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Carolina Soaring uses a winch to launch their Grob 103 in October 2013.
This photo was used for the cover of the January 2014 edition of Soaring magazine!
Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and some of their satellites. A prototype Voyager spacecraft is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as it successfully passed vibration tests which simulated the expected launch environment. The large parabolic antenna at the top is 3.7 meters in diameter and was used at both S-band and X-band radio frequencies for communicating with Earth over the great distances from the outer planets. The spacecraft received electrical power from three nuclear power sources (lower left). The shiny cylinder on the left side under the antenna contained a folded boom, which extended after launch to hold a magnetometer instrument thirteen meters away from the body of the spacecraft. The truss-like structure on the right side is the stowed instrument boom which supported three science instruments and a scan platform. The scan platform allowed the accurate pointing of two cameras and three other science instruments at Jupiter, Saturn, the rings of Saturn, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's moons, Uranus, moons of Uranus, and Neptune.
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On February 17 at 5:45pm JST this H-IIA rocket blasted skyward from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center located off the southern coast of Japan, planet Earth. Onboard was the ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite, now in orbit. Designed to explore the extreme cosmos from black holes to massive galaxy clusters, the satellite observatory is equipped with four cutting-edge X-ray telescopes and instruments sensitive to photon energies from 300 to 600,000 electron volts. By comparison, visible light photon energies are 2 to 3 electron volts. Following a tradition of renaming satellites after their successful launch, ASTRO-H has been newly dubbed "Hitomi", inspired by an ancient legend of dragons. Hitomi means "the pupil of the eye". via NASA ift.tt/1Qo1pqI
December 4, 2010, the Lockheed Martin-led industry team launched the nation’s third Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Fort Worth, at the Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin.
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12 April 2024
Shot from Manatee County, FL
This was my first real attempt at catching a launch. I had watched one from this location without a camera or phone before, and that one went north. Since then, they have all gone south. So this one was a real experiment for me. I wasn’t sure where to focus, so I focused on infinity figuring that would get the rocket in focus. That was stupid because I focused on the moving object for a long exposure and then everything else was a little soft. Lesson learned there.
I also learned that a 30 second exposure was too short. For more recent shots I’m in bulb mode, and I add a little ND filter to compensate.
Overall though, I was really happy with this one! I considered it a good first attempt
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Jointly developed by NASA and Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), with contributions from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and United Kingdom Space Agency, SWOT is the first satellite mission that will observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface, measuring the height of water in the planet’s lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and the ocean. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Her she goes...
Traditional ship launching on wooden ramp greased with fat of sheep... It was really spectacular, the sound of hammers on the kedges to get her going, building op the tension of the thousands who had come to Marstal to see this wonderful rebuilt ship touching the water again.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft onboard is seen as it launches on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) mission is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring the Earth's landscapes from space. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Clyde Marine's Beaver Bay flying a flag warning of the launching of Calmac's newest ferry - MV Glen Sannox.
Double-crested Cormorant taking off from a salt marsh near Mountain View, Ca this morning.
This is probably my favorite bird in the SF Bay Area; it is a powerful swimmer, it's reflective eyes assist with hunting prey down along the bottom, and the distance it travels underwater and the time it stays down is quite impressive. This morning I caught the Pelicans waiting for the Cormorants to stir things up, and then feed up on the surface.
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These little chaps cant wait to get the breeding thing going. Why wait for Spring anyway? They are nearly in full breeding plumage and we are only half way through winter.
This nest is outside an upstairs window and I had to take the burglar bars off it one night and set up my hide when he wasnt around to notice.
The eagles tolerated pestering from five crows for a few minutes but finally had it and left.
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Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Alexandria, VA
Kip Daugirdas' MESOS launches from the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave, CA. MESOS is the only reusable, amateur-built, space-capable rocket.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
The launch of U.S. Air Force cruise missile Navaho in 1957. Even though it never reached operational status before cancellation in 1957, Navaho research development contributed to the aeronautical research program. The heavy Navaho vehicle weighed 136,000 kilograms, capable of Mach-3 speeds, and used an improved V-2 engine, was boosted into the air by three liquid-propellant rocket engines of 135,000 pounds of thrust each. Variants of these engines were developed for Army's Redstone and Jupiter rockets.
26 June 1957
This photograph is part of the Shipbuilding on the River Tyne, 1960 - 1977 collection which was kindly donated to Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
Taken by Ronald Sanderson, this photograph captures a view of the river probably taken from Hebburn, of The Ottawa launched into the river and being turned with the aid of the tugs in front of spectators. This photograph was taken in 1964. It is a 35mm slide.
(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email adam.bell@twmuseums.org.uk
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.
