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Liftoff!
At 3:13am (ET) Thursday morning, a #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket sent a batch of #Starlink satellites to orbit, seen here from CCSFS.
It was a lovely night, clear enough to see the reentry burn over the Atlantic.
We went to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest near Bishop, California. It is home to the oldest trees in the world - some of the bristlecone pines exceed 4000 years of age.
We left after sunset. Driving into the beginning of the night I noticed a faint red line going straight up into the sky facing south. I stopped our van so that we could watch this unusual scene. The line turned into a red glow - at that time I knew it was a rocket launch. I suspected a SpaceX launch from southern California, but was not sure. The red glow turned into a white cone. The cone grew and grew to an enormous size - it's the ever expanding exhaust gases, illuminated by the sun.
Later on I found out that it was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 07:21 pm local time. It successfully delivered Argentina's SAOCOM-1A Earth-observation satellite to orbit.
I took this handheld shot with the f/0.95 Dream Lens. To get a sense of scale of the exhaust gases, the wide side of this image has about a 40° angle of view based on the 50mm lens on the full frame Sony A7 II camera. Assuming it is located at a 45° angle above the horizon, and the launch site is 220 miles away, I estimate that the exhaust gases cover a distance of about 300 miles, or 500 km! It was a jaw dropping event.
I processed a soft HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
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-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 0.8 sec, ISO 1250, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC4063_hdr1sof3c.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
SpaceX Falcon9 launches the Starlink 12-17 mission from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in front of a full moon
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.
space-x falcon 9 rocket launch over the pacific ocean from vandenberg AFB, as seen from venice beach. 115 second exposure. nikon D7000 + nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VRII. RAW processed in photoshop + nik color efex + alienskin exposure.
From the Space X launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB (California) on October 7, 2018. This is the separation of the rocket and booster, which are now headed in opposite directions.
A team effort between Jim and I, we captured the launch of the Space X Crew 6 at 12:34 AM. On it's way to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft
I shot this image from the beach in Vero Beach which is about 65 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. The SpaceX Falcon 9 can be seen lifting the Crew Dragon into the cloud cover. The Dragon is carrying NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They will rendezvous with the International Space Station about 27 hours after launch.
We went to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest near Bishop, California. It is home to the oldest trees in the world - some of the bristlecone pines exceed 4000 years of age.
We left after sunset. Driving into the beginning of the night I noticed a faint red line going straight up into the sky facing south. I stopped our van so that we could watch this unusual scene. The line turned into a red glow - at that time I knew it was a rocket launch. I suspected a SpaceX launch from southern California, but was not sure. The red glow turned into a white cone. The cone grew and grew to an enormous size (see previous photo) - it's the ever expanding exhaust gases, illuminated by the sun. Later on, the big gas cloud became dimmer and dimmer, and you could see the rocket climb higher and higher into orbit. I took this handheld shot with the f/0.95 Dream Lens. It was a jaw dropping event!
Later on I found out that it was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 07:21 pm local time. It successfully delivered Argentina's SAOCOM-1A Earth-observation satellite to orbit.
I processed a soft HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 0.6 sec, ISO 2000, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC4070_hdr1sof1j.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
#SpaceX, Thursday morning: one #Falcon9 in flight and another Falcon9 in the Port getting ready to fly again.
I had heard about this launch in advance and wanted to photograph it from my patio, as we have an almost unobstructed view to the west. I set up in advance and the launch occurred at exactly 8:40 pm PT and appeared as a tiny red streak to the northwest. Then the streak became a larger white-ish streak heading south. Eventually this "fish" shape formed, and then the payload streaked to the south. In this image, a small white "something" can be seen in the exhaust, which is the first stage booster, which then flew itself to a drone ship sitting in the Pacific Ocean to the south. Amazing (although I still don't like EM - ha!).
From lower North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains, San Diego County, California.
June 18, 2024
Launched and landed 16 times:
At 11:58pm (ET) Sunday, #SpaceX sent a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit making Falcon 9 booster 1058 the new fleet leader with 16 (!) launches and landings.
one more look at tonight's Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg as seen in San Diego. The smaller trail near the center of the image is the first stage heading back to the pad for a successful landing.
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.
