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The 7:32pm (ET) liftoff of the #AtlasV & #NROL101 was just after sunset, and the exhaust plume from the SRBs caught the light perfectly.
This was a seriously pretty launch.
Well done,
@torybruno
& Team
@ulalaunch
!
(Camera: me /
@WeReportSpace
from Patrick AFB)
NASA successfully launched the second in a series of next-generation weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 5:02 p.m. EST Thursday.
NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S) lifted off on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
GOES-S mission managers confirmed at 8:58 p.m. the spacecraft’s solar arrays successfully deployed and the spacecraft was operating on its own power.
The satellite will provide faster, more accurate and more detailed data, in near real-time, to track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, coastal fog and other hazards that affect the western United States.
Image credit: NASA/Bill White
It was a beautiful early morning launch for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V, with the Advanced Extremely High Frequency 5 (AEHF-5) satellite. Launch occurred at 6:13 a.m. EDT from #SLC41 on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with support from the 45th Space Wing. Launch was delayed about 30 minutes from the opening of the window, which made for the beautiful light show when the #atlasV greeted the early morning twilight.
Buried in the mega-trail composite version of this #SBIRS #AtlasV streak is a frame (three, actually, but the first and last frames show it very faintly) with a non-blinking streak passing over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station / 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. (high and to the left of the launch streak). In the final version, the trails all but obscure it, so this is a composite with just the launch streak (7:48 pm) and the frame showing the faint streak (7:25 pm).
With the help of Heavens-above.com, I can with reasonable certainty conclude that I caught the OAO 3 rocket body passing overhead. Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 21, 1972 from LC-36 (now leased to Blue Origin), this is an Atlas-Centaur rocket that carried an observatory named "Copernicus" that was at the time NASA's heaviest scientific payload. (Source: WIRED)
The third rocket? In a cool display of 45+ years of rocketry, the brightly lit (and not structurally discernable, sorry) pad to the left of LC-41 is LC-39A, with the Falcon Heavy, upright, and awash in lights.
Also, my thanks to Philip Metzger. I had forgotten about this little streak, but a twitter conversation last night about airplanes in the shot reminded me.
Details:
OAO3 streak is a 30-sec exposure at ISO800 and F5 and the launch streak is a 168-sec exposure at ISO100 and f18. Edits done in Lightroom, composite done in Photoshop and final edits done (again) in Lightroom.
(Photo by Michael Seeley / We Report Space) — at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Mike Fincke, right, watch as a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed flight test designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the system to help the agency certify Starliner to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Well tonights launch went off without a hitch. This was the ULA Atlas V rocket. This mission was carrying the Viasat-3 from SLC-41. The weather was exceptionally clear for a clean shot!!🚀
RD-180 Main Engine and 5 Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket boosters propel the Atlas V off the launchpad.
On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket during rollout from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on August 2, 2021. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing's second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
On May 18, 2022, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket roll out from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed flight test designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the system to
help the agency certify Starliner to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
“Lockheed Martin’s Atlas V 551 AV-010 lifts off from Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying NASA’s New Horizons probe to Pluto, January 19, 2006, at 2:00 p.m. EST.”
This really is an awesome shot of a launch, especially of such an absolutely remarkable mission. AND…it’s a two-fer...Launch Complex 39A is visible in the distance to the left, which would see its next launch, STS-117, nearly a year and a half later on 8 June 2007.
Interesting...outsourced launch photography, and I assume (hope) captioning…which explains the concise, much more likely correct, yet oddly formatted/unpunctuated caption:
www.bpsgroup.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AtlasV-AV010-...
www.bpsgroup.net/who-we-are/vision-values/
Both above credit: Bionetics Photo Services, LLC website
Cool/creative rollout footage:
Credit: Discovery Canada/YouTube
Finally, since I’m sure all (2 - 5) of you were wondering:
“THE ATLAS CODE
The “551” in the rocket’s name is actually a code that provides three important characteristics of the Atlas V:
- The first digit provides the width of the payload fairing in meters.
- The second digit tells the number of solid rocket boosters attached to the rocket.
- The third digit gives the number of Centaur upper stage engines.”
At/from:
www.missionjuno.swri.edu/spacecraft/atlas-v-551-rocket/
New Horizons was the inaugural flight of an Atlas V (551) launch vehicle.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida on Dec. 5, 2019, for the program’s first-ever Integrated Day of Launch Test the following day. The rocket’s booster and Centaur upper stage will be filled with propellants for a full run-through of the launch countdown. The rehearsal is practice for Boeing’s upcoming uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
On August 2, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls out from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Frank Michaux
#SBIRS #AtlasV by United Launch Alliance, on 35mm film
Because of processing time, I get to post these images from last week of the #SBIRS #AtlasV launch by United Launch Alliance for the first time as a #TBT ("Throw Back Thursday").
This was my second foray into film after a 20+ year digital-only run, and this time I was using Kodak Ektar 100 shot with the 40-year-old Canon A1 that used to belong to (and meticulously cared for by) my dad, Wayne A Seeley.
