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The SpaceX #CSG2 COSMO-SkyMed "nebula" in 4 acts, and the dance of the #Falcon9 first stage and the second stage, heading south along the coast of Florida; just incredible!
That wasn't thunder, Space Coast: Liftoff!
At 3:14am (ET) Sunday, the #CRS23 #Falcon9 sent a Cargo Dragon capsule full of goodies to the Space Station.
It was a beautiful launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, & the 90th successful 1st stage landing for #SpaceX.
This is the view from the NASA Press Site shown in a 30-second exposure.
Pics: me / Nat Geo
Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, speaks with NASA International Space Station Program Manger Kirk Shireman, after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in firing room four of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
X marks the spot at SpaceX HQ, formed by 4,000 PV panels from SolarCity.
Meanwhile, as of 3am this morning, the Nevada Senate voted 21-0 and the Assembly 39-0 to approve the four gigafactory bills. "It doesn't get any bigger than this. This is some of the most important legislation that's hit this state in perhaps our history," Republican governor Sandoval said. "We have changed the trajectory of this state, perhaps forever." — WSJ
Oh, we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher ♫ ♪
The Tesla gigafactory will be on Electric Avenue. I will be driving by there tonight and then launching some celebratory rockets to take it higher. =)
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
SpaceX launch with 40 more broadband internet satellites for the OneWeb 17 mission at 2:13 p.m. EST from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Booster B1062 successfully completed it's 13th mission with the landing at LZ-1.
Screenxhot taken from launch . . See for yourself on video feed on youtube . www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqJTscVf_6k&t=18544s T+01-03-50
SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit on Thursday for Mr Musk's new Starlink internet service.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at about 10:30 pm (0230 GMT on Friday), clearing a key hurdle for a business venture that Mr Musk hopes will generate much-needed cash for his larger ambitions in space.
The launch came a week after two back-to-back countdowns for the mission were scrubbed - once due to high winds over the Cape and the next night in order to update satellite software and "triple-check" all systems.
The 60 satellites flown into space were released into orbit as planned about an hour after Thursday's launch, and the Falcon 9's main-stage reusable booster rocket flew back to Earth for a successful landing on a barge floating in the Atlantic.
SpaceX said it would probably take another day to learn whether all the satellites deployed were functioning properly. Each weighs S
paceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into low-Earth orbit on Thursday for Mr Musk's new Starlink internet service.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at about 10:30 pm (0230 GMT on Friday), clearing a key hurdle for a business venture that Mr Musk hopes will generate much-needed cash for his larger ambitions in space.
Launch, recover, repeat: #SpaceX is maintaining an incredible pace. 8 hours after launching the SXM-8 mission, #Falcon9 booster B1067.1 returned to port after sending the CRS-22 Cargo Dragon to the ISS.
(Also, birb.)
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SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk, right, speaks to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, center, and SpaceX Vice President of Propulsion Engineering, Will Heltsley, left, while viewing the OctaWeb, part of the Merlin engine used for the Falcon rockets, at the SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
An on target #SpaceX #Falcon9 launch, and NOT so on target ocean landing, for the first stage booster off the coast of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Launched occurred at 1:16 p.m. EST from #SLC40 with the #CRS16 resupply mission heading to the ISS.
The 4th attempt to launch the #SpaceX #GPSIII satellite ended with (another) scrub. High level winds were the concern this (Saturday) morning.
The next attempt will be Sunday morning at 8:51am (ET).
This was the scene this morning pre-scrub, as a Pave Hawk from the 920th Rescue Wing patrolled the range.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk signs a banner after discussing progress on the Commercial Crew Program with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at the SpaceX Headquarters, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Hawthorne, CA. Photo credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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High resolution photo merge of the #SpaceX #SES10 #Falcon9 "flight proven" first stage, the second time it's been launched and landed. Shots taken from Jetty Park Pier and Port Canaveral as the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship carries the first stage home.
Note the person, for scale.
This is a merge of 5 miages all shot at 200mm, creating a (cropped) image at 8064x4162 (I cropped to the image, not necessarily to any particular print size, sorry)
(Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
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!
Face aux craintes d'une utilisation abusive de l'intelligence artificielle, la plupart des entreprises mettent en place des garde-fous pour enrayer les pires excès de cette technologie.
Mais, Ce n'est pas le cas de X (anciennement Twitter) d'Elon Musk 🤔
X a lancé cette semaine une version mise à jour de son modèle d'IA Grok, dotée de nouvelles capacités de génération d'images optimisées par FLUX.1.
Les utilisateurs ont rapidement découvert que le générateur d'images IA ne comportait que peu ou pas de mesures de protection.
