Comments by "H. de Jong" (@h.dejong2531) on "" video.

Satellites are in orbits that are mostly parallel to Earth's surface. So instead of going straight up, the trajectory curves from vertical at launch to horizontal at orbit insertion. Animations are used during launch to give move views of the rocket. On recent launches there may be a camera or two on the rocket itself: Falcon 9 launches usually have video from the rocket. On older launchers, it'd difficult to retrofit cameras, because that would mean replacing the telemetry system (to accommodate a huge increase in data). For satellites, realtime video is pointless: the changes they're observing are slow enough that bandwidth-intensive video is not necessary, photos provide all the information we need.
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@stevekanyon5765 Tracking: once every 5 minutes, the tracker sends its coordinates, 12 bytes of data. Video: 8 Mbyte/s. Do you see the difference?
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@limiv5272 Not quite yet. Ed Stone, the Project Scientist (i.e. scientific director) has had that role since 1972, is still active today.
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