I took this photo in the wee hours of the morning from the beach at Sebastian Inlet State Park which is about 50 miles (ca. 80 km) south of the Kennedy Space Center. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 58 Starlink satellites and 3 Skysats into orbit successfully. The first stage also landed on the SpaceX drone ship Of Course I Still Love You. The view from the beach as the rocket launched and the satellites deployed was spectacular.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, Pacific time (Nov. 24 Eastern time) from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. DART is the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. The mission was built and is managed by Johns Hopkins APL for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Starlink 4-20 takes flight!
At 10:09pm Sunday, #SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit atop a many times flight-proven #Falcon9 rocket. This was the view from a busy A. Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches the Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft to the International Space Station for the CRS-25 mission, seen all the way from Freeport, in the Bahamas. With it being a clear evening and the rocket launching roughly twenty minutes after sunset, it created this distinct "jellyfish" effect in the sky thanks to the way that the already set sun hit the gases exhausted by the craft. With it lighting up the sky in this way and my first experience watching a launch from another country, this is now one of my favorite launches ever!
SpaceX started Star Wars Day right, launching a batch of Starlink satellites at 3:31am (ET) on Thursday, May 4th.
This is the Falcon 9 rocket streaking across the sky seen from Palm Shores, Florida.
#maythe4thbewithyou
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spits fire as it lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 23 April at 05:49 local time. On board are ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
The crew of four spent around 23 hours orbiting Earth and catching up with the International Space Station after their launch before docking to the Node-2 Harmony module, marking the start of ESA’s six-month mission Alpha.
Thomas is the first European to be launched to space on a US spacecraft in over a decade. The new Crew Dragon ships four astronauts at a time, allowing more people to live and work on the International Space Station doing more research for scientists on Earth.
Alpha is Thomas’ second space mission, and everything is set to be bigger and brighter. A Russian laboratory module, scheduled to arrive in the summer with a European robotic arm, will offer more ways of maintaining the International Space Station and supporting spacewalkers as they work outside. Thomas will help set up this arm and prepare it for use during the Alpha mission.
Over 200 international experiments are planned during Thomas’ time in space. Of the 40 European ones, 12 are new experiments led by the French space agency CNES.
At the end of the Alpha mission in October, Thomas will take over commander of the International Space Station for a brief period and welcome ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on his first flight to space.
Latest updates on the Alpha mission can be found on Twitter @esaspaceflight, with more details on ESA’s exploration blog.
Background information on the Alpha mission is available here with a brochure.
Credits: SpaceX
"Freedom lies in being bold" (Robert Frost)
Happy 4th of July from the Space Coast of Florida
(📷: me, SpaceX CRS-22 launch, June 3, 2021)
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021, Pacific time (Nov. 24 Eastern time) from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. DART is the world’s first full-scale planetary defense test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology. The mission was built and is managed by Johns Hopkins APL for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
SpaceX Falcon9 booster B1067 is back in town returned to Port Canaveral after the TurkSat5B mission, seen here with the 80% illuminated waning gibbous Moon rising behind it. I had hoped for a shot with the Moon higher (and therefore better defined), but low clouds obscured the Moon shortly after it was first visible on the horizon.
Of the genus Nine, species SpaceX. Flying over LA the other night, launched from Vandenburg Space Base. Just a fast snap. Saw it and had my camera with a f1.4 lens on.
The Starlink Falcon9 rocket meets the Milky Way, with the downrange second stage plume lit by the rising Sun. It was a lovely scene.
This was a milestone 9th flight for this booster. Well done, Elon Musk & team!
(Pic & quick field edit by me / We Report Space)
Edited to add details:
This is a composite of 3 frames:
1. Milky Way, captured 5 minutes before launch (ISO 3200, f1.8 and 13-seconds)
2. Rocket launch (ISO100, f16, 191-secs)
3. Downrange plume, 7-mins after launch (ISO2500, f2.0, 10-secs)
Stacked as layers (with minimal masking) in Photoshop.
I'd be entirely remiss if I didn't recognize the inspiration of Mike Killian, John Kraus and Erik Kuna, all of whom captured lovely similar images of the last launch. They were on the other side of the river, shooting over the ocean; if you haven't seen their shots, go check them out now.
Falcon Heavy rocket – essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together – produced five million pounds of thrust to lift off from pad 39A on an easterly trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean. The heavy-class rocket boosted Jupiter 3, the largest communications satellite ever built by Maxar Technologies, to geostationary orbit for EchoStar.
