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SpaceX + Demo2 + CrewDragon + LaunchAmerica = American astronauts, American rocket, American soil.
Wow, just, wow.
(Copyright: Michael Seeley / National Geographic)
SpaceX launched the Cargo Dragon on the CRS-27 mission to the International Space Station at 8:30 p.m. EDT.
I took these photos last night from the Barber Bridge in Vero Beach (about 60 miles south of Cape Canaveral), at 12:42 AM as SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink Group 4-12 mission. It deployed 53 Starlink satellites that were added to it's Starlink satellite internet constellation. The first stage booster landed successfully on the drone ship Just Read The Instructions. It was the 12th flight for this booster.
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!
History made: The 6x launched & 6x landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1049.6 returned to Cape Canaveral this (Friday) morning.
Looking out over the Indian River Lagoon in Wabasso, Florida. SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the second COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG-2) radar surveillance satellite for the Italian Space Agency, ASI at 6:11 p.m. EST Monday evening
The Force was strong with this one: The #SpaceX #CRS17 #Falcon9, launched and landed (!!!) as seen from the roof of the VAB.
Congrats, @elonmusk and team, #MayTheFourthBeWithYou!
This was supposed to be a Milky Way composite, but the moisture in the air combined with the rather bright lights around the Vehicle Assembly Building made the shot I had in mind an impossibility. The lights that illuminate the front of the VAB are very bright, so much so that you can see the VAB's shadow in the thin cloud above us (top left of the frame). You can see the cloud of the Milky Way, but it's very faint, and mostly washed out from all the surrounding light.
The main attraction is, of course, the launch and landing of the #CRS17 #Falcon9, creating streaks that cross mid-frame. At the top of the streak, you can faintly see the first stage as it turns around to head back to the Cape. The fuzziness in the frame is from the resulting plume, and it was really lovely -- I underexposed it in my tight shot, but Erik Kuna has a fantastic close-up of it.
Details: Composite, rocket streak frame was ISO100 and 519-seconds at f18, and the star frame was taken 12-minutes before the launch at ISO2500, 15-secs and f2.8.
I should also acknowledge Declan Murphy and his FlightClub.io tool, which was instrumental to planning this shot.
History made: The 6x launched & 6x landed #SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1049.6 returned to Cape Canaveral this (Friday) morning.
Eery show, these chained Starlink satellites, to say the list. It was for the second time I saw them, and luckily, had a more potent camera than an iPhone within the arm's reach.
My first sighting occurred exactly on Dec 25, last year. I thought it might be the lighting system to illuminate the Santa's path across the sky :")
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.
Under an endless New Mexico sky, Awee stood by her roadside table near the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, the wind caressing her long black hair. Her hands, weathered yet steady, crafted turquoise necklaces and silver rings, each piece a story of Navajo pride and resilience.
In the seemingly bottomless gorge, the Rio Grande whispered ancient songs as tourists slowed their cars, A young couple paused at Awee's table, admiring a pendant shaped like a thunderbird. “My grandmother taught me,” Awee said, her voice soft, “turquoise carries the sky’s protection.” They bought it, leaving a couple of crumpled twenties, not even minimum wage for the time she spent making the piece.
As dusk painted Taos Mountain a pale orange, a golden eagle circled overhead, and Awee smiled—her day’s work done. She packed her treasures, the bridge’s silhouette fading behind her old Chevy van, knowing tomorrow she’d return, weaving tradition and love into every sale.
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AI image created with Elon Musk's Grok3. Character is fictional.
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!
The most costly, longest running legal case in the under resourced, unmonitored Home Office for some of its staff.🗽.
All Documentation [every single page] including all Logs on this case are *missing* from all civil service departments.
Home Secretaries with responsibility
▶️Mr. Jack Straw
▶️ Ken Baker - Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords 2024
▶️Ken Clarke KC - Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords 2024
SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:13 p.m. EST.
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
SpaceX launched the latest batch of their Starlink high speed internet satellites with the 4-25 mission, at 9:38 a.m. EDT from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Beautiful afternoon for SpaceX to launch the CRS-26 mission from LC-39A, bound for the International Space Station
Sonic booms galore as the #SpaceX #Transporter2 #Falcon9 booster returned to CCSFS after a successful 3:31pm(ET) launch.
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
#Zuma, launched and landed: a single, 472 second exposure showing the launch (left) and the #Falcon9 first stage landing (right), as seen from Jetty Park. Congratulations, SpaceX!
Details: ISO100, 472 seconds, f18 at 10mm on a Canon 7D2
cc: 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.
Prints available here: www.photosofstuff.xyz/Zuma-by-SpaceX/i-jvvGBm4/A
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.
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Governor: Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
Home Secretary: Kenneth Baker ▶️Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords - London U.K. 2025
Kenneth Clarke - Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords - 2025
Mr. Jack Straw
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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
Five times flown, five times landed: #SpaceX #Falcon9 booster B1051 returned to Cape Canaveral this (Monday) morning after carrying the latest batch of #Starlink satellites to orbit.
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink Group 4-5 mission. The rocket carried 49 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit where they will become part of the Starlink mega constellation, a space based internet communication system.
A rocket, the Moon, and...a headlamp?
In a throwback to February 21, 2019, this is a frame I've had hanging around for a while and only just last night bothered to caption.
There are three streaks in this image, captured on Kodak Ektachrome 100 35mm film in a single, 30-minute exposure. (Standard #filmisnotdead hashtags apply here.)
