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"This was a tough one," said
@elonmusk
about the B1060.5 landing, but the #Falcon9 1st stage is looking good here as it returns to port early Sunday morning.
This is just before an active thunderstorm rolled in. (Kudus to the #SpaceXFleet crew, working through the weather.)
Tesla Takedown movement protesting outside the Tesla Showroom, 860 Washington St, Manhattan, NYC. 22nd March 2025.
Ricoh GRIII
Justin
First attempt under bad conditions in a cloudy and bright halfmoon-night to shoot the regularly flying by Starlink satellites with a NIKON D800, 50mm/1.8, 30'' near Graz.
Styria . Austria . Europe
9:36 - 9:55 pm, 1 May 2020
Starlink-5, BRIGHT (2.7).
Look from NORTHWEST to SOUTHEAST (details)
elevation (from horizon): start: 10°, max: 54°, end: 30°
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SPACE ODDITY by DAVID BOWIE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
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This image is a blatant rip off of Michael Galindo's cool series showing the exact manuever shown here. He and I were shooting within feet of each other, so even the camera angles are similar. But, when I saw his excellent series, I was reminded of just how magical it was to watch the #SpaceX #ArabSat6a #FalconHeavy. In particular, this roll maneuver was so pleasing because, from the KSC Press Site (from where I was watching; thank you, again, Emilee for letting me onto your roof), you're sort of looking at the edge of the rocket, missing much of the novelty of the 3-cored rocket.
That's where the roll comes in: 15-seconds into the flight (moments after the first frame) the rocket begins to roll, and 21-seconds later, all three cores came beautifully into view (including the ArabSat logo on the fairing, faintly).
It was so cool to watch through a 500mm lens (thank you, John) and when the roll had completed, I may have said "thank you" out loud.
(Pics: me / WeReportSpace)
At first, I almost missed it. Sandwiched between the test frames (Wednesday morning) and the launch frames (Thursday afternoon) on one of my remote camera memory cards was this single image, captured Thursday morning, almost exactly 5 hours before the #CRS19 #SpaceX launch.
I love romanticizing the lonely and dangerous plight of our remote cameras, sitting stoically a few hundred feet from a rocket, often waiting for days to capture a controlled explosion. For this image, I imagine this 10-year-old camera shivering through Wednesday night (there was no rain in the forecast, so I didn't leave any heating), and waking up to capture this single image as the launch complex became awash in light from the rising Sun.
The camera is triggered by sound, and in an attempt to ignore *every* sound at the pad, I have the sensitivity set reasonably low. So, all personification aside, a semi-loud noise at the pad must have triggered this image, made super dreamy by the "golden hour." Also, I confess that I missed the focus by just a bit, hence the soft-focus film look, but this is pretty much directly from the camera.
As a related aside, Ben Cooper's Thursday morning image is genuinely the stuff of dreams. He was looking toward the sunrise, probably about an hour earlier, and the color on the horizon behind the rocket lit bright makes for a truly magical image.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
SpaceX launches the Axiom-1 mission with 4 civilian astronauts to the ISS. The Falcon 9 lifted off from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center at 11:17 AM EDT. The Ax-1 crew members are retired NASA astronaut Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Pilot Larry Connor, and Mission Specialists Eytan Stibbe and Mark Pathy.
Flight, or "OH SH*T!" (working title)
I'm guessing this bird's day isn't going exactly as planned.
This is the #SpaceX #Block5 #Falcon9 carrying the #Bangabandhu1 satellite as it lifts off the pad. (You can see my earlier photo for context. This bird flew through the frame and caused quite a stir, inviting theories of its demise that ranged from it being liquified, or deep fried KFC-style, or knocked unconcious. On the other end of the spectrum, some assumed that the bird is fine. (This latter group included the usual "fake photo" and "fake launch" conspiracists.)