A #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites to orbit flying by the recently Full Moon, seen Tuesday night from Titusville, FL in a 256-second exposure.
It was a beautiful, clear night for a launch.
At 3:10am (ET) Monday, SpaceX sent a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit.
This was the view from Titusville as the Falcon 9 passed near the crescent Moon.
While you were sleeping (probably): At 3:10am (ET) Sunday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, sending a batch of Starlink satellites to space.
This was a particularly beautiful launch (hopefully, the 1st of 2 today), seen here from Merritt Island over the Banana River, with bonus lightning over the Atlantic.
For the first time in several nights, the rumble coming from the skies Sunday night wasn't thunder: #SpaceX successfully launched (& later landed) a #Falcon9 rocket carrying another batch of #Starlink satellites to orbit.
This was the view from Cocoa Beach & the Banana River:
Another look at the Tuesday night #CRS27 #SpaceX #Falcon9 launch.
This is a 135-sec exposure captured from the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
(I was hoping for max reflection in the water, and ended up clipping the top of the streak.)
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B as the Artemis I launch team prepares for the next attempt of the wet dress rehearsal test, right, as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1), Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ax-1 mission is the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Ax-1 crew members Commander Michael López-Alegría of Spain and the United States, Pilot Larry Connor of the United States, and Mission Specialists Eytan Stibbe of Israel, and Mark Pathy of Canada are scheduled to launch on April 8 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Type: Communications
Launch Cost: $52,000,000
A batch of 34 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation – SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system. BlueWalker 3 is a rideshare test satellite for AST SpaceMobile’s planned space-based cellular broadband network.
A #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket meets the 98.9% illuminated Moon as it carries the Intelsat G-33/G-34 payload to orbit.
What a show this was. Well done,
@elonmusk
& team!
This is my favorite photo from the roll of 35mm film I recently had processed, a long exposure of the SpaceX Starlink L22 launch of March 24, 2021.
It was a pretty scene, in particular, because the Banana River (I was in Cocoa Beach, on the northside of Rt. 520) was rolling just enough to reflect the rocket plume as a series of squiggles in the water. When the digital version of this shot was named Earth Science Picture of the Day ("EPOD"), I learned that this effect is called a "glitter path," two words I never thought I'd use, at least not adjacent to each other.
Details: 300-second exposure at f16 and ISO100, captured on Kodak's Ektachrome E100 transparency film with a Canon Elan7 + EF17-40mm f4L lens. Processing and scanning were done by The Darkroom.
I was also shooting the scene with a DSLR closer to the water (you can see the screen in the lower right corner), and that frame is here: flic.kr/p/2kNENFR
How to launch and land a rocket five times; a master class by Elon Musk and #SpaceX.
This was the epic view of the #Starlink #Falcon9 launch from Titusville, Florida and the A. Max Brewer Bridge.
Liftoff was at 1:12am on Friday, August 7, 2020.
(Pic: me/ @WeReportSpace)
The first flight of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Demo-1. Crew Dragon streaks into orbit for the first time. This was photographed from the Wabasso Bridge. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from historic Launch Complex 39A with the new, uncrewed capsule at 2:49 A.M. EST. A perfect launch, notice the little blue color in the trail!
SpaceX Falcon 9 10_21_23 Launch
Last nights Launch of SpaceX Falcon9 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight at seen from Ballast Point Park in Tampa (about 120 miles away).
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches the twenty-second batch of Starlink satellites at 6:01 this morning, just before the first light of the morning. This is actually the first Falcon 9 booster to successfully launch and land nine times, thus being the current fleet leader. I must also wish you happy Pi Day, which is the perfect holiday to launch a rocket on!
Liftoff!
That's the SpaceX Falcon9 rocket carrying the GPSIII-SV04 satellite to orbit, with a special guest appearance by Mars (to the right of the streak).
The successful launch took place at 6:24 pm (ET) on November 5, 2020, from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Congratulations to Elon Musk and the entire SpaceX team!
A snapshot of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket seen as it passed along the California coast. Launched from Vandenberg. I think what is seen here is just after the separation of the booster and the ignition of the second stage. One interesting thing is the booster drops off and lands back at it's drop zone to be inspected and reused. This shot was handheld, 1/30s f3.5 ISO-102,400. 28mm