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Eight times launched; Eight times landed.
#SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1051.8 has returned to Cape Canaveral, eager to become B1051.9, no doubt.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch lit up the night sky with the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite at 8:26 p.m. EDT from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
Photos from the early morning return of the now twice launched and landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 first stage to Port Canaveral aboard the drone-ship "Of Course I Still Love You". This follows the successful launch of the #BulgariaSat1 payload. (Photos by Michael Seeley / WeReportSpace)
This is looking out over the campus of Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Florida.
In the foreground is the Panther Aquatic Center, located next to the Clemente Center. The taller building to the left is Crawford Hall, and to the left of that is Skurla Hall (the roof is visible) which houses the College of Aeronautics and Dean Korhan Oyman's office. The tops of the Gleason Performing Arts Center and the Evans Library are visible behind the Clemente Center.
Oh yeah - the faint arc in the sky to the right of the frame? That's a #Falcon9 rocket launched by #SpaceX carrying the #EUTELSAT 117 satellite.
This is a composite of 20 frames, each with an exposure time of 2 seconds, shot through a 10-shot ND filter. The clouds were really not cooperative for this shot so the streak is (obviously) not the easiest to see. Also, one version of this image included what can only be best described as a "velvet Elvis" filter (credit: Jared Haworth for the name), a very vivid HDR sort of thing, but I've elected to post this version with only basic adjustments applied in Lightroom.
At 7:27pm (ET) Sunday, NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and historic LC-39A for their mission aboard the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon, named "Resilience" by the crew, is the first human-rated commercial spaceship, and this launch marks the return of operational spaceflight from American soil.
The #Thaicom8 #Falcon9 first stage, launched (and landed!) by #SpaceX at #sunrise on Friday June 3, 2016, seen in Port Canaveral, Florida.
The Minnesota State Patrol estimates 25,000 gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol this afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
SpaceX launched a spare satellite for Globalstar’s messaging and data relay network at 12:27 a.m. EDT from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
This is Ryan Chylinski, setting gear to capture what I'm certain will be extraordinary footage of the #SpaceX #Crew1 launch tomorrow (Sunday, 11/15).
If you aren't following his and Mary Liz Bender's great work at @considercosmos, you're missing out.
May I present shots of the #EchoStar23 launch by #SpaceX atop a legless #Falcon9 rocket, taken directly from Pad 39A. These shots are from two cameras that I set on Monday, and the cameras sat patiently waiting until 2:00 am (ET) Thursday morning to capture these images.
Although I get to process and post these pictures, it would be a glorious oversight for me to not acknowledge the considerable efforts by Bill Jelen and Mary Ellen Jelen for making these images possible. They checked in on the cameras Tuesday afternoon; they waited for a chance to pick them up at 5:00 am Thursday morning, ultimately returning to the Pad Thursday afternoon for pick up and then sent me the files for processing. Also, Jared Haworth gets a shout-out for the dew heaters that kept the lenses warm and for ever-present guidance.
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Beautiful early morning launch for @elonmusk and the whole @SpaceX team. With #SpaceX #ElonMusk first reuse of the #Block5 #Falcon9 booster, they launched the Indonesian #MerahPutih #Telkom4 #satellite from #SLC40 on the Canaveral Air Force Station / @45thspacewing @NASAKennedy
SpaceX lit up the Florida skies this morning with the latest batch of Starlink 4-17 satellites at 5:42 a.m. EDT, from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. When the rocket exhaust is illuminated by the sun, it starts to look like a space jellyfish.
I took my boat out so I could get up close to the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster B1061.2 with the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft. The NASA Crew-2 mission is scheduled to launch tomorrow morning at 5:49 a.m. EDT.
At 8:02pm (ET) Wednesday night, SpaceX launched the Inspiration4 mission and a crew of all-civilian astronauts to space.
It. Was. Amazing.
Godspeed, Inspiration4!
Pic: me / Nat Geo
SpaceX launched another batch of 49 Starlink satellites yesterday at 4:49 p.m. EST, from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center.
At 6:35pm on Thursday, April 11, 2019 SpaceX successfully launched the schoolbus-sized ArabSat6a satellite atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. Flown only once before, the Falcon Heavy rocket is the most powerful rocket in operation in the world. (Pics: me / We Report Space)
NASA astronaut Robert Behnken, followed by flight surgeon Steve Hart, arrives at Ellington Field near the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 2, 2020, for a welcome home ceremony after a successful splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico for NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Clapping, at bottom left, is flight surgeon Joe Dervay. After spending two months in space, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, carrying Behnken and crewmate Douglas Hurley, splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, at 2:48 p.m. EDT. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch to the International Space Station from U.S. soil since the end of the shuttle program in 2011. The final flight test for SpaceX, Demo-2 will pave the way for the agency to certify the company’s transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. Photo credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, and SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, view the historic Dragon capsule that returned to Earth on May 31 following the first successful mission by a private company to carry supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at the SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas. Bolden and Musk also thanked the more than 150 SpaceX employees working at the McGregor facility for their role in the historic mission. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
a factory tour after the Model S drive on the track.
This one installs the laminated glass roof.
It's amazing how much brighter the factory looks after the floor has been epoxied white, just like they have at SpaceX... and Ironman =)
At 6:35pm on Thursday, April 11, 2019 SpaceX successfully launched the schoolbus-sized ArabSat6a satellite atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. Flown only once before, the Falcon Heavy rocket is the most powerful rocket in operation in the world. (Pics: me / We Report Space)
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At 3:45pm (ET) SpaceX and Elon Musk successfully launched the Falcon Heavy rocket from historic Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.. Approximately 8 minutes after launch, the two outer cores would return safely to SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the center core ran out of fuel needed to relight 3 engines for the re-entry burn. The core was unable to slow its descent and it crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at approximately 300 mph. Musk added that he was most interested in recovering the two outer cores, as they flew with titanium grid fins, which are very expensive to make.