The camera is approximately 2300 feet from the rocket, to so the bird was 1-2299 feet away from the rocket. I figure if it made it that far through the frame without obvious signs of distress (and, flame) then I'm assuming the bird is probably in need of PTSD treatment, but, otherwise, fine.
(Photos by me/@Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
SpaceX Falcon 9 launched their third batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites Monday at 9:19:21 EST, from SLC-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:13 p.m. EST.
With lightning far offshore of Cape Canaveral, it was a beautiful morning launch for the SpaceX Falcon9 with the crewdragon DM-1, heading to the ISS. Launch occurred at 2:49 a.m. EST from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center
It may look space age and expensive, but I think it's pretty ugly! On the other hand, it's pretty interesting to see!
Spotted on the square in Fayetteville, TN
Rapid launch cadence and reusability on display today as #SpaceX has one #Falcon9 in the air and another booster in port, just off-loaded and getting ready for re-use.
Early Thursday morning at 1 AM on 8-3-23 SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Galaxy 37 communications satellite. This was the sixth flight of the first stage booster which landed successfully on the barge Just Read the Instructions. This image was taken from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida which is 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of the launch site.
Translation:
"Elon Musk - They don't ban hate speech. They ban the speech they hate."
Those who want peace send diplomats, not weapons.
Saturday's demonstration in Frankfurt against Corona policy, April 30, 2022. Big event for peace and freedom.
This was the scene this (Thurs) morning as the #SpaceX recovery team was removing the legs from the #ArabSat6a #FalconHeavy center core. The #SpaceXFleet returned to @portcanaveral at 2am, carrying the successfully landed first stage. It’s on its side (and the top is missing) after high seas caused the rocket to tip over.
(Pic: me / @wereportspace taken from the @explorationtower observation deck)
SpaceX launched the Japanese ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 robotic moon lander, and NASA's micro-satellite called Lunar Flashlight to look for signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark crater floors of the moon's poles. After launch, booster B1073 returned to land at LZ-2 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
"Perfetto! No duct tape needed." – Maurizio Cattelan, creator of Comedian (2019)
Stable Diffusion
Media:
* Island News: $650K Elon Musk painting catches the attention of many passersby in Waikiki
* The Art Newspaper (blog): "Elon Musk serves up disconcerting AI art," November 26, 2024
See also: Don't cry for me Roger Waters...
Closeup of the first stage booster returning to LZ-1 after its' 10th flight on Thursday morning. The heat waves from the single Merlin engine are visible.
The #Falcon9 #Block5 #Bangabandhu first stage returned to Port Canaveral this morning. Mary Ellen Jelen was present to well-document the return (along with many others) at 7am.
I was able to swing by between meetings and by 11:20am (3-ish hours after docking) they had already moved the first stage off the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You", seen here from the top of Exploration Tower at Port Canaveral.
Note the VAB in the background. Also of note: moving the #SpaceX logo higher up the rocket to avoid charring during reentry seems to have worked well.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
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This image shows the remains of an ancient delta in Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will explore for signs of fossilized microbial life. The image was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express orbiter.
SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:13 p.m. EST.
In a continued test of my fondness for immediate gratification, I shot 35mm film for the early (Tuesday) morning rocket launch, and I received the scan last night.
So, may I present the #HISPASAT30W-6 #Falcon9 launch by #SpaceX, captured on Kodak Ektar 100 35mm print film using a 40-year-old Canon A1 (thank you, Wayne Seeley).
The exposure time I used will be a guess, as I may or may not have forgotten about this camera. I triggered the shutter at 12:32 am, one minute before the launch, and then I didn't remember it until after I had processed images from my DSLRs and posted them to Twitter. After doing so, the always cool Chris G asked me if I was running a time-lapse (he thought I might have caught one of the burns during the first stage landing sequence), and it was only then that I remembered this shutter was still open. I posted the photos to Twitter at 12:45 am, so I'd estimate this exposure to be in the neighborhood of 13 minutes at f18.