This is the #SpaceX #Falcon9 #NusantaraSatu launch, and the small streak low on the horizon frame right is the 91% illuminated Moon rising a few minutes after the launch. It was gorgeous, and a few of my colleagues captured terrific images of the first-stage re-entry burn near the Moon. (See: Bill Jelen)
The painful part of this image is, of course, the "drunken pilot" streak (credit : Jenn) entering the frame from the left. That's a photobomber wearing a headlamp, walking into the frame after the launch, obviously unaware that I was letting the camera run for an improbably long exposure. This is obviously an indicator that I need to set up closer to the water, and, no, it wasn't Trevor and his SeeleyImageDestroyer 5000 (this time).
Enjoy.
Details:
30-minute exposure at f22 on Kodak Ektachrome 100, captured using a Canon Elan7 with a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens. Processing and scan by The Darkroom.
SpaceX launched another batch of 49 Starlink satellites yesterday at 4:49 p.m. EST, from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center.
Beautiful twilight launch for SpaceX with the NASA Crew Resupply (CRS-25) mission headed to the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred Thursday at 8:44 p.m. EDT from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Parking lot at retro-futuristic car-hop owned by MAGA-gazillionaire Elon Musk of all people. His new Tesla Diner in Hollywood has two towering movie screens and 80 superchargers and will be open 24-hours a day.
Last night I was able to witness for the third time one of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from all places on the back porch at the house! It's amazing to see something like this in person and to know that Starlink satellites were being delivered to sub-orbit and the edge of space is pretty darn cool!
Just as the laws of physics would espouse the triangles in the sky in the first photograph proceed through the sequence of pictures, each at Eight Seconds of open Shutter time, as a diminishing light trail that is visible approaching the horizon taking seemingly longer to recede from sight. The fixed observer through the camera pictures sees the triangles in one image and then their condensed light trail is seen again and again racing to the horizon. The curvature of path of the satellite and the curvature of the atmosphere of planet Earth combine to make the trajectory through the camera pictures appear to differ and to slow as it takes just the right amount of time to arc on and on returning and repeating the orbital trace of a near Earth bright object.
The triangle lights are being seen in many peoples photographs in 2023 to 2024. There are links to the triangular lights all over the web. With a host of Aurora Borealis hunters looking at the huge current surge in Aurora within the night sky the Triangles have been much seen and widely reported on all around The World. I see some reports that these lights are SpaceX Starlink satellites.
These pictures taken with Minolta16mm f2.8 Fisheye lens, Lightroom and other recognition software believes that it is SAL16F28 a Sony 16mm f2.8 Fisheye lens. There are no lens profile adjustments made to the images. Just as I do not make adjustments to the images to be treated as taken by a Sony Lens I do not try to find out how to undo any incorrect attribution. The two lenses could be very similar even near identical, all I know is that this wonder is from Minolta. This description is way too long, is it oft stated if I had more time then I would send better in fewer words?
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Starlink satellites, the string of lights in the night sky.
youtu.be/GhLXCJ1Gyyc?si=qbiHOTm7PJ5FCeCq
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites light up night sky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg1xn3pd4ro
Passage of Starlink Satellites Aug 28, 2023
The Minnesota State Patrol estimates 25,000 gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol this afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off!” protests.
Just as the laws of physics would espouse the triangles in the sky in the first photograph proceed through the sequence of pictures, each at Eight Seconds of open Shutter time, as a diminishing light trail that is visible approaching the horizon taking seemingly longer to recede from sight. The fixed observer through the camera pictures sees the triangles in one image and then their condensed light trail is seen again and again racing to the horizon. The curvature of path of the satellite and the curvature of the atmosphere of planet Earth combine to make the trajectory through the camera pictures appear to differ and to slow as it takes just the right amount of time to arc on and on returning and repeating the orbital trace of a near Earth bright object.
The triangle lights are being seen in many peoples photographs in 2023 to 2024. There are links to the triangular lights all over the web. With a host of Aurora Borealis hunters looking at the huge current surge in Aurora within the night sky the Triangles have been much seen and widely reported on all around The World. I see some reports that these lights are SpaceX Starlink satellites.
These pictures taken with Minolta16mm f2.8 Fisheye lens, Lightroom and other recognition software believes that it is SAL16F28 a Sony 16mm f2.8 Fisheye lens. There are no lens profile adjustments made to the images. Just as I do not make adjustments to the images to be treated as taken by a Sony Lens I do not try to find out how to undo any incorrect attribution. The two lenses could be very similar even near identical, all I know is that this wonder is from Minolta. This description is way too long, is it oft stated if I had more time then I would send better in fewer words?
© PHH Sykes 2024
phhsykes@gmail.com
Starlink satellites, the string of lights in the night sky.
youtu.be/GhLXCJ1Gyyc?si=qbiHOTm7PJ5FCeCq
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites light up night sky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg1xn3pd4ro
Passage of Starlink Satellites Aug 28, 2023
SpaceX booster B1058 returned to Port Canaveral this morning after its 7th flight, along with the new fairing recovery ship Shelia Bordelon.
On the eve of the SpaceX Starlink5 rocket launch, may I present this long exposure of the Jan 6 Starlink2 launch, shot on 35mm film & received today from the lab. This frame was captured using Kodak Ektachrome E100 film in a 10-minute exposure.
It's faint, but you can see the entry burn low on the horizon, 6-ish min after launch. I waited to send the roll for processing because I was convinced I had forgotten to set it to f22. (Happily, I didn't forget.)
The DSLR version of the scene is here:
Full details:
10-minute (approximate) exposure time at f22 captured on Kodak Ektachrome E100 35mm transparency film using a Canon Elan7 body with a Rokinon 14mm lens. Processing and scan done by The Darkroom.