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Moon over a beach pavilion after the SpaceX launch with the Amazonas Nexus geostationary communications satellite
While (much of) the Space Coast slept, stars moved in the sky, the Moon rose, and #SpaceX launched (& landed) a #Falcon9 rocket (sending 60 #Starlink sats to orbit), all shown here in this 38-minute mega composite of images captured early Thurs AM in Titusville.
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#SpaceX #Starlink launch streak with bonus re-entry burn low on the horizon, seen here from the A. Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville.
It was a beautiful (and chilly) night for a #Falcon9 launch.
The Space Coast Zero-G Indicator Club met last night to watch the SpaceX Starlink launch.
Earth & Tremor (probably): "Don't worry, Snoop, you'll get up there soon."
Snoopy (definitely): "You whippersnappers know I orbited the Moon, right?"
(255-second exposure by me; you can see me in the background, standing remarkably still for a 4-minute exposure)
SpaceX lit up the Florida skies this morning with the latest batch of Starlink 4-17 satellites at 5:42 a.m. EDT, from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. When the rocket exhaust is illuminated by the sun, it starts to look like a space jellyfish.
The #Anasis2 #Falcon9 booster returns
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Just another day for #SpaceX and the #SpaceXFleet
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying several Starlink satellites into orbit on July 28, 2024. This image was shot from Vero Beach which is about 70 miles (112Km) to the south of the launch site in Cape Canaveral.
Saturday night lights in Satellite Beach!
SpaceX sent the Turksat5B satellite to space atop a Falcon9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, FL at 10:58pm (ET).
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
Beautiful night for the SpaceX launch with 51 more Starlink broadband internet satellites and the Spaceflight built Sherpa-LTC orbital transfer vehicle carrying Boeing's Varuna Technology Demonstration Mission (Varuna-TDM) to test broadband V-band communications.
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.
I'm old enough to remember when we used to freak out over a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that had landed once or twice. We'd give them names like "Sooty" and "Extra Crispy."
Please meet the just returned B1049.7, launched & landed SEVEN times.
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
At 7:29am (ET) Tuesday, SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink communications satellites from Kennedy Space Center’s LC-39A.
This is the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the payload to orbit, seen from Titusville transiting the Sun shortly after sunrise.
Photo: Michael Seeley / @mseeley20
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?
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Starlink satellites, the string of lights in the night sky.
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Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites light up night sky
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Passage of Starlink Satellites Aug 28, 2023
I am smitten with Starman. I just think it's an astounding feat brought about by a dedicated group of hard working people. The thing that is getting me is I am reading so much comment that it is a fake event because there are no stars showing. Yet people are looking at a Peter Lik moon shot and calling it real and it's not (Turns out it's confirmed by Lik as composite). I had to do my own parody shot this week as a tribute to all of it. The difference in mine,, you can see stars so it must be real!
Almost there: The #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket carrying the Intelsat G33/G34 payload approaches the almost full Hunter's Moon.
Falcon 9 meets the Moon: the wide view.
The only option I could find for a rocket/lunar alignment was along this narrow road, the A. Max Brewer Parkway, in Titusville. Although there's water (and things that live in the water) nearby, there was no clear view of the horizon for any reflection. But, the bright smudge is the 95% illuminated Moon, and you can see how far into the flight the transit occurred.
I come at this with a clear (and obsessive) bias, for sure, but it's always funny to me that at 11:44 pm, there are people awake and not watching the rocket. I'm referring to the car (frame left) speeding toward me, causing me to end this exposure after 168-seconds to save the frame from the headlights.
Details: 168-secs at ISO320 and f18 at 16mm with a Canon 5D4 / EF 16-35mm.
At 5:04pm (ET) Wednesday (6/29), SpaceX launched the SES-22 payload atop Falcon9 booster B1073.
Cloudy skies made for a moody backdrop as the rocket thundered off the pad.
Views from the pad were captured with sound-activated cameras.
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The #SES10 #Falcon9 launch by #SpaceX w/ the "flight proven" #CRS8 1st stage, seen from the pad. (Pic by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
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D'ICI À 2030, TESLA PRÉVOIT DE PRODUIRE PRÈS DE 20 MILLIONS DE VÉHICULES ÉLECTRIQUES... PAR AN !!!
Un volume qui devrait accompagner une tendance mondiale, portée par des réglementations visant à restreindre puis à interdire la vente d'une partie des véhicules thermiques.
Mais cette évolution ne se fera pas sans poser un problème majeur, qui risque d'affecter de nombreux aspects de notre vie quotidienne.
Or, pour alimenter des milliers... pardon, des millions de véhicules électriques, il faut beaucoup d'électricité !!!
