Ariane-5 is taking off again
An impressive three minutes‘ sequence of a roaring Ariane-5 lift-off is currently re-used in Fulldome planetaria world-wide. It illustrates the moment, when the new ESA-NASA Webb space telescope is lifted into orbit by Europe’s heavy launcher. The sequence has been fully animated with then state of the art VFX and is still a breathtaking example of visual immersion. It is taken from the 45 minutes Fulldome movie „Touching the Edge of the Universe“ that I have produced for the European Space Agency in 2009. As for the introductory scene, it was for the first time a film crew shot on location inside the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, using a 3K Red camera, which then was the highest resolution video on the market.