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Die glorreichen Zeiten hat dieses wunderbare Fahrzeug leider hinter sich. MPower aus München, im Alpina Look. Ihr dürft mir gerne auf die Sprünge helfen, denn ich bin mir mit dem Baujahr unsicher. Für mich handelt es sich um eine 1980ger Ausgabe...
At 5:48pm (ET) Friday December 16, 2022, SpaceX launched the O3b mPOWER mission for SES Satellites.
This was the view from Cocoa Beach, Florida, 14 miles south of the pad (SLC-40).
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This photo is part of the SPF Archive and was either taken by me or acquired in a trade...
Friday was going to be a particularly historic day for launches, with #SpaceX set to launch two rockets from Cape Canaveral approximately 30 minutes apart, but that changed. Even with the Starlink 4-37 launch slipping a day, SpaceX still launched three rockets in less than 34 hours (one was from their launch site in California), which is pretty remarkable.
A single composited frame showing both Cape launches would be cool, but the 24 hours between them required an unusual (for me, at least) level of precision in terms of camera placement. Then the first launch, SES O3b mPOWER, went at the end of the window, so it was enough after sunset that it was more of a night photo. And then there was the cloud deck for both launches, low enough that both rockets were only visible for 40 seconds or so before the clouds swallowed them.
In other words, this image was nothing like what I had in mind, but, here is the result: A four-frame composite, 2x30-sec frames on the right capturing the SES O3b mPOWER launch of Friday night, and 2x30-sec frames on the left capturing the Starlink 4-37 launch of Saturday night, from the same location, and the same camera. I merged each launch into a single frame, stuck a gradient filter on them to darken the side opposite the streak, and then combined them in Photoshop, and voila, two launches, night and day, separated by ~23 hours, in a single frame.