Other than dealing with film's reciprocity failure (if I want anything other than the streak to be exposed correctly, I need a much longer exposure), the other issue is focal length: 24mm is too much. Especially for these shots from the media area on the ITL Causeway, under 3 miles away from the pad, I need a wider-angle lens. This shot does work pretty well framed vertically, but I'd like more of the down-range streak in the frame.
Thanks to The Darkroom for the quick and high-quality processing and scanning of this image. From the time of receipt, it took them only one day to get this image to me. The real delay was with the USPS, who took three days to deliver to The Darkroom the Priority Mail Express (overnight delivery, guaranteed!) package containing the film.
Elon Musk / Port of Bellingham joint venture, Bellingham's Acid Ball visits the Red Planet (a lightly doctored SpaceX Red Planet image)
My original photo www.flickr.com/photos/tellytomtelly/39927725054
This is the #SpaceX #CRS17 #Falcon9 launch of 2:48 am (ET) on Saturday, May the 4th (2019), captured on 35mm film. I was on the roof of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, 525 feet high. (In the bottom left of the frame you can see the top of one of the high bay door structures, sticking out of the side of the building.)
There are three streaks of particular note in this image; the main one shows the launch of the rocket. And then less obvious is the first of the landing burns, near the top of the arc (cutting across the launch streak), and the final landing burn is just to the right of the pad, capturing the first stage as it descends to the drone-ship "Of Course I Still Love You" positioned 16km or so off the coast. And then we have the special guest appearances: Jupiter (the white line to the right) and Vega (the bluish line just below the top of the streak).
For the most part, I've got the streak exposure figured out for 35mm film, but exposing the foreground continues to be a challenge. For this image, I opened the shutter at 2:38 am (10 minutes before launch) and let run for 20 minutes total, but it really could have run for at least another 10 minutes to bring out foreground detail. (I had intended to start it 20 minutes before the launch, but I was distracted by trying to capture an image of the Milky Way using one of my DSLRs; there was just too much light catching the moisture in the air for that.) But, as with my DSLR image, this is a tad underexposed.
On a happy note, I have found a lab that will indulge my impatience - normally I wait 5-7 days for slide film to be processed and scanned, but thanks to the Denver Digital Imaging Center, this image was processed and scanned the same day they received the film (today).
For a digital version of this image from the DSLR set up next to this camera, visit here:
Details: 20-minute exposure on Fuji Velvia 50 35mm film, shot at f16 with a Canon Elan7 and a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens. The Denver Digitial Imaging Center did the processing and scan. The only digital post-processing I did was to crop it slightly (in the original, I caught some red from one of the FAA lights on the top of the VAB).
After being clear most of the evening, a few clouds went by during the #SpaceX #Falcon9 launch with the Starlink-1 payload of 60 satellites. The first of many launches to create a constellation of thousands of satellites to provide high-speed internet to the world. Launch was at 10:30 p.m. last night from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Machu Picchu, a 15th-century Incan citadel nestled in Peru’s Andes Mountains, is a breathtaking relic of a vanished empire and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Built around 1450 under Emperor Pachacuti, this stone-hewn marvel sits at 7,970 feet, cradled by jagged peaks and lush valleys. Its terraced fields, temples, and residences—constructed without mortar—reflect advanced Incan engineering and astronomy, aligned with solstices.
Likely a royal retreat or sacred site, it housed priests and nobles until its mysterious abandonment during Spain’s conquest. Rediscovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, its mist-shrouded ruins emerged from obscurity, revealing a lost world. Spanning 116 square miles, the site includes the Temple of the Sun and Intihuatana stone, tied to Incan cosmology. Today, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,
Machu Picchu draws adventurers via the Inca Trail, its weathered stones whispering of resilience and reverence. At twilight, its silhouette against the Andes evokes a timeless connection with nature and human ingenuity.