Selon PG&E, distributeur d'énergie pour une grande partie de la Californie, la demande pourrait augmenter de 70 % durant deux prochaines décennies.
Le cabinet McKinsey, quant à lui, prévoit une augmentation de 100 % pour l'ensemble des États-Unis d'ici à 2050. Or, au pays de l'oncle Sam, la production n'a augmenté que de 1 % chaque année depuis le début du siècle, une échelle que l'on retrouve par ailleurs dans d'autres pays développés.
Un véritable casse-tête pour Elon Musk, qui prévoit déjà d'importantes pénuries d'électricité dues à la faiblesse de l'offre au cours des deux prochaines années. « Je n'insisterai jamais assez sur le fait que nous avons besoin de plus d'électricité », a-t-il déclaré lors d'une conférence sur l'énergie. « Quelle que soit la quantité d'électricité dont vous pensez avoir besoin, il nous en faut plus ».
Il existe un autre secteur, dont je vous parle de temps en temps sur cette galerie et qui aura besoin de beaucoup d'électricité dans les années à venir …
L'utilisation croissante de l'intelligence artificielle, et en particulier de programmes tels que ChatGPT, promet de consommer de plus en plus d'énergie et de ressources à mesure qu'elle évoluera et se généralisera !
Pour le milliardaire sud-africain, des pénuries pourraient freiner le développement du secteur, ce qui est une mauvaise nouvelle à la fois pour ses projets d'IA, mais aussi pour d'autres aspects de ses activités !
RESTE À SAVOIR SI L'UN DES ÊTRES HUMAINS LES PLUS INFLUENTS DE LA PLANÈTE PARVIENDRA, COMME IL L'A FAIT AVEC L'AUTOMOBILE ET LE SPATIAL, À DONNER UN NOUVEL ÉLAN AU SECTEUR DE L'ÉLECTRICITÉ... 🤔
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BY 2030, TESLA PLANS TO PRODUCE NEARLY 20 MILLION ELECTRIC VEHICLES... PER YEAR !!!
A volume that should accompany a global trend, driven by regulations aimed at restricting and then prohibiting the sale of some internal combustion vehicles.
But this development will not happen without posing a major problem, which is likely to affect many aspects of our daily lives.
But to power thousands...sorry, millions of electric vehicles, you need a lot of electricity!!!
According to PG&E, energy distributor for much of California, demand could increase by 70% over the next two decades.
McKinsey, meanwhile, predicts a 100% increase for the whole of the United States by 2050. However, in the land of Uncle Sam, production has only increased by 1% each year. since the beginning of the century, a scale that is also found in other developed countries.
A real headache for Elon Musk, who is already forecasting major electricity shortages due to weak supply over the next two years. "I can't stress enough that we need more electricity," he told an energy conference. "However much electricity you think you need, we need more."
There is another sector, which I tell you about from time to time on this gallery and which will need a lot of electricity in the years to come...
The increasing use of artificial intelligence, and in particular programs such as ChatGPT, promises to consume more and more energy and resources as it evolves and becomes more widespread!
For the South African billionaire, shortages could hamper the development of the sector, which is bad news both for his AI projects, but also for other aspects of his business!
IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL HUMAN BEINGS ON THE PLANET WILL SUCCEED, AS HE DID WITH THE AUTOMOBILE AND THE SPACE INDUSTRY, IN GIVING A NEW IMPETUS TO THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR ... 🤔
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SpaceX launched the Amazonas Nexus geostationary communications satellite for Hispasat at 8:32 p.m. EST
The SpaceX fleet is on full display to welcome home B1062 after the Inspiration4 launch.
It's hard to imagine a more successful mission: 4 new astronauts, millions of people inspired, hundreds of millions of $$ raised for St. Jude.
This will be a hard act to follow.
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SpaceX launched a spare satellite for Globalstar’s messaging and data relay network at 12:27 a.m. EDT from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
The weather cleared up nicely for the Monday night #SpaceX #Starlink launch, seen here from Cocoa Beach.
The launch was nominal; the #Falcon9 1st stage was not recovered.
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The Catalina mountains to Tucson's north are almost totally obscured by low lying clouds, commonly called fog. I had to increase the contrast a bit to enable you to see the mountains at all. This is just the way it looked to me in person, some of the time. and some the time the mountains disappeared completely...
Photo taken after lunch at 1:50 pm in the Parking lot of Eli's Deli at the Corner of 5th Street and Rosemont Ave. I like the Solar power generating panels over the parking of what used to be the Duffy School, across the street from the Deli. The school building now contains Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) administration offices.
