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Starlink 21 mission. SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 which is carrying 60 Starlink satellites. This is part of an effort by SpaceX to create a space based system of satellites to deliver worldwide access to the internet. The first stage returned safely and landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You. This was the 9th flight of that particular first stage booster. So far, all Falcon 9 launches this year have used a previously used first stage booster. I took this photo from the beach at Vero Beach, Florida which is about 65 miles (105 km) south of Cape Canaveral.
#SpaceX sent another batch of #Starlink satellites to orbit Saturday night at 7:32pm (EDT).
It was just after sunset & save for some clouds, the #Falcon9 put on quite a show, especially as the 2nd stage caught the sunlight.
(163-sec exposure from Titusville)
#DeltaIVHeavy #ParkerSolarProbe on 35mm film: An 11 min (+/-) exposure from the NASA Causeway, captured on @FujifilmUS Velvia50 w/ a @CanonUSA A1 SLR.
Film requires patience, but the results, well, you can decide.
Details: ISO50, approximately 11 minute exposure time, f16 on Fuji Velvia50 with a Canon A1 and a 24mm lens.
(Pic: me/@WeReportSpace;processing: @the_darkroom)
Postscript: the roll had images from 3 other launches and a return to port; I'll probably post them over the next few days.
The 230 foot rocket was well over 20 miles down range when I took this from our condo balcony. It was very high and going very fast.
The final flight of the #DeltaIV Medium (aka "single-stick") rocket, 25-seconds off the pad.
I was 12 miles south of the pad for this launch, and there were a couple of clouds between Cocoa Beach and the pad. This was the second cloud the rocket flew behind as it lept toward orbit.
It was a beautiful launch of a rocket that has a 100% mission success rate.
Well done, @ulalaunch
(Pic: me / @wereportspace )
ESA’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
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).
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.
The second stage, carrying the Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft to the ISS, blasts away from the first stage as it starts its boost back burn to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket created this distinct "jellyfish" effect in the sky thanks to the way that the already set sun hits the gases exhausted by the craft and made it easily visible all the way from Freeport, in the Bahamas, despite being over 200-300 miles away at this point.
SpaceX launched the Amazonas Nexus satellite for Hispasat abord a Flacon 9 rocket at 8:32 PM EST from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The first stage booster landed safely on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions which was in the Atlantic, 385 miles east of the launch site. This photo was taken on the beach in Vero Beach, Florida which is about 70 miles south of the launch site.
I took a couple of cameras up to Sebastian Inlet State Park to the beach to photograph the SpaceX launch this evening. The SpaceX Falcon 9 delivered 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.
Blue Origin = in orbit.
This is the early Thursday morning launch of the New Glenn NG-1 mission seen from Cocoa Beach.
Wow. Just, wow!
Congratulations to the entire Blue Origin team!
ESA’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.
Credits: ESA - M. Pedoussaut
ESA’s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 at 15:13 CEST/13:13 UTC/10:13 local time from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega. For flight VV21, Vega-C’s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
On 12-18-21 at 10:58 pm SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Türksat 5B communications satellite to a geostationary orbit. This satellite will provide broadband communication to Turkey, the Middle East, and parts of Africa.
"Tremor the dinosaur watching the SpaceX Starlink launch, dreaming of zero-gravity."
or
"Lauren (my 5-y/o daughter) is harassing me for bringing HER dino toy to the launch, and I'm too embarrassed to tell her I got 2 of them." (Alternate caption)
That's a ghostly me frame left, working my other cameras. This particular exposure is a 211-second frame. All of my cameras were set to capture the expected downrange plume; although I knew the sky was cloudy, I didn't quite realize just how dense the clouds were until the rocket was in flight. Bottom line: the plume brightly lit by the rising Sun was obscured.
As for the dinosaur, for non-space nerds, this is the same sort of sequined apatosaurus that Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley brought along to use as a zero-gravity indicator for the Demo-2 mission. My daughter was watching the live webcast of the launch, and when the dino floated in front of the camera she freaked out. I managed to score two of the now apparently quite sold out dinosaurs, and she got one, and I kept the other.
Read more about the dinosaur stowaway here in this article: www.theverge.com/2020/5/30/21272222/spacex-launch-toy-stu...
Launch of Northrop Grumman's Antares Rocket from NASA's Wallops Island facility taken from Virginia's Eastern Shore. This launch will use the Cygnus cargo freighter to resupply the International Space Station.
01Aug2023
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Wow, wow, wow.
This is the now thrice flown (& thrice landed) #JCSAT18 #Kacific1 #Falcon9 rocket, launched Mon at 7:10pm (ET) seen from Melbourne, FL and the Indian River Lagoon.
