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An Atlas V rocket lifting a GPS satellite into orbit at Cape Canaveral.
The rocket is 58 meters tall, weights 335 tonnes and costs $100 million a go! The Kennedy Space Center is full of big numbers.
On 5 April 2018, Ariane 5 flight VA242 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites, DSN-1/Superbird-8 and Hylas-4, into their planned orbits.
Credits:: 2018 ESA-CNES-Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG - S. Martin
SUNRISE ~ Smathers Beach ~ Great Egret
The Florida Keys ~ Key West, Florida U.S.A.
*[Key West Vertical Image Series]
*[I don't know why she left!?! I was quiet. LOL]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smathers_Beach
The final bit of early morning fog lifts, as the day's first light illuminates Amicalola State Park. Taken from the balcony at the State Park Lodge -- talk about a room with a view.
A second year Bald Eagle after dining on an Ocean Beach at Copalis in 2014, a small town on the Washington Coast
ESA’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.
Credits: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique video du CSG - S Martin
My final trip of 2023 saw me heading west away from the rain at home to help fill in the gap between Christmas and New Year.
The target was a drake Smew (Mergellus albellus) that has taken up winter residence on a loch near Glasgow. I have seen plenty of the red head females but only previously seen a couple of the black and white males and none for over a decade so didn’t have any decent photos of one of my favourite ducks ever since I got given a bird book as a kid.
The vivid white helping it stand out amongst the other ducks.
A winter visitor to the UK in ever decreasing numbers as the warming winters mean like a lot of our winter visitors they are not having to migrate as far west as they used to.
The only member of the Mergellus family which is linked to the Mergus group of sawbills, albellus derived from the Latin for white. Where the common name Smew comes from is uncertain and first appears way back in the seventeenth century.
Shortly after launch on 14 April, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, captured this image with its Juice monitoring camera 2 (JMC2).
JMC2 is located on the top* of the spacecraft and is placed to monitor the multi-stage deployment of the 16 m-long Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) antenna. RIME is an ice-penetrating radar that will be used to remotely probe the subsurface structure of the large moons of Jupiter.
In this image, RIME is seen in stowed configuration. It will be deployed in stages over the coming days.
The image was taken at 14:19 CEST. JMC images provide 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots. The images shown here are lightly processed with a preliminary colour adjustment.
*Additional technical information: "top" means +Z side of the spacecraft and the centre of the field of view of JMC2 lies roughly in the XY plane. The -Z side of the spacecraft is attached to the launcher, which rotates around the Z axis during the ascent phase.
Credits: ESA/Juice/JMC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
While climbing repeats on Craigowl Hill the sun set spectacularly! I stopped at the summit to catch my breath and enjoy the spectacle... The golden rays touching the snow speckled mountains of the north.
Just moments after snapping this shot, I was hurtling back down the hill at what, on a bike, felt like escape velocity!
Osprey finished her dinner at the top the dead tree's branch and after her usual routine of cleaning her talons, stretching, preening and pooping finally decided: it's time to go... @ Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve
For anyone who has tried to get pictures of a Great Blue Heron knows if you get too close they will take off very fast. I had already got some nice pictures of him so I was ready for that. I put my Canon 40D on 5 shots per second and my 100-400 L IS Zoom lens on panning mode and said go ahead big guy take off. When I saw he was going to Liftoff I started clicking and got these pictures as he flew away barking loudly at me. I shot these pictures at 320th of a second at f/s 8 with an ISO of 250.
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On 30 July 2021, Ariane 5 flight VA254 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites Star One D2 and Eutelsat Quantum into their planned transfer orbits.
Flight VA254 was the 110th Ariane 5 mission.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace - Optique video du CSG - P.Prion
This American bittern allowed me to get within about 15 feet from him. Being so accustomed to watching these beauties remain motionless for long periods of time, I do believe I suffered a cardiac infarction when he suddenly launched skyward.
Brazos Bend State Park, TX
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