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AI image created with Elon Musk's Grok3. Click the album to the right to see all seven.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS to find new exoplanets outside of our solar system launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51 p.m. Viewed from NASA's Kennedy Space Center LC-39 Observation Gantry
A Tesla vehicle seen in Minneapolis with Tesla branding removed and a sticker reading "I bought this before Elon became a fascist.".
SpaceX closed out the year with a beautiful launch from LC-39A at 9 a.m. EST Saturday with the NROL-108 satellite, and topped it off with a landing at LZ-1 on the newly renamed Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It was SpaceX's second mission for the National Reconnaissance Office, and their 26th flight this year.
The #Anasis2 #Falcon9 booster returns
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Just another day for #SpaceX and the #SpaceXFleet
(Pic: me /
@WeReportSpace
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With lightning far offshore of Cape Canaveral, it was a beautiful morning launch for the SpaceX Falcon9 with the crewdragon DM-1, heading to the ISS. Launch occurred at 2:49 a.m. EST from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center
FURY (noun)
Def: 2. violence or energy displayed in natural phenomena or in someone's (Elon?) actions.
This is the 7/25 liftoff of the #SpaceX #CRS18 #Falcon9 rocket, seen from the pad.
9 Merlin engines, 7607 kN of thrust=FURY.
Well done, SpaceX.
I'm a bit vexed by the roiling cloud that is mostly obscuring the rocket. But, considering how little time we had to set cameras (15 minutes) and how long (30 hours) this camera sat outside in seemingly constant rain, I feel incredibly fortunate to have captured anything at all.
And, big thanks to Bill Jelen for picking up the camera that took these photos. I couldn't be at the launch, and I couldn't make it to the Cape Friday morning for remote pickup. Bill covered it all (including sending me the files over the interweb for me to edit), and I remain thankful for his constant assistance.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching the Dragon CRS-2 SpX-29 mission from the Kennedy Space NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 8:28 PM on November 9th. The rocket was carrying the Cargo Dragan which was filled with supplies, including holiday gifts, for delivery to the International Space Station. This stacked image was shot from the beach in Vero Beach, FL which is about 70 miles to the south. The first stage booster landed safely back at Cape Canaveral. If you look closely you can see the streak left by the booster as it separated and began its return.
Scenes of the SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1060.2 returning to Cape Canaveral this (Sunday) AM.
Congratulations to
@elonmusk
& the #SpaceX team on another successful mission!
Well, that was really something.
Yesterday's Tesla Cybertruck launch was certainly eye opening.
I, like many, was wondering when Elon Musk was going to say "Just kidding. It actually looks like this...."
But he didn't.
The specification though, was very impressive. From the corrosion resistant stainless steel bodywork, high-strength windows (despite the unexpected failure when designer Franz von Holzhausen threw the ball at the side windows), and air suspensions which could raise and lower the truck.
Tesla's raison d'être though, is vehicle electrification. Here Musk's vision of an emissions-free world including light-duty trucks led to the creation of the Cybertruck.
To this end, the Cybertruck includes a large battery, providing a vehicle range between 250 miles and 500 miles, depending on the specification. One clear transformation in electric vehicles is startling performance, and the Cybertruck impresses with a 0-60 mph time of 2.9 sec in the highest spec tri-motor model. Even base model performance equals the quickest internal combustion pickup models from competitors.
However, all this was somewhat overshadowed by what everybody watching the launch could see - a vehicle which looked unlike any pickup you had ever seen before, save for perhaps in a sci-fi film set in the future. It was obvious that even the crowd, many of whom were Tesla employees, were clearly shocked at what they saw.
And perhaps this was the point. The Cybertruck is a compelling vision of what a pickup from the future could be. That future is coming sooner than many would believe, thanks to Tesla and the many projects the company has worked on to deliver in the past decade or so.
Still, I was waiting for Elon to roll out the real truck.
[P.S. I know it is very early in the piece to admit this, but the more I look at it the more it grows on me.]