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The night launch has got to be one of the best reasons for living where I do.
The one aspect of the launch that I have not been able to figure out how to capture is the light show that the rocket puts on in the clouds, last night in particular watching the clouds get brighter and then once the rocket goes above those clouds, watching them dim again. It was quiet the show.
This is a shorter shutter time photo I took of the SpaceX Falcon 9 as it lifted off on Saturday at 5:51 AM. The shot was taken from the beach at Sebastian Inlet State Park.
Launch time: 0044:20 GMT on 15th (8:44:20 p.m. EDT on 14th)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its fifth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight is the 25th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed to June 9, June 10, June 12, June 28, and July 11. [July 4]
Space X leaving the protection of Oxygen
Not the image I was wanting to capture from Starlink 4-20 however, I still like it. Here is a lesson for forgetting to set the ISO, and not using a wide angle lens
I took this shot from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida this evening. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 54 Starlink satellites. The first stage later successfully landed on the drone ship "Just Read the Instructions" which was out in the Atlantic.
The view from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral which is about 70 miles to the north. The rocket launched a set of 48 satellites for the OneWeb satellite internet constellation. The first stage booster landed safely back at Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, 1:12 AM EDT on August 7, 2020. This image was taken from Vero Beach which is about 50 miles (ca. 80 km) south of Kennedy Space Center. This was the tenth Starlink mission. It launched 57 Starlink satellites and 2 BlackSky satellites from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9's first stage was also used in four previous missions landed on the SpaceX drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You".
11-05-20: SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a GPS Satellite for the United States Space Force. I took this photo from Vero Beach which is about 65 miles south of the Kennedy Space Center.
SLC-40, this is the 18th time this rocket has been used and recovered. I believe that is a record for Space X. It was a great launch.
Last week's twilight evening launch of a Falcon-9 from Vandenberg AFB in California. Seen in the clear night sky over AZ.
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This is my first attempt at a shot of a night launch since moving to Florida last month. I inadvertently released the shutter release at only 68 seconds so I didn't get the full arch. It was an amazing experience and I look forward to improving my photographs going forward :-)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 12:07 AM on 11-07-23. The spacecraft was carrying 23 StarLink satellites into orbit. The first stage booster landed on the drone ship Just Read The Instructions which was just north of the Bahamas. This image was taken in Vero Beach, Florida which is about 70 miles south of the launch site.
This photo was taken from Saint Martin Island, specifically from the Java restaurant in Grand Case, on the evening of February 27, 2023 at around 7:20 pm local time. Absolutely was not prepared for it, so photos done using cellphone. Post processing were done on Photoshop and Topaz AI.
The photo captures the SpaceX, launching first Starlink v2 Mini satellites into orbit. The SpaceX Launch was from Cape Canaveral in Florida, which is located approximately 1,300 miles (2,000 km) from Saint Martin Island.
The photo captures the beauty of the rocket plume as it glows and reflects sunlight from high altitudes. The plume appears as a bright, luminescent trail that arcs across the sky, creating a stark contrast against the darkness of the night sky. This effect called Space jellyfish (or jellyfish UFO or rocket jellyfish or in the Google easy search SpaceX jellyfish).
Looks like this is new attraction on Caribbean islands now!
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Rocket launch over Lake Cuyamaca. This caught me by surprise - had I known in advance that this launch was going to happen, I would have used a wider-angle lens to capture the rocket AND reflection on the lake. This one went by too fast.
Elon Musk is the rocket man.
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Not quite Falcon 9
If Falcon 9 doesn't launch in 20 I have a back up they can have.
Go Bob and Doug.
Update:
A beautiful launch so I'll put my rocket away for another day.
There was a meteor that came down, during the launch, I swear it was in frame it must have gotten missed I think I need some work to make these better. I completely missed this one. There is no horizon its just all sky.
Sunday morning view of LC-39A (r), where a SpaceX Falcon 9 waits for the Ax-2 mission, the 2nd private mission to the ISS.
A Crew Dragon spacecraft will carry the Axiom Space crew of 4 to orbit.
Liftoff is set for 5:37pm (ET) & 8-mins later, the booster will return to LZ1.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 17 mission was launched from Cape Canaveral and seen, 101 miles away, from the House Of Refuge on Hutchinson Island near Stuart Florida. Launch time was 3:24AM on March 4th, 2021.
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"Dedicated to those who have gone before us, walk beside us, and rise up behind us in their commitment to telling the NASA story and inspiring the world's future explorers." (KSC Press Site mural)
That's the SpaceX IXPE launch in the background. At 1am (ET) Thursday, it launched from LC-39a at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. It was a terrific show.
I've had this shot in mind since I first saw this mural, but all of the night launches I've viewed from the Press Site have been on a NE trajectory, so they were arching away from the mural.
I was shooting from an elevated location 60-ish seconds away, so 120-seconds or so of the 365-seconds in this exposure were spent jogging to and from the camera. Big thanks to the people at the Press Site for not disturbing the camera (they even gave me a safety cone for it).
Details: ISO100, 365-seconds at f16 with a Canon 6D and 14mm Sigma lens.
This is the Crew-4 launch of April 27, 2022. At 3:52am (ET) a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket carried the Crew 4 mission to orbit, and eventually the International Space Station.
