The speed of one rocket in the other's rest frame is obtained by relativistic velocity addition:
(1)
The Lorentz factor is . By length contraction, the spatial length measured at simultaneous times in that rocket's rest frame is
(2)
This is the inertial-frame length measurement; a visual image assembled from light arriving at one instant is a different measurement.

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