Certains ont commencé à prendre des photos d'une Kamala Harris enceinte avec Donald Trump , de Mickey Mouse en train de tuer et de Barack Obama en train de prendre de la cocaïne …
La plupart des générateurs d'images IA disposent de protections pour empêcher les utilisateurs de prendre des photos de personnages protégés par des marques, de personnes réelles ou d'activités illégales. OpenAI, par exemple, refuse les demandes d'images d'une personne ou d'une entité particulière sur son générateur d'images DALL-E.
Mais le smartphone X d'Elon Musk adopte une approche différente. La plateforme est inondée d'images de personnages populaires comme Pikachu et Dingo en train de faire des choses innommables.
Personne ne sait combien de temps durera l'approche enthousiaste d'Elon Musk concernant les images générées par l'IA.
X fait actuellement l'objet d'une enquête de la Commission européenne pour violation potentielle de la loi sur la sécurité numérique.
Aux États-Unis, les législateurs cherchent des moyens de réglementer les deepfakes et la désinformation générée par l'IA !!! 🤔
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With concerns over AI being misused, most companies are putting guardrails in place to curb the technology’s worst excesses.
Not so at Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) 🤔
X launched an updated version of its AI model Grok this week that comes with new image generation capabilities powered by FLUX.1.
Users quickly discovered there are little to no safeguards on the AI image generator. Some began making photos of a pregnant Kamala Harris with Donald Trump, Mickey Mouse on a killing spree, and Barack Obama doing cocaine …
Most AI image generators have protections in place to prevent users from making pictures of trademarked characters, real-life people, or illegal activities. OpenAI, for example, denies requests for images of a particular person or entity on its image generator DALL-E.
But Musk’s X is taking a different approach. The platform is being flooded with wild images of beloved characters like Pikachu and Goofy doing unspeakable things.
How long Musk’s gung-ho approach to AI images is anyone’s guess.
X is currently under investigation by the European Commission for potential violations of the Digital Safety Act.
While in the U.S., legislators are seeking ways to regulate deepfakes and AI-generated misinformation !!! 🤔
crédit : aiimagegenerator
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Elon Musk (born June 28, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African-born American entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and established SpaceX, a launch vehicle and spaceship manufacturer. He was also one of the original major investors in and the CEO of Tesla, an electric car company.
Photo taken during the early morning of June 23, 2017 as the media was escorted to LC39A to set remote cameras. The BulgariaSat1 satellite is set to be launched later today at 2:10pm on Friday, June 23, 2017.
This is the rocket, stadning upright on the pad, as the sun rises to the right of the frame. (Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
I'm sorry, but, I'm not sorry.
The Press Site flag + countdown clock + rocket (!) combination is just too good to not turn into a Tiny Earth photo.
So, may I present the #KoreaSat5A #SpaceX #Falcon9, in Tiny Earth form.
At 3:34 pm on Monday, 10/30/17 #SpaceX successfully launched the #KoreaSat5A satellite atop a #Falcon9 rocket and, a few moments later, landed the first stage of the Falcon aboard the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship about 400 miles out in the Atlantic.
This is the view from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site, with the countdown clock and the SpaceX webcast visible to the right.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with #Eshail-2 satellite from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A, with support from the 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Viewed from Canaveral National Seashore
Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, left, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Vice President Mike Pence, and Second Lady Karen Pence, wave farewell as NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Demo-2 mission launch, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Nachdem wir den ganzen Abend verzweifelt eine Ladesäule für unseren AUDI gesucht haben .. waren wir mit den Nerven am Ende .. und die Batterien mit 9% auch .. 😣
After desperately looking for a charging station for our AUDI all evening... we were at our wits' end... and so were the batteries at 9%... 😣
Stand Up for Science rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial, National Mall, Washington, DC
"DOGE? To the moon?
Couldn't you have just gone to therapy, Elon?"
Hands Off! Protest in Vero Beach, Florida on April 5, 2025. A large crowd of over 2000 showed up to protest Trump and Elon Musk policies and the havoc caused by DOGE. This was one of 1200 locations where people raised their voices across the nation with more than 5 million participating. Resist!
Photos taken during the early morning of Monday, October 30, 2017 during remote camera setup. The KoreaSat5A payload is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today (October 30, 2017); the launch window opens at 3:34pm (ET) (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
At 10:30 am on Sunday, January 19, 2020, SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon atop a Falcon9 rocket to prove the viability of the capsule's abort system. Shortly after launch, the Crew Dragon intentionally separated from the Falcon9 booster (which was consumed in a fiery explosion) and landed safely eight (or so) minutes later.
Early indications are that the test was a success, teeing up the next, crewed flight. SpaceX founder Elon Musk would later say that he expected humans to fly on the Crew Dragon in the second quarter of 2020.
After the 300 days of flight from Earth to Mars,
and right after landing, pilots would say,
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Elon Musk Airport.