This image is a composite of two images. The first was captured one-minute before the launch, and it shows the Milky Way (ISO3200, 25-secs and f2.8). The second image is the rocket streak, shown in a 308-second exposure (at ISO100 and f16), captured from a location north of Kennedy Space Center, from the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge and the (aptly named) Mosquito Lagoon.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket meets the Moon as another batch of Starlink satellites are sent to orbit.
Alternate title: A Falcon 9 and the Moon walk into a bar...
Big thanks to flightclub.io for helping me know where to stand for this shot, captured in a single shot with a Canon R5 + RF100-500mm w/ 1.4x TC.
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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
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket last night at 7:51 PM. It carried the first of a new generation of GPS satellites into orbit.
The first launch of the year for the Space Coast was a pretty one: At 9:56am (ET) Tuesday, #SpaceX sent a #Falcon9 and the #Transporter6 mission (and 114 payloads) to space.
Falcon 9 Starlink launch. Jim pressed the shutter, but I helped him set it up. Had to buy a 2nd cable release so we can both do this at once:) Before you know it he will have to buy his own camera.
The remainder of what is left from the SpaceX rocket that had an issue during landing on Aug. 28th. spaceflightnow.com/2024/08/28/live-coverage-spacex-to-lau...
This image was taken of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was carrying a payload of 51 Starlink Satellites into a low orbit around the earth. The launch took place at the Vandenberg Space Base, in Lompoc, California. Surprisingly, I was able to take this photo with a Samsung cellphone...
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Another Space Song · Failure
As we were heading home from Carrizo I saw the bright red/pink/ orange flames of a SpaceX rocket launch and told my son to pull over so the four of us could watch. Luckily we were in a wide open agricultural area and the night was crystal clear. It's always fun to go out in the darkness and watch from home too.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket shortly after launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
It was carrying another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit. You can see the first stage, nearly center of the photo after it separated, which comes back to Earth for a vertical touchdown about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. That landing occurs on the deck of the drone ship OCISLY "Of Course I Still Love You", which is stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The first stage will then be reused for future launches. Those two smaller bright spots behind the second stage are the fairings.
As I type this - March 28, 2024 - there will be a launch tonight (3/28/2024) which will be the 30th Falcon 9 flight of 2024, and the 20th dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation. To date, SpaceX has lofted 6,077 Starlink satellites, 5,610 of which are currently operational, according to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.
Those already-staggering numbers will continue to grow far into the future. SpaceX has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink craft in LEO and has applied for approval for another 30,000 on top of that.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center! The CRS-10 mission was the companies tenth commercial resupply service mission to the International Space Station.
What a beautiful site this morning along the Blue Ridge Parkway (MP 95) as the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon mission, Crew-2, with four astronauts headed for the International Space Station flew by. It was very cool to see. If you would like to read more about it, check out this link from my friends at SpaceFlight Insider:
www.spaceflightinsider.com/.../crew-2-dragon.../
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Falcon 9 booster B1062, launched for the 20th time, with the shortest time between launches -- 21 hrs. and 24 minutes. This single 1st Stage has launched 8 astronauts and more than 500 satellites - totaling 261+ metric tons to orbit in under 4 years. Hope all this space junk burns up on re-entry.....
A little cloud cover made for a nice launch this weekend. We didn't get to see the rocket for very long, but it had this nice little glow as it went into the clouds.
A Falcon 9 rocket launch, in February of 2019, was seen at night from the jetty in Fort Pierce, Florida.
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We couldn't have asked for clearer skies for the Monday night #SpaceX #Starlink #Falcon9 launch. I've never framed a shot with the out-to-sea entry burn in mind, but the clear skies (and Declan Murphy's prediction -- more on that in a moment) made me think it would be visible. But 6-ish minutes after launch, there it was, the bright light of the first stage, descending through the atmosphere.
That's my favorite part about this photo -- the thin line above the green post in the water. There's also a bird standing on the green post, just hanging out.
I was in Titusville for this shot, looking across the Indian River at the A. Max Brewer Bridge. There was a significant crowd gathered on the bridge, and it was fun to hear the excited reaction to the launch.
My last trip to this location was back in 2017 for the SpaceX Echostar launch. This was pre-flightclub.io, and I had misjudged the trajectory generally, so I failed to realize (until I saw my shot) that the Echostar launch trajectory was basically due east, which meant my streak was just a short line, straight up. I was not pleased. But, all that was avoided with this launch. And, flightclub well-predicted the location of the entry burn, which was ultimately why I chose this location.
In terms of the anatomy of this photo, there's the first stage (the big streak), the second stage (the faint reddish streaks low on the horizon), the entry burn and 24-minutes of star trails as they spun around the sky before the launch. (The final image is a composite of 52 frames.)
And, thanks again to my We Report Space colleagues, who well-covered the launch up-close.
on 12/26/23 Space X had a rough day at sea. One of the if not the oldest rocket in their fleet tipped over on its way back to port. When I heard about the news, I ran over to the port to see if I could get a picture of the rocket. Its are to see in the image, but you are looking at the bottom of the rocket, half of it is not even on the barge. There are days Ihat I think I have a rough day at work. I am gald to know I am not any of those guys.
Good morning, #Falcon9.
That's not a huge sunspot, it's the #SpaceX #Starlink launch.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the USSF 44 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The mission is to deploy two spacecraft payloads directly into geosynchronous orbit, one of which is the military’s TETRA 1 microsatellite. The Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters will landed at Landing Zone 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and the core stage will be expended.