Congrats to
@elonmusk
& the #SpaceX team!
(Pic: 185-second exposure by me /
@WeReportSpace)
Details: 480-second exposure at f18 captured on Kodak Ektachrome 100 35mm transparency using a Canon Elan7 body and a Rokinon 12mm fish-eye lens.
This is a United Launch Alliance AtlasV rocket carrying the "Solar Orbiter" Sun observing satellite, as seen in a (very) long-exposure from Cocoa Beach, Florida. The launch was on February 10, 2020 and I sat on the roll for a while before sending it to The Darkroom for processing (and scanning). Dominating the night sky is the Moon, and the silhouettes to the right of the frame are Erik Kuna and me, working our respective DSLRs.
My DSLR version of the scene is here: flic.kr/p/2irsrQ7
That wasn't thunder, Space Coast: Liftoff!
At 3:14am (ET) Sunday, the #CRS23 #Falcon9 sent a Cargo Dragon capsule full of goodies to the Space Station.
It was a beautiful launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, & the 90th successful 1st stage landing for #SpaceX.
This is the view from the NASA Press Site shown in a 202-second exposure.
Pics: me / Nat Geo
I took this photo with one of my cameras set up at the beach at Sebastian Inlet State Park. This long exposure was the second shot with this camera and was taken immediately after the initial launch. It shows an example of what some refer to as the “twilight phenomena”. This can occur when a launch takes place shortly before sunrise, as in this case, or shortly after sunset in the case of launches from the west coast. Here a SpaceX Falcon 9 is delivering 58 Starlink satellites, and three Rideshare satellites into orbit as well as returning the first stage for landing. The launch took place at 5:21 AM which was less than an hour before sunrise. The sky is still dark but sunlight is reaching the 60 to 90 miles (ca. 145 km) altitude where the satellites and first stage are being released. Chemicals released as the rocket and satellites burn fuel freeze at this high altitude and then the sunlight is refracted at different wavelengths creating beautiful and colorful displays.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 lifting its payload of Starlink satellites into orbit. I shot this photo from Vero Beach, Florida.
Well done, #SpaceX. The #CRS14 #Falcon9 launch was successful, and incredible to watch, especially from the roof of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.
(Shots by me aka Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Orbital OA-5 Antares Rocket Launch from NASA Wallops Island on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, viewed from Cape May, NJ. Stitched panorama.
Liftoff!!
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the Viasat-3 Americas payload took flight Sunday at 8:26pm (ET).
Pictures don't do the scene justice -- this was a seriously pretty launch.
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On Saturday we went launching rockets at the Snow Ranch in the California Central Valley. It is a huge ranch with 3000 acres / 1200 hectares. Snow Ranch, operated by the Orvis Cattle Company, has a long history.
200+ people participated in the rocket launch. I invited a friend of mine from Spain to cook paella for the rocket enthusiasts. It was a perfect day enjoying yummy paella and launching rockets with no wind! Here is the finished paella after 2 hours cooking. Enough to eat for 70 people. Thank you chef JJ of ArtOfPaella!
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC3389_hdr1bal1e
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UDPATE 2016-01-19:
RIP JJ Juan, you will be dearly missed. My thoughts are with Susana and family.
I had the privilege to get to know JJ and was immediately drawn to his personality. Always positive, always helpful. His passion was to help people make their dreams a reality, whatever they were.
Last January I invited him to cook paella at the LUNAR Snow Ranch rocket event. He immediately jumped on it - rocket meets paella, two seemingly incompatible cultures. He crossed boundaries, not just on a cultural level.
10 days after cooking paella at the rocket launch site, chef JJ was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, commonly known as "blood cancer". As a true leader, he took this challenge as an opportunity, and started his "Reflections from Paradise" blog and a "Walk with me" community to raise awareness and money for this type of cancer.
The world would be a much better place if more people would be as passionate and caring as you JJ. Hugs! We miss you!
US military helicopter doing security sweeps over Canaveral National Seashore prior to a SpaceX launch attempt.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 at 3:13 AM on March 11, 2021. This was the Starlink 20 mission which released 60 satellites as part of the SpaceX internet provider project. The first stage landed successfully on the barge Just Read the Instructions after its 6th flight.
The first Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 13 December at 21:30 CET.
From geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above the equator, this all-new weather satellite will provide state-of-the art observations of Earth’s atmosphere and realtime monitoring of lightning events, taking weather forecasting to the next level. The satellite carries two completely new instruments: Europe’s first Lightning Imager and a Flexible Combined Imager.
MTG-I1 is the first of six satellites that form the full MTG system, which will provide critical data for weather forecasting over the next 20 years. In full operations, the mission will comprise two MTG-I satellites and one MTG Sounding (MTG-S) satellites working in tandem.
