View allAll Photos Tagged launch
A quick take off and then glide as it looks on towards a new target. This time a new perch to continue hunting.
There are a number of balloons that fly as a pair at the fiesta. They inflate and launch together - but where the wind takes them from there is anyone's guess.
Thank you for your comments and faves – they are greatly appreciated!
Select photos from my Flickr stream are available for purchase as prints or personal download at [www.winterfirephotographicarts.com].
I still love swinging on the playground swings and it always brings me back...remembering the many summer days in my childhood trying to make that darn swing go 360 degrees around. Get those legs kicking and every pass going higher and higher until it seems certain to work. Then you reach a certain point and the momentum is not enough the chain starts to bend and you fall back toward Earth, sometimes with a spine jarring jolt. I wonder now if it is even possible. After doing some quick research I found that it is very possible to do a 360 on the swings, just not with the tools at hand. Playground swings are just not designed to go 360 for obvious reasons. The chains would have to be replaced with rods and some sort of additional power to launch oneself around the top bar would greatly improve the odds of success.
52 Weeks - week 33 - a different angle
ODC - faux olympics, my event - playground swing 360
We're here - is visiting August
He was sitting in a distant tree about 150M away. This is a 100% crop using the 2x TC 600mm and all 50 megapixels from the the canon 5dsr This combo comes out at 1900mm approximately.
Two of three.
A recent trip out to central Florida was quite amazing. I caught this juvenile eagle launching from its perch in a nearby dead tree. Love the eagles out in this area. 😀
#eagle #juvenileeagle #Eagles #centralflorida #nationalbird
The “Catapult” is an Esthian Heavy Long-range multiple rocket launcher. The system is (like the previous “Ballista” system) designed to destroy personnel, armored, and soft-skinned targets in concentration areas, artillery batteries and command posts. Each rocket weights 1250kg and has a maximum range of 230km (although a new version with 400km is currently being designed).
All rockets are fitted with GPS/INS guidance system, which uses low lowering rate to extend the range. Multiple missiles can be aimed at different targets.
Each vehicle is also equipped with a short range “Fasta” MANPAD for defense against low flying helicopters and UCAVs.
The “Catapult” and the “Ballista” now form the Rocket Artillery battalions of the Esthian Imperial Army. The system is based on the Russian SM-30 Smerch.
Don´t forget to visit my Flickr page and subscribe!
Eínon
More launch pics: SpaceX photographer Ashish Sharma's images are always great, from spacesuit portraits to rocket launches!
Ces flammes sont la raison pour laquelle un décollage de fusée, ça se regarde plutôt DE LOIN… ou alors, il vaut mieux être à l’autre bout de l’engin Superbe photo (comme d’habitude) d’Ashish Sharma.
Credits: SpaceX
Fisk have long been one of the obvious and primary resources of the Fjordlands in Norway. This is shot in Senja, on a stormy evening.
Sunrise before the launch of Orbital ATK's Antares Rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility.
12Nov2017
Thank you for viewing and make sure to look at my other images.
Prints available at: photosbymch.com
© 2017 M. C. Hood / PhotosbyMCH Photography - All rights reserved.
Sorry, can’t chat—gotta wing it! This Gray Catbird had better things to do than sit around and get his picture taken.
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 15th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew.
Photo Credit: NASA's Wallops Flight Facility/Patrick Black
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
Follow us on Twitter
Like us on Facebook
Find us on Instagram
Nearly 40 years later, a "Rocket" returns to it's one-time launching pad. This is Chicago's LaSalle Street Station, the eastern terminus for the Rock Island Railroad, where the famous "Rocket" streamliners began their journeys west. But much has changed in this time. The Rock Island went out of business in the 1980s, the original LaSalle Street headhouse was torn down about the same time, and the "Rockets" are all but a distant memory.
Enter 2017: In partnership with Metra, the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society put together four "Joliet Rocket" excursions an homage to the once "Mighty Fine Line." Featuring vintage equipment and their own famous Nickel Plate 4-8-4 #765 for power, passengers were treated to a recreation of a 1940's era train ride from Joliet to Chicago and back over the former Rock Island mainline. Passengers also got to experience a fine lunch or dinner at the station, as well as a photo runby (originally scheduled to take place at Tinley Park) of the giant steam beast. This would be the first time since the 1960s that a steam locomotive would again grace the platforms of LaSalle Street Station and sound of a steam whistle would echo off the Canyons of Chicago. This trip was so popular that it would return for a second year in 2018.
Seen here is the second run of the Joliet Rocket on Saturday, June 17th. Heat and humidity forced many passengers to return back to the air conditioning in the train after finishing their dinner & drinks. But those of us who rode in the Iowa Pacific full-dome car wanted to linger as long as we could outside, because the AC conked out on the car during the morning run, effectively turning it into a giant sauna.
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard lifted off at 07:47 CEST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 16 November 2022.
The most powerful rocket ever built sent NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) to a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion.
Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power, the European Service Module will take the Orion capsule to its destination and back.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Oct 6, 05 interestingness top 10 on Oct 7 then #1 on October 8th
44.5/50 in score me pool
87/100 in 100 points pool!
29/35 in MiRea's Rhealm---Upper Chamber
"Ready to Launch" by Patti Deters. This fishing kayak is ready to head off for a day of peaceful fishing in northern Minnesota surrounded by a forest of trees with puffy clouds overhead. The public launch is located on the shores of Lake One, the area is remote with a wilderness feel. You can see two fishing poles on the little boat, just waiting for the owner to come back and push off to adventure. If you like outdoor nature photography, please see more landscapes, waterscapes, and other scenic vistas at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/ready-to-launch-patti-de....
Launch - Orbital ATK's resupply mission to the International Space Station from the Mid Atlantic Regional Space Port at Wallops Island, VA.
www.facebook.com/peaksviewphotography/
fineartamerica.com/artists/steve+hammer
launch5a
This is a WIP of the light variant of the 'Brutus' launcher. This variant has a smaller 7-round drum. and a magwell adapter with 20-round magazine.
THINGS YET TO DO:
AIM Scope
small details
Bipod
ESA’s new small telecom platform was launched on 28 January 2017. The Hispasat 36W-1 satellite, based on the SmallGEO platform, lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
SmallGEO is Europe’s response to the market demand for more flexible, modular telecommunications platforms. It marks the first time the German satellite manufacturing company OHB System AG have been the prime contractor for a telecommunications satellite mission. Its Hispasat payload marks the first ESA partnership with a Spanish operator.
Read more: SmallGEO's first flight reaches orbit
Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja, 2017