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I shot this from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida. The Atlas V 411 configuration rocket launched the Solar Orbiter. The Solar orbiter is equipped with 10 instruments to study the Sun in great detail. It will orbit the Sun at a distance of about 26 million miles (42 million km).
LCROSS and LRO are heading back to the moon, but this picture offers some nice historical perspective.
Date of original image: April 14, 1970
This bright-rayed crater on the lunar farside was photographed from the Apollo 13 spacecraft during its pass around the Moon. This area is northeast of Mare Marginus. The bright-rayed crater is located at about 105 degrees east longitude and 45 degrees north latitude. The crater Joliot-Curie is located between Mare Marginus and the rayed crater. This view is looking generally toward the northeast.
Image credit: NASA
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This view is from Cocoa Beach at the end of Minuteman Causeway. Unfortunately, clouds obscured much of the rocket's light trail, but it was still a sight to see. © Chuck Palmer - 2021 - _DSC7429
Liftoff of the ULA Mighty AtlasV rocket!
The Lucy Mission began its 12-year mission at 5:34am (ET) Saturday with a beautiful launch from LC-41 / Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
This was the view from Palm Shores & the Indian River, 25 miles south.
Pic: me / We Report Space
Atlas V rocket launch taken at Merritt Island Veterans Memorial Center, FL. It carried the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-3) satellite to orbit. 120 second exposure.
First developed in 1959, the Pratt & Whitney RL10 was the first hydrogen/oxygen engine, yet it is still the most fuel efficient engine ever made, and the highest ISP engine flying today.
It has carried spacecraft the moon and the sun and every planet in our solar system and beyond (Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager, Cassini, Mars Viking, Helios solar probe, Lunar Surveyor, Venus 2, LCROSS). It powers the second stage of the Saturn, Atlas V, Titan and Delta III and IV.
The bell on the right is actually composed of 360 pipes that route the super-chilled hydrogen fuel down and back before combustion to keep the nozzle from melting (regenerative cooling). They are brazed together with pure silver on a bell-shaped mandrel.
This engine uses a clever expander cycle with gear-coupled fuel and oxidizer turbo pumps, a design that has not been used on any other hydrogen engine. The phase change of the hydrogen fuel powers both the fuel and oxidizer cyro pumps.
A Pratt & Whitney employee claimed that this unit was the second one built. It may be the only original RL10 in private circulation. More details below.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance rover sit on Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral at sunset. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance
Hi all! A little piece of unfolding history. How awesome is this? The glorious MOON!
The LCROSS spacecraft has successfully completed its swing-by of the Moon and is being steered back into normal cruise mode. This swing-by has provided a gravity assist into the LCROSS cruise orbit. During this cruise phase, the operations team will evaluate the spacecraft's health and status. The LCROSS spacecraft won't be "up close and personal" with the moon again until the day of impact on October 9, 2009!
This image was captured from live streaming on June 23, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. CDT.
Image credit: NASA
Learn more about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) :
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/main/index.html
Learn more about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS):
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html
Follow the "New Moon Missions" blog from NASA:
Atlas V rocket launch 6:19am as seen from Palm Bay Florida approx. 45 miles south of Cape Canaveral. 30 second tripod exposure.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launched from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 launched at 6:54 p.m. EDT, and will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Over the next 12 years, Lucy will fly by one main-belt asteroid and seven Trojan asteroids, making it the agency’s first single spacecraft mission in history to explore so many different asteroids. Lucy will investigate these “fossils” of planetary formation up close during its journey.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and SBIRS GEO Flight 5 mission for the United States Space Force sit on the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral at sunset. Photo Credit: United Launch Alliance
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
This is the United Launch Alliance AEHF-5 satellite launch.
With a launch time of 6:13am (ET) and a sunrise of 6:48am, the downrange plume caught the rising sunlight perfectly. There's even a hint of crepuscular rays emanating from the horizon.
This is a 251-second exposure captured from Palm Shores, Florida, looking across the Indian River Lagoon. The shadowy figure on the dock is a fisherman, net fishing, but he sure paused to watch the launch. Afterward, he asked me if the rocket exploded, and I assured him it did exactly what it was supposed to do.
Available for purchase here:
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Edited to add that this was named NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day ("APOD") for August 9, 2019. Link here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190809.html
Also, this image was selected as the Aviation Week Photo Contest 2019 "Space First Place" image, here:
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NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, or LCRD, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program 3 mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
LCRD will showcase the unique capabilities of optical communications. The mission’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 spacecraft also hosts the NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder.
Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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This long exposure shows the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched this morning (Tuesday, December 7, 2021) from CCSFS. The STP3 mission carried a national security payload and the LCRD payload for NASA.
This image is notable because of the white cloud to the right of the streak. The launch time was at 5:19am (ET). Sunrise wasn't until 7:01am, but the rocket was traveling nearly due East from the Space Coast, so eventually, when the second stage plume hit sunlight (combination of altitude and distance traveled toward the Sun), the plume lit up. It could be seen in Palm Shores, Florida, 25-ish miles South of the pad.