Local Mars Time is ??? and the temperature is 27 °C.
For your safety and comfort, please remain seated with your seat belt fastened... Bla Bla Bla..." :)
took a photo of wall in a cafe.
本当に.. 写真は発見の域に近い。
사진은 발견의 영역과 가깝다. 정말로..! :)
Rollei 35 TE, Agfa Vista 200
Seoul, South Korea - Dec 2018
February 7, 2017. MJB Properties Dock, Fidalgo Bay.
"The Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), formerly known as the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT), is SpaceX's privately funded development project to design and build a system of spaceflight technology and remote human settlements on Mars, including reusable launch vehicles and spacecraft; Earth infrastructure for rapid launch and relaunch; low Earth orbit, zero-gravity propellant transfer technology; and extraterrestrial technology to enable human colonization of Mars. The technology is also envisioned to eventually support exploration missions to other locations in the Solar System including the moons of Jupiter and Saturn." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_System
And we have a successful (and chilly!) launch of the #EchoStar23 satellite atop the #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket, seen here from Titusville and the A. Max Brewer Bridge.
This is a 2.5 minute exposure, but you can hardly tell as the trajectory took the rocket nearly directly away from me, thus eliminating the typical arc (you can see a bit of it though).
(Bonus: wrecked sailboat in the foreground)
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
WARNING: Long caption and preposterous image ahead. Milky Way/Astrophotography purists should probably turn around now.
I spent a lot of time leading up to the #Telkom4 #SpaceX launch laboring over how to do something visually unique. I'm incredibly fortunate to have a fantastic vantage point for the launches, the ITL Causeway at 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., but, particularly lately, launch streak pics shot off-base have been stealing the show. For the last two or three launches I didn't set remote cameras, so my only shot at a view of the rockets is from the causeway, so, resigned to the "usual" streak shot, the causeway was again where I went.
I made the right choice.
The view of the night sky was truly spectacular, so much so that you could make out the Milky Way (faintly, mind you) with the naked eye, wrapping directly overhead. After I set up the time-lapse for the star trail shot, I pointed another camera toward the south (and the Milky Way, left of this frame) for a long exposure, and voila, there it was, even with a considerable amount of light pollution from the Port and points south. Without even knowing what I was going to do with the images, I then panned up, straight up, and the rotated the camera 180 degrees toward the North and then panned down, for five shots total. Naturally, the north-facing shots captured the Falcon9 rocket sitting on the pad (and more light pollution from the xenon lights at the pad), along with Jacques V Oene, setting up his cameras (right of this frame). Later, I simply fed these images into Photoshop and asked for a photo merge, and this is what it produced, and quickly, I might add. It's far from the perfect merge, and the more I look at it, the more I can see the seams between the frames, but I'm presenting it as it arrived. And, to make this Frankenstein of an "Inception" type of image complete, I (of course, right?) added the launch streak to the frame for perspective or something. Or, just because I could.
While I realize this image is over the top (a Velvet Elvis of a picture, as Jared would say, or rather, has said), and shouldn't be viewed as a sky atlas, it only slightly captures the majesty of what we get to witness here on the Space Coast. And for this (and every) launch, it's fun to be surrounded by people who also see this beauty for what it is: genuinely magical. (MaryLiz Bender and Ryan Chylinski even brought a telescope with them for stargazing while we waited for the launch -- how cool is that?)
TL;DR: The night sky is beautiful, and I may or may not have gotten carried away with this freak show of a photo merge and composite.
Details:
Sky photos were shot at 15-secs, ISO2500 and f2.8 and then the launch streak was shot at 191-secs, ISO100 and f18, all with a Canon 5D4 and a 16-35mm lens.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with the Axiom-2 mission headed to the ISS at 5:37 p.m. EDT, from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL. – This afternoon, June 17, 2021, SpaceX launched the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) III-5 Mission. The previously flown Falcon 9 booster roared to life at 12:09 PM EDT from launch complex 40. The GPS III-5 was built by Lockheed Martin for both military and civilian uses was placed into orbit and shortly after launch, the first stage made a successful landing on the recovery ship “Just Read the Instructions”.
Pictures of the launch and landing of the #CRS12 #Falcon9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule of #ISSCargo to the International Space Station, seen from the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The successful launch (and landing) took place at 12:31pm (ET) on August 14, 2017 from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. (Pictures by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Liftoff of the Crew-3 mission! At 9:03 pm (ET) Wednesday night, a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, sending a Crew Dragon capsule and its crew of 4 astronauts to orbit. NASA's Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer are going to the International Space Station.
Elon Musk, SpaceX Chief Engineer, left, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Vice President Mike Pence, and Second Lady Karen Pence, are seen as NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Demo-2 mission launch, Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)