Credits: ESA - M. Pedoussaut
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We spent 3+ days in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls 24, a crazy rocket launch event with huge rockets. Some people call this event the Super Bowl of rocketry. Over 300 people attended, there were teams from as far as England and Egypt. Many rockets were built in the garage from scratch, including the solid propellant for the motors.
Quite a number of rockets came down ballistic, either with some problems with the electronics, structural problems at high g-forces and supersonic speed, parachute deployment problems, or simply by operator error. You gotta have balls to be there - the probability to get hit by a rocket is tiny but not zero.
I captured this desert dart shortly after sunset. I cloud positioned itself just to get this smoking gun, aka rocket.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.
-- ƒ/5.6, 89 mm, 1/800 sec, ISO 100, Sony NEX-6, SEL-55210, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC7815_6_7_hdr3bal1h.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography
A ULA Atlas V rocket as it lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying a US Naval satellite. June 24, 2016.
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
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered 49 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) at 9:02 P.M. on 01-18-22. SpaceX has now placed 2000 of the small communications satellites in to orbit comprising their Starlink constellation which will deliver internet access to rural areas of the world. The first stage landed about 400 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, near the Bahamas, on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. I took this shot from a bridge over the Indian River Lagoon in Vero Beach, Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launching the Globalstar 2 satellite at 12:27 am, viewed from Vero Beach. No other payload was listed by SpaceX which would normally leave enough fuel for the first stage to return to the Cape to land. Instead, however, the first stage made a successful landing on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions which was about 500 miles out to sea. This has lead to conjecture that there may have been additional payloads. This was the ninth flight of this particular first stage, and the 126th successful landing of a first stage by SpaceX. Approximate cost of the mission was $52,000,000.
While you were sleeping: At 3:10 am (ET), SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
This ~8-min exposure shows launch (long streak), booster reentry (short streak, right) and the motion of the crescent Moon (crossing the launch streak); it was a lovely scene.
Thursday (8/25) sunset captured from Kennedy Space Centerâs LC-39B as NASAâs Space Launch System (âSLSâ) and the Orion spacecraft await the scheduled 8/29 launch of the #Artemis1 mission.
#WeAreGoing
The view from Vero Beach which is about 70 miles south of Cape Canaveral. Artemis I lifted, off after a short delay, at 1:47 AM. The space vehicle was topped by the Orion Spacecraft which will reach it's closest approach to the moon on November 21st, at which time it will be approximately 60 miles from the surface.
US military helicopter doing security sweeps over Canaveral National Seashore prior to a SpaceX launch attempt.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module, at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 12 November, 2022. The Artemis I mission will be the first test of SLS, Orion and the European Service Module.
The Orion spacecraft with European Service Module will fly farther from Earth than any human-rated vehicle has ever flown before.
The spacecraft will perform a flyby of the Moon, using lunar gravity to gain speed and propel itself 70 000 km beyond the Moon, almost half a million km from Earth – further than any human has ever travelled, where it will inject itself in a Distant Retrograde Orbit around the Moon.
On its return journey, Orion will do another flyby of the Moon before heading back to Earth.
The total trip will take around 20 days, ending with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean without the European Service Module – it separates and burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Crew-10 Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center to rescue astronauts stranded on ISS
Last night there was a rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB at 7:53pm. I had pre-planned this location and set up well ahead of time. Using my Sony a1 and Sony 16-35mm f/2.8 lens I took a sequence of 38 shots to capture the event. Each shot was 10 sec., f/4, 1600 ISO. I layered all the shots in Photoshop and changed the blend mode on each one to Lighten. Like magic the whole scene revealed itself!
SpaceX Falcon 9 - Hispasat 30W-6 Rocket launch March 5 12:33 am. The night launches are my favorite. They are beautiful to watch in the still of the night. This is a stack of 10 images
Vapor Cloud of SpaceX Falcon 9 as it dissipates. This shot was taken from the beach at Sebastian Inlet State Park.
It was a spectacular night for the #SpaceX #AmazonasNexus launch, sent to space atop a #Falcon9 rocket launched from CCSFS at 8:32pm (ET) Monday.
8 mins later, the 1st stage was recovered, the 170th booster recovery for SpaceX.
(Special guest: the almost full Moon.)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launching 54 Starlink Group 5-15 Satellites at 11:50 PM on July 15th, 2023. This was the last launch of the v1.5 Starlink Satellites to be added to the Starlink mega-constellation. The image was taken from Vero Beach which is 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of the launch site. This was the 16th flight of this particular first stage reusable booster which landed successfully on the barge A Shortfall of Gravitas. The barge was located to the north of the eastern Bahamas.