This image is a composite of 2 images captured consecutively, the first for the streak (258-seconds) and the second for the plume (121-secs at a higher light sensitivity). The images were combined as layers into one single image.
Found during memory card cleanup, (another) shot looking straight up 515 feet from floor level inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The last time I attempted this shot, I wasn't exactly centered and used Lightroom's "transform" feature to get the lines straight. But, this time I'm pretty close - this is exactly as I shot it.
Photo was taken March 1, 2018, on our way down from the roof after the successful launch of the GOES-S satellite.
Details: ISO5000, f4, 1/125 sec at 17mm.
This Atlas V rocket was launched into a blue sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 8-22-17. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com.
I was able to capture ULA Atlas V rocket launch from SLC-41 launch pad over the Mission Space pavilion in Epcot. The launch pad is over 60 miles away. I think it's pretty cool how the flight path follows the pavilion's own arch. Can't wait to capture another launch from Disney.
It was a beautiful scene from Cocoa Beach as the mighty #AtlasV rocket carried the #SolarOrbiter aloft, seen here in a 202-sec exposure.
Truly, #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters.
And, bonus photobomb by the nearly Full Moon.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket stands at Space Launch Complex-3 (SLC-3) with the Landsat 9 spacecraft at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled back to the Vertical Integration Facility from the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 to avoid inclement weather, Friday, July 30, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The earliest available launch opportunity is Tuesday, Aug. 3 at 1:20pm ET. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the GOES-T spacecraft for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA lifted off on March 1 at 4:38 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
In the latest edition (for me) of analog vs. digital, may I present the film-version of the United Launch Alliance AEHF5 AtlasV rocket launch.
The rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:13 am, 35 minutes before sunrise. When the rocket was far enough downrange (to the East), the exhaust plume caught the light from the rising Sun, and it lit a bright white against the darkened sky.
I ran both a DSLR and a film camera, the latter seen here. I tend to underexposure my nighttime film launch streaks, but this one ended up more blown out than I would have liked. I only ran the DSLR frame for 251-seconds and thought the film would be a bit more forgiving.
The DSLR version is here, for comparison: flic.kr/p/2gSGSCX
Details: This is an 18-minute exposure at f22, opened 10-minutes before the launch, and then run for 8 minutes during the launch. I was using Kodak Ektachrome 100 film in a Canon Elan7 with a Rokinon 14mm wide-angle. Processing and scan by The Darkroom.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
#GOESR #AtlasV Twilight shot: Denied.
This is a completely hacked shot. It's a combination of two frames taken off my backup streak camera. The first frame was taken at 5:20pm as the sun was setting. She sky was just brilliant, and the sun was throwing lovely oranges and reds downrange. The second frame is a 163 second exposure of the streak, taken at 6:42pm.
I'm showing it here to show a version of the shot we were hoping for, but as the launch slipped to the end of the window, we ended up shooting a full nighttime launch. I'm still not sure what issues United Launch Alliance needed to work out (and then the range got involved, also adding a few minutes to the delay), but despite missing the twilight, it was still a really lovely launch.
Tech specs:
Frame 1: 13 second exposure, f7.1, ISO 100 through a 10 stop ND filter
Frame 2: 163 second exposure, f20, ISO 100
Both were at 10mm (on a crop sensor).
Frames processed in Lightroom and then stacked in Photoshop.
The Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module is carried atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as it launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Orbital ATK's seventh commercial resupply services mission, CRS-7, will deliver 7,600 pounds of supplies, equipment and scientific research materials to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 11:11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 18, 2017. At about 6:05 a.m. EDT on Saturday, April 22, Expedition 51 astronauts Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) and Peggy Whitson of NASA will use the space station’s robotic arm to grapple Cygnus, which will be installed on the Unity module.
Image credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph
An Atlas V carrying a Navy satellite to orbit just before dawn was lit up by the sun to produce this incredible glowing exhaust plume and noctilucent cloud. Needless to say, it makes for an absolutely terrific launch experience. Taken from Oviedo, FL.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA’s Mars-bound spacecraft, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Details: 480-second exposure at f18 captured on Kodak Ektachrome 100 35mm transparency using a Canon Elan7 body and a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens.
This is a United Launch Alliance AtlasV rocket carrying the "Solar Orbiter" Sun observing satellite, as seen in a (very) long-exposure from Cocoa Beach, Florida. The launch was on February 10, 2020 and I sat on the roll for a while before sending it to The Darkroom for processing (and scanning). Dominating the night sky is the Moon, and the silhouettes to the right of the frame are Erik Kuna and me, working our respective DSLRs.
My DSLR version of the scene is here: flic.kr/p/2irsrQ7
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched the MUOS-5 satellite for the U.S. Navy. © Chuck Palmer - 2016 - DSC_0741-Edit.jpg
A crane is used to lift the third of four solid rocket boosters (SRB) for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket into the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida on June 8, 2020. The SRB will be lifted up and mated to the Atlas V booster in the VIF. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance rover is scheduled to launch in July 2020, atop the Atlas V rocket from Pad 41. The rover is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover’s seven instruments will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky