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Photography of the Soyuz-FG rocket launch for ROSCOSMOS
State Corporation ROSCOSMOS has been managing the entire rocket and space complex of the country since 2015.
To launch rockets, ROSCOSMOS uses two Russian launch sites: Vostochny and Plesetsk, as well as the famous Baikonur site in Kazakhstan. Astronauts are trained in Zvyozdny gorodok in the Moscow region, and the mission control center is in Korolyov, Moscow Region. ROSKOSMOS is in charge of space technology development, production, and supply in Russia. In cooperation with foreign space agencies, it also launches satellites into orbit and delivers astronauts and cargoes to the ISS. Recently, ROSCOSMOS has become the world leader in launching civilian space rockets.
In July 2017, the Line Artworks team went to the Baikonur site to photograph the launch of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-05 manned spacecraft and the international team on board. The rocket was supposed to send a crew of Russian Sergey Ryazansky, American Randolph Breznik, and Italian Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency to the International Space Station.
The Line Artworks team photographed all stages of the site and launch vehicle preparation for launch, the press conference of the astronauts and made their pre-flight portraits, as well as the launch of the spacecraft itself.
To cover all the interesting moments in preparing the rocket for launch, our team had to go to the photography location a week before the launch date. During this time, we chose ideal points for photography and assembled a small photo studio to make pre-flight portraits of astronauts. But we photographed the launch vehicle preparation for flight — docking the head and upper stages, and take image-building photos of the entire territory of the launch site both in daylight and at night.
Read more about technical aspects of photography of the launch of space rockets in another our project for ROSCOSMOS — Soyuz 2.1a launch from the Vostochny site.
Republic of Kazakhstan, Baikonur