NASA's InSight lander just hitched a ride to Mars on an Atlas V rocket! ETA: November 26, 2018. This was the first interplanetary mission to leave from California and it was a joy to watch it go! This is a long-exposure shot of the rocket streaking through the sky seen from about 85 miles away from the launch site at Vandeberg AFB. #NASA #InSight #Mars #ULA #AtlasV
201405290008hq (29 May 2014) --- The Soyuz TMA-13M rocket is launched with Expedition 40 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA on May 29, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Suraev, Gerst and Wiseman will spend the next five and a half months aboard the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
On Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2:49am (ET), SpaceX successfully launched the Crew Dragon capsule on a demo flight to the International Space Station. This is a 218-sec exposure captured from the roof of the Florida Today building. (Pic: me / We Report Space)
More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
#nasa #NASAMarshall #MSFC #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #education #space #studentlaunch
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
From summer 2013 at the cabin. A 30 second exposure from the marina by our cabin. It's starting to be spring here, time to start thinking about summer at the cabin.
Posted as day 5 of a combined 10 day B&W challenge from Cindy's Here and kfpsardou. One thing I like about this miniproject is that I'm going through some older photos doing a little past processing. I had taken a series of long exposures at the marina that I never did process. A nice little rediscovery in my archives. I'm trying to post something a little different every day, and this day is a long exposure landscape.
Today saw the long-awaited launch of the new MMCs for route 23, replacing a batch of 58-plated E300s. 26148 (SN67 WVS) and 26146 (SN67 WVP) took part in a small ceremony at the South Parade terminus this morning.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC (B43F)
Stagecoach South (PM)
South Parade, Southsea
09 October 2017
"Two NASA research rockets launched from Andøya Space on November 10, 2024, to study energy transfer between the lower and upper atmosphere. – The main scientific objective for VortEx 2 is to study how winds and energy from the lower parts of the atmosphere affect the upper parts, says Thomas Gansmoe, Director Sounding Rockets & Engineering Services at Andøya Space Sub-Orbital. -– The focus of the experiment is to figure out how gravity waves interact with each other, and how these interactions form vortices.
The two research rockets in the mission launched two minutes apart, and the first lift-off occurred Nov 10, at 21:36:00 UTC, reaching a apogee of 358 kilometers, while the second launch vehicle reached 144 kilometers." Source: andoyaspace.no/news-articles/nasa-vortex-2-launches-a-suc...
The impressive atrium in the Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York.
To view the "Looking down" version, please use link below :
Launch of IWMF mobile security app, Reporta. Event hosted by International Women's Media Foundation at the Newseum on Friday, October 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tony Powell)
More than 800 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched nearly 50 high-powered, amateur rockets April 15, near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, during the Agency's annual rocket competition.
For the past nine months prior, teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a rocket and scientific payload to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, while making a successful landing and executing a scientific or engineering payload mission.
Student Launch is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges - a series of activities providing students access to the Artemis program. Through Artemis, NASA will return humans to the Moon for long-term exploration, including landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, missions that will help pave the way for future missions to Mars.
The 2023 launch event and award ceremony are available to view on NASA's Marshall YouTube and Student Launch Facebook pages.
For more information, visit: NASA Student Launch.
#nasa #NASAMarshall #MSFC #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #education #space #studentlaunch
IMAGE CREDIT: NASA
Exciting new technology! Setting up a mini satellite launcher in the Japanese air lock.
Abgefahrene Technologie! Habe heute einen Mini-Satellitenstarter in der Japanischen Luftschleuse installiert.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Sneaking around the Corner to take a look at the Secret Launch Site ~ Downtown, Kansas City, Missouri USA
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery in Launching, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The cemetery was established in 1820, and abandoned in 1860. Many of the headstones are just simple plain rocks.
See the pilot shots where they step/jump off and on the ship in order to take command through the ship channels, thought you'd like to see how the loser to the dock at Roatan disembarks passengers for touring the island. Notice, they're launching their lifeboats.
Sort of cool to see them actually do this when it's not an emergency. Hope to never see it in an emergency.
There are three "Benchmarks," commissioned in 2005 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the City of Peterborough, on the banks of Little Lake. This Benchmark, titled "Launching Pad," is designed by Michael Fortune of Lakefield. Imagine yourself sitting in a giant slingshot, ready to be launched out over the blue waters of Little Lake!
Hope everyone is having a good summer (or winter - whatever the case might be). My apologies for not commenting on your photos - I'll have little time the next few days so I'll have to catch up on commenting on your images later.
I think this might be a spittlebug or froghopper. However they are supposed to lay eggs on host plants the larva will eat. This one seemed to be launching eggs one at a time out the rear and over the side of the leaf. I tried to catch a few in my hand to look at them but they were too small to see, except while in motion.
Id help appreciated.
Found in a field down the street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.