When we were setting up remote cameras about 6 hours before launch, the pad crew was testing the water supression system. Note the people, for scale.
Elon Reeve Musk, aka Elon Musk is the founder, CEO, CTO, and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. Musk is one of the richest people in the world.
This caricature of Elon Musk was adapted from a photo in the public domain from the US Air Force.
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The #SpaceX #DM1 launch was a very big step toward being able to launch astronauts from US soil, possibly as soon as July/August of this year.
The launch (and landing!) seems to have proceeded nominally thus far.
These are some of my photos taken Friday, March 1, 2019 during remote camera setup and, of course, during the launch on Saturday, March 2 at 2:49am (ET).
Welcome home, #Falcon9 booster B1058!
The #SpaceX first stage rolled into port Tuesday morning (January 26) shortly before noon.
SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk, left, speaks with NASA astronaut Bob Behnken on the fixed service structure of Launch Complex 39A during a tour before the early Saturday morning launch of the Demo-1 mission, Friday, March 1, 2019 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission launched at 2:49am ET on Saturday, March 2 and was the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Behnken and fellow NASA astronaut Doug Hurley are assigned to fly onboard Crew Dragon for the Demo-2 mission. (Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The Minnesota State Patrol estimates 25,000 gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol this afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
SpaceX Demo2 launch
Kennedy Space Center
Titusville, FL
30 May 2020
This was billed as the return to manned space flight from American soil. First astronauts to go to space from the US since they retired the space shuttles.
Absolutely nothing special here. Just my first (and failed) attempt at catching a rocket launch now that I live in Florida.
If it looks more like a Bigfoot sighting than a rocket, that’s probably because We never made it all the way to Titusville. Next time I’ll add an extra 3-4 hours of travel time from Tampa because an extra 90 minutes was not enough!
This was shot from the boat launch at the St. John’s river about 10 miles west of Titusville on FL-46.
The cool part of this is that we saw the launch, and the rocket had disappeared from sight for about 1-2 minutes before the sound of the launch made it to my location. We were walking back to the car when I heard it. So, close enough to hear it, but far enough away that it took several minutes to get to us! Pretty crazy if you think about it.
Another crazy thing to wrap your head around: somewhere very near the top pixel in that rocket would be 2 people. Two people about 1 pixel in size, and just look at the size of that flame under them. Who is crazy enough to get THAT close to an explosion of THAT size? You really gotta hand it to astronauts!
At 4:14pm (ET) on Friday, May 11, 2018 SpaceX launched the #Bangabandhu1 satellite atop the first #Block5 #Falcon9 rocket.
(Photos by me / Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
"Crawlerway" or "Something big was here" (working title)
A view of the "crawlerway" at Kennedy Space Center, near historic Pad 39A, now used by SpaceX for Falcon 9 launches. Photo taken during remote camera set-up before the SES10 Falcon9 launch using a "flight proven" Falcon9 first stage.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
The twice-flown (and twice-landed) #SpaceX #Eshail2 #Falcon9 first stage rocket returned to Port Canaveral this afternoon (Monday, November 19, 2018) aboard the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You."
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, and booster landing, with the USSF-67 mission from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 p.m.
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
From the pad: the fury of 9 Merlin engines, pushing the #SpaceX #CRS14 #Falcon9 into orbit.
(Pic: me / WeReportSpace)
At 10:36 am on December 15, 2017, SpaceX successfully launched the #CRS13 payload atop a "flight-proven" Falcon9 booster. The Dragon capsule (also flight-proven) is bound for the International Space Station and contains scientific experiments and supplies for the astronauts onboard.
This launch was the debut of the renovated SLC-40, which has been undergoing repairs following a pad mishap on September 1, 2016.
Approximately 9 minutes later, the Falcon9 first stage would successfully land at SpaceX's "LZ1," treating the Space Coast of Florida to two sonic booms as the first stage descended.
The first stage of the JCSAT-14 Falcon9 rocket launched and then landed by SpaceX, seen here at approximately 11am (ET) on May 14, 2016. The legs have been removed and the rocket is being moved to the SpaceX hangar located at Pad 39a at Kennedy Space Center. (Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Kennedy Space Center, FL. – At 5:56 pm (ET), January 15, 2023, SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy and a top-secret mission titled USSF-67 at Launch Complex 39-A. The mission was for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) and SpaceX's second launch using the Falcon 9 Heavy for the NSSL. This was the fifth launch of a Falcon 9 Heavy by SpaceX and the second in less than three months. On board were two payloads for NSSL, one being a military communications satellite. The side boosters for this mission supported USSF-44 which launched on November 1, 2022. While the center booster core was deemed expendable, the side boosters successfully landed shortly after launch at LZ-1 and LZ-2. In a statement from Assured Access to Space: "We had another fantastic launch today on a Falcon Heavy, just two months after our first National Security Space Launch mission using this launch system, and while the launch itself was impressive, I am most proud of the fact that we placed important capabilities into space that help our nation stay ahead of very real and growing threats," said Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, program executive officer for Assured Access to Space. "We're certainly on a roll with 96 consecutive successful national security space launches, and the takeaway is that we've really got a spectacular team working together on our most challenging launch profiles to ensure our mission partners get on orbit with confidence." Later this week, SpaceX has two additional launches scheduled, the GPS-III-6 from Cape Canaveral SFS and Starlink Group 2-4 from Vandenberg S.F.S. in California.