The daytime images of the rocket were taken on January 17, 2018, and the streak was taken during the second (and obviously, successful) launch attempt on January 19, 2018. Even though the media was positioned a bit further away than usual, a 24mm lens wasn't wide enough to capture the streak from the NASA Causeway (where we were moved to because of prevailing winds), and, in retrospect, I should have gone vertical for a bit more of the arc.
But the shots of the rocket at sunset came out great. However, they do merely an adequate job of capturing just how pretty the scene was that night as we were setting up remote cameras.
(Note to self for future film shoots: write down the settings. There is no EXIF data attached to the film.)
And, as with my last roll of film, processing and high-resolution scanning was done by The Darkroom. I'm quite happy with their service.
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lowered onto the Atlas V first stage on Sept. 16, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket begins rollout from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, topped by the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, stand on Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 4, 2019. The vehicle was in place on the launch pad for Boeing's wet dress rehearsal ahead of the upcoming Orbital Flight Test, an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: Boeing
Workers assist as the payload fairing containing NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is lowered onto the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V Centaur second stage in the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida on Oct. 7, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on the ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Launch Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s premier multi-user spaceport, is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
A view from inside the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, as the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lifted by crane for transfer into the facility on Sept. 16, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
This was the view from the beach at Patrick AFB as
@ulalaunch
sent the
@NatReconOfc
#NROL101 mission to orbit atop a Mighty #AtlasV rocket.
The launch was at 5:32pm, just after sunset.
(Pic: me /
@WeReportSpace
; 2x 60-sec exposures)
Workers assist as the payload fairing containing NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is lowered onto the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V Centaur second stage in the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida on Oct. 7, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on the ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Launch Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s premier multi-user spaceport, is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
The United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V 541 rocket first stage is in the vertical position and moved into the Space Launch Complex-41 Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 31, 2022. The Atlas V will launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T). GOES-T is the third satellite in the GOES-R series that will continue to help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events that affect public safety. GOES-T is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-41 on March 1, 2022. The launch is being managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
On May 18, 2022, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket roll out from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed flight test designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the system to
help the agency certify Starliner to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
RD-180 Main Engine and 5 Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket boosters propel the Atlas V off the launchpad.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lifted by crane into the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 16, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The payload fairing containing NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is hoisted up at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Oct. 7, 2021. It will be lowered onto the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V Centaur second stage. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on the ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Launch Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s premier multi-user spaceport, is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Isaac Watson
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, topped by the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, stand on Space Launch Complex 41 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Dec. 3, 2019. The vehicle was in place on the launch pad in preparation for Boeing's wet dress rehearsal ahead of the upcoming Orbital Flight Test, an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: Boeing NASA image use policy.
#SBIRS #AtlasV by United Launch Alliance, on 35mm film
Because of processing time, I get to post these images from last week of the #SBIRS #AtlasV launch by United Launch Alliance for the first time as a #TBT ("Throw Back Thursday").
This was my second foray into film after a 20+ year digital-only run, and this time I was using Kodak Ektar 100 shot with the 40-year-old Canon A1 that used to belong to (and meticulously cared for by) my dad, Wayne A Seeley.
The daytime images of the rocket were taken on January 17, 2018, and the streak was taken during the second (and obviously, successful) launch attempt on January 19, 2018. Even though the media was positioned a bit further away than usual, a 24mm lens wasn't wide enough to capture the streak from the NASA Causeway (where we were moved to because of prevailing winds), and, in retrospect, I should have gone vertical for a bit more of the arc.
But the shots of the rocket at sunset came out great. However, they do merely an adequate job of capturing just how pretty the scene was that night as we were setting up remote cameras.
(Note to self for future film shoots: write down the settings. There is no EXIF data attached to the film.)
And, as with my last roll of film, processing and high-resolution scanning was done by The Darkroom. I'm quite happy with their service.
On May 18, 2022, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket roll out from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed flight test designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the system to
help the agency certify Starliner to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
Google Earth view of the Integrate - Transfer - Launch (ITL) complex, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Meant to be viewed as comparison to the photograph linked to below.
A crane is used to lift the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) first stage of the Atlas V 541 rocket at the Space Launch Complex-41 Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 31, 2022. The Atlas V will launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T). GOES-T is the third satellite in the GOES-R series that will continue to help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events that affect public safety. GOES-T is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-41 on March 1, 2022. The launch is being managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
On July 29, 2021, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 is an important uncrewed mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the new system for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Preparations are underway to lift the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), enclosed in its payload fairing, up into the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Feb. 17, 2022. The satellite will be secured atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket. GOES-T is scheduled to launch atop the Atlas V rocket from SLC-41 on March 1, 2022, at 4:38 p.m. GOES-T is the third satellite in the GOES-R series that will continue to help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events that affect public safety. The launch is being managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, America’s multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V 541 rocket first stage is secured inside the Space Launch Complex-41 Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 31, 2022. The Atlas V will launch the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T). GOES-T is the third satellite in the GOES-R series that will continue to help meteorologists observe and predict local weather events that affect public safety. GOES-T is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-41 on March 1, 2022. The launch is being managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center, America’s multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett