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February 10, 2025 - SpaceX Launch at 6:09 PM from Vandenberg Space Force Base, as seen and photographed from my Home in Long Beach, CA.
Name: RFA Wave Ruler
Operator: Royal Fleet Auxiliary
Ordered: 12 March 1997
Builder: Kvaerner Govan
BAE Systems Marine
Launched: 9 February 2001
Commissioned: 27 April 2003
Identification: Pennant number A390
Status: in active service, as of 2016
Wave Ruler is a double-hulled tanker, designed to support the Royal Navy in global operations, which include amphibious warfare and anti-submarine operations.
Fast Fleet tankers
Wave Class
The Fast Fleet Tankers are designed to support the Royal Navy in global operations, which include amphibious warfare, anti submarine operations and protections of vital Sea areas and shipping. They have a cargo capacity of 16,900 tonnes of fuel and 915 tonnes of dry stores. They have the ability to deliver fuel through a RAS (Replenishment at sea) rig, either port or starboard or astern to other vessels.
Wave Class are double hulled tankers, which meet the current International Maritime Organisation legislation for protecting the environment.
On the Clyde for Joint Warrior 2016-1
Joint Warrior is a UK tri-Service multinational exercise that involves numerous warships, aircraft, marines and troops.
The Apollo 14 Saturn V, carrying Astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lifted off at 4:03 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on January 31, 1971, from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A, to begin the fourth manned lunar landing mission.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 71PC-0152
Date: January 31, 1971
Derwent Water Launch, heading back to Keswick, passing Rampsholme Island.
Derwentwater (or Derwent Water) is one of the principal bodies of water in the Lake District National Park in north west England. It lies wholly within the Borough of Allerdale, in the county of Cumbria.
The lake occupies part of Borrowdale and lies immediately south of the town of Keswick. It is both fed and drained by the River Derwent. It measures approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) long by 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and is some 72 feet (22 m) deep. There are several islands within the lake, one of which is inhabited. Derwent Island House, an 18th century residence, is a tenanted National Trust property open to the public on five days each year.
Derwentwater is a place of considerable scenic value. It is surrounded by hills (known locally as fells), and many of the slopes facing Derwentwater are extensively wooded. A regular passenger launch operates on the lake, taking passengers between various landing stages. There are seven lakeside marinas, the most popular stops being: Keswick, Portinscale and the Lodore Falls, from which boats may be hired. Recreational walking is a major tourist activity in the area and an extensive network of footpaths exists within the hills and woods surrounding the lake.
The Keswick—Borrowdale road runs along the eastern shore of the lake and carries a regular bus service. There is a lesser, or unclassified, road along the western shore connecting the villages of Grange and Portinscale.
Derwentwater gave its name to the Earldom of Derwentwater.
The lake is believed to be the last remaining native habit of the vendace (Coregonus vandesius) fish from the 4 originally known sites: Bassenthwaite Lake and Derwent Water in the Lake District and the Castle Loch & Mill Loch in Lochmaben.
Took this shot as if I were about to launch off in my boat. In a few weeks this will be a very busy boat launch as the salmon start to arrive
Most of the vapor trail is high enough it's still lit up by the sun - including the lowest part, which is clearly reddened!
The bright spot in the middle of the frame, below the trail, is Venus. The one in the thicker part is the previous stage after separation.
Probably launched from Vandenberg, judging by the trajectory, and probably SpaceX, based on the fact that they seem to do a lot more launches than anyone else these days.
'MANLY'
I have never seen, nor appreciated, the colours of Manly Cove, especially to the east of Manly Wharf where the depth is quite shallow, and the sea grasses are aplenty... I suppose these become apparent from the air - DJI AIR3
MV 'Freshwater' was the star of the morning on both approach, docked and then departing Manly Wharf. Freshwater is the lead ship of the four Freshwater-class ferries. It is named after Freshwater Beach on Sydney's Northern Beaches. It was launched on 27 March 1982 by Olive Cox and commissioned by her husband, Minister for Transport Peter Cox, on 18 December 1982.
The three-month old ferry ran aground at Manly Cove in March 1983 after overshooting the wharf following a computer failure. On 30 March 1985, Freshwater was hijacked by a man who threatened to shoot passengers unless the captain piloted the ferry beyond Sydney Heads into the ocean. The hijacker was subdued after a police officer boarded the vessel and fired three warning shots. It turned out that the man, a New Zealander, had not been carrying a gun, but an empty vodka bottle (the second of two that he had consumed before boarding the vessel) had been concealed under his jacket. After a short jail sentence, the man returned to New Zealand in January 1986 by stowing away on the Oriana, for which he was also fined.
While there were plans to retire the ship by 2021, a decision was eventually made to keep Freshwater and Collaroy operating, with Queenscliff and Narrabeen to be retired.
However, following the 2023 New South Wales state election, the current plan is to maintain Freshwater, Collaroy and Narrabeen in full-time service. Freshwater is expected to be in service until at least 2030.
The Space Launch Systems rocket (SLS), with Orion atop it, left the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at around 23:00 CET (22:00 GMT) on 17 March to begin its 6.5 km trip to Launchpad LC39B.
The first Artemis mission will send Orion to the Moon and back, farther than any human-rated spacecraft has travelled before. ESA’s European Service Module is the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion and provides everything needed to keep astronauts alive, including water, oxygen, power and temperature control.
While the rocket will propel Orion to supersonic speeds, the rocket itself is moved slowly but securely to the launchpad. Traveling at a maximum speed of just 1.3 km/h, the 6.5-km voyage took nearly 12 hours to complete on a specially designed crawler vehicle.
Launching Orion and the European Service Module into Earth orbit and onto the Moon requires a huge amount of energy and the size of the mega-Moon rocket SLS is hard to convey in photos.
At 100 m tall, it is roughly the height of the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) in London, UK, or 16 giraffes stacked on top of each other. If you laid the rocket on the ground, it would take over a minute to walk from the engines to the tip of the launch abort system.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
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Somehow I caught a Tufted titmouse just after it launched itself off of a bird feeder. A great combination of sharp detail on the body with blurred action on the wings.
On a misty, Sunday morning my grandson (22yrs) and I took a bike ride up to Rat Lake from Mill Bay Road at Bamberton, BC (on Vancouver Island).
It was a blast! After an exhilarating bike ride, we put the drone up and got some misty video of the lake from 100ft.
The trail is maintained by the Cowichan Valley Regional District while the land is owned by a logging company. After landing the drone, we rode our bikes up to the lake. The trails are very rough.
German Luftwaffe F-4F 38+06 launches for another 'fight' at Red Flag
Nellis AFB, Nevada October 1996
An old 35mm transparency scanned with a Plustek 7600i Ai film and neg scanner, photo-shop and then Neat Image
Launch Time/Window PST/PDT: 19:21
Vehicle: Falcon 9
Payload: Argentina's SAOCOM-1A Satellite
Pad/Silo: SLC-4E
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and Boeing's Starliner sit on Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral at sunset for the OFT-2 mission for NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the AEHF-6 mission for the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center rolls from the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
U.S. Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket carrying the Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space office’s ORS-1 satellite Launched from WALLOPS ISLAND, VA. Shot from Ocean City NJ.
140323-N-CP762-003 WATERS NEAR GUAM (March 23, 2014) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) launches a Vertically Launched Anti-Submarine Rocket during a live-fire exercise. Mustin is participating in Multi-Sail 2014, an annual exercise in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Fidel C. Hart/Released)
So this is the finished product. The Heavy support launcher Model 15 'Brutus' Automatic grenade launcher.(Well, if that isn't a mouthful...) This is the version that is mounted onto Jeeps and whatnot. Expect a carried version soon.
It functions nearly the same way as most Russian grenade launchers, with the gas from the blanks propelling the caseless grenade.
Partial credit to Vaapeli for the name.
Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, photo taken by Thilo Kranz' remote camera, straight at the pad.
Image Credit: DLR/Thilo Kranz, CC-BY-NC-ND