the video, saying, “An incredible sight: A ship passing by four astronauts in their cocoons aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as they leave the International Space Station to return home on April 26. The meteor fell and burned in the Earth’s atmosphere.”
https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/1520059958158630912
In the video, the meteor is very clearly drifting hotly. The ISS is at the brightest moving point above and to the right of the meteor, and the Crew Dragon is in the faint spot above the light line.The camera recording this impressive event is part of the AllSky7 fireball net, a project that tracks and documents meteorites using a camera system pointed to the sky.
For the spacecraft and the ISS, this meteor was not a danger.ESA said the fireball was hundreds of kilometers from the spacecraft. He said he passed.
The video doesn’t look as dramatic as in the movies, it just shows three light points doing their job. But these light spots represent something big: human spaceflight and Earth’s connection to the larger universe. Two of the light spots are there because of human creativity and effort. One is a flying object in our Solar System that ends its journey as a beautiful streak in our planet’s atmosphere.
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