It rained last night and it is still drizzling today. Rio Magnolia is flowing on Magnolia Street between Third and Speedway. It's not a high volume flow at all. It was really just drizzling in the afternoon, but it rained heavily early this morning.
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It was a beautiful evening for the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster B1062 to launch the GPS-III SVO4 satellite at 6:24 p.m. EST from SLC-40
The SpaceX Falcon9 GPSIIISV06 launch was initially scheduled for 7:10 am (ET) Wednesday, January 18, 2023, or 5 minutes before sunrise. A crescent Moon was in the sky, so I planned to line up the rocket with the Moon. To do so required me to be at a specific location on Playalinda Beach, .6 miles from the nearest parking spot. I got there early enough to get a place in the closest lot and started the march along the beach with not-weightless gear in tow. By 6:40,
I was approaching the pin on my map when I got the text from none other than Mr. John Kraus: "NEW T-0 7:24."
Back to the car I went, my watch screaming at me, wondering if I was working out, and eventually, having a cardiac event.
I headed west, and with the quick help of PhotoPills, The Photographer's Ephemeris, and flightclub.io, John and I settled on a location in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. I reached it at 7:08 pm, just enough time to find a break in the trees and set up gear. The Sun rose at 7:15, and it wasn't immediately clear that it would make it over clouds low on the horizon, but with 4 minutes to spare before launch, the Sun (with all its sunspots) was where it needed to be, and at 7:24, so was the rocket.
It was magical.
John's shot is really great, you should go check it out, and if you aren't following him, you should be. Find him at John Kraus Photos.
Captured using a Canon R5+RF100-500L & 1.4x TC.
It was a very beautiful early morning launch for SpaceX with the NASA Crew-2 mission headed for the ISS. The mission was SpaceX’s third crew flight, and first with a reused booster B1061.2, and the first reuse of Crew Dragon Endeavour. Launch occurred at 5:49 a.m. EDT from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center. This is a composite of 2 images, one for the stars and the other for the launch.
Liftoff!
At 12:26am (ET) Sunday, #SpaceX launched the #SXM8 satellite atop a flight-proven #Falcon9 rocket. Minutes later, the booster was successfully recovered.
This was the (cloudy) view from Palm Shores, 25-miles south of the pad. After MECO (main engine cutoff), the clouds pretty much blocked the second-stage burn,
Note the interesting pillar of light in the cloud -- that's not a lens flare; it was visible to the naked eye as the rocket flew through the cloud low on the horizon. It was quite cool.
Pic: me / We Report Space
Starlink v27 redux: the wide view.
My plan all along was to try (again) for a launch streak with the Milky Way as a background. I wasn't looking forward to repeating the shot from Beacon 42, but I thought it was my only (or at least the most convenient) option on the Mosquito Lagoon. Thanks to intel from the great Ben Cooper, I swung into another location on the way to Beacon 42. I hadn't run into any traffic on the way, and it was well after 2:00 am, so I was expecting to encounter maybe some alligators, at best.
Not only was the parking lot open, but I was surprised to find a sizable group of stargazers set up, probably there to try to catch the Chinese rocket that crashed to Earth last night. They were a friendly group, although I half expected them to get pitchforks and take to arms over the rocket sending 60 more of the alleged night-sky-wrecking Starlink satellites to orbit. By the 2:42 am launch, much of the group had departed. The few that stayed were excited and snapped photos of the rocket with their phones. (You can see them silhouetted by their cars.)
I captured this frame with a backup camera that was an afterthought, using a lens, the fish-eye, that I wish I had used on one of my "main" cameras, set up on tripods in the water off the (floating) dock (frame left). I like the fuller, arching view of the Milky Way (although I could do without the cars).
It was a beautiful scene, and congratulations to the SpaceX team for reaching the milestone of 10 successful reuses of an orbital class booster, the Falcon9 booster B1051.
Details:
Composite of two frames, both captured with a Canon 6D + Rokinon 12mm full-frame fish-eye lens, unmoved between frames. Frame 1 was for the Milky Way, shot at ISO3200, 25-secs, and f2.8, captured at 2:37 am. Frame 2 was for the streak, shot at ISO200, 301-secs, and f18 at 2:41 am (I opened the shutter and went to fuss over the camera in the water). They were stacked in PhotoShop, with final edits in Lightroom.
SpaceX launched the Cargo Dragon on the CRS-27 mission to the International Space Station at 8:30 p.m. EDT.
I was capturing some sunset pictures at La Jolla shores. When I was about to leave the beach, I saw something special rising over the Ocean. I turned around to the beach and captured the whole process. Later, I searched on internet and learned that it was the launch of Falcon 9 by Space X at Vandenberg Air force base. It was so cool to witness this.
