Space camera films footage of giant Starship rocket launching to space [Video]

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 attached to the International Space Station — the SpaceTV-1 instrument operated by the Earth-monitoring company Sen — captured the launch of SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket on Nov. 19, the nearly 400-foot-tall vehicle’s sixth test flight. Such footage, showing the rocket’s plume from 250 miles up, is rare, if not unprecedented.

“This is believed to be the first time ever a rocket launch has been filmed in real time from space,” Getty Images posted online.

In the video below (which plays after a short ad), you can see the white plume appearing on the top of the screen at center-right at eight seconds into the video. The plume becomes more apparent as the footage progresses closer. (The plume is also pointed out in the post from Sen, …