This is the SpaceX Starlink v? launch of Feb 15, seen from a slightly different and wider angle. (I've lost track of the numbering, hence the question mark.)
This was from my backup camera, and I'm actually finding this to be a more pleasing frame than the tighter frame I first posted. To me, this is a very Space Coast view.
There's a cool landmark in the sky just to the right of the streak, the Big Dipper, in motion over the course of this 255-second exposure.
I'm looking north over the Banana River from Health First's Cape Canaveral Hospital, and that's Port Canaveral in the foreground.
Details: ISO400, f14 at 255-seconds at 17mm with a Canon 5D4/EF17-40mm.
Welcome home, #SpaceX booster B1060.4! REcently used for the TurkSat5A launch, the Falcon9 first stage booster returned to Port Canaveral Monday evening.
The historic SpaceX Inspiration4 mission with the first ever all-civilian crew, consisting of Commander Jared Isaacman, pilot Sian Proctor, medical officer Hayley Arceneaux and mission specialist Chris Sembroski, launced this evening at 8:02 p.m. EDT from LC-39A on the Kennedy Space Center.
In September 2014, Venture Capitalist Steve Jurvetson invited Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, for a day to watch the XPRS high power rocket launches in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. The previous day, Elon and Steve went to see the grounds of the yet to be built Tesla Gigafactory east of Reno. It was an honor meeting Elon Musk, who brings so many positive changes to our world! He has been named Time Magazine's 2021 Person of the Year, well deserved!
Steve demonstrates our cork screw rocket to Elon Musk. My son Alexis (on the right) and I built it out of wine corks. This rocket flies on a G motor, the biggest motor in the mid-power class. We mounted the fins a bit slanted, so that the rocket cork-screws on the way up, which is always a crowd pleaser.
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Launch of the #SpaceX #CRS20 #Falcon9 rocket, and the 50th landing of a rocket booster, seen from the KSC Press Site in a 500-second exposure.
Wow. Just, wow.
#SpaceX shrugged off the weather to send a #Falcon9 rocket to space, this one carrying the #Eutelsat 10B payload.
This was the view of the 9:57pm (ET) Tuesday launch seen from Cocoa Beach and the Banana River.
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SpaceX launched the Starlink 4-12 mission with 53 more broadband internet satellites at 12:42 a.m. from SLC-40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites at 6:01 EDT. Composite image with one showing the stars and the Milky Way, which is slightly visible, and the other showing the launch.
Launch. Land. Repeat.
Another beautiful SpaceX Falcon9 launch carrying 60 Starlink satellites to orbit Wednesday morning at 4:28am.
(📷: me / @WeReportSpace)
At 8:02pm (ET) Wednesday night, #SpaceX launched the Inspiration4 mission and a crew of all-civilian astronauts to space.
It. Was. Amazing.
Godspeed, #Inspiration4!
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The 60th #SpaceX Falcon launch of the year, this one carrying upgraded #Starlink satellites to orbit, seen over the Indian River Lagoon (and my Starlink dish).
Gegründet wurde die Firma im Juli 2003 von Martin Eberhard und Marc Tarpenning, die 2008 ausschieden. Im Frühjahr 2004 stiegen Risikokapital-Investoren ein, Elon Musk wurde Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender und avancierte bald zur prägenden Figur von Tesla. Ende 2020 beschäftigte das Unternehmen rund 70.000 Mitarbeiter. Die Marktkapitalisierung lag Anfang Februar 2021 bei rund 683 Mrd. Euro. Der Firmensitz ist Palo Alto im Silicon Valley.
The company was founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who left in 2008. In the spring of 2004 venture capital investors got on board, Elon Musk became chairman of the supervisory board and soon became the defining figure of Tesla. At the end of 2020, the company had around 70,000 employees. Market capitalization was around EUR 683 billion at the beginning of February 2021. The company is based in Palo Alto in Silicon Valley.
Planet Mars - Astro Cruise
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A bold astronaut sets forth on a mission,
To explore the vast and unknown,
His faraway ship of hope and ambition,
As he journeys towards the red planet alone.
The endless expanse of space surrounds him,
A canvas of stars and light,
But his gaze is fixed on the horizon ahead,
On the promise of Mars shining bright.
For he knows the journey will be long,
And filled with perils and challenges galore,
But he has the courage to carry on,
And the determination to explore.
With every passing day, his spirit soars,
As he draws ever closer to his goal,
To step foot on the Martian shores,
And to leave his mark on the cosmos whole.
For he is an explorer at heart,
A seeker of knowledge and truth,
And his journey to Mars is just the start,
Of a cosmic adventure, full of youth.
Tribute to Elon Musk
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