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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.
From up close: The #Orion test capsule leaping off the pad as part of the #OrionAA2 #AA2 test of the Launch Abort System.
(Pics: me / @WeReportSpace)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launching 60 Starlink satellites on February 15th, 2021. This image was taken near the beach in Vero Beach, which is about 60 miles south of Canaveral.
At 5:04pm (ET) Wednesday (6/29), SpaceX launched the SES-22 payload atop Falcon9 booster B1073.
Cloudy skies made for a moody backdrop as the rocket thundered off the pad.
Views from the pad were captured with sound-activated cameras.
(📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
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ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French 09:14 local time/14:14CEST on 14 April 2023 to begin its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will study in detail the gas giant planet’s three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
Juice – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Following launch, Juice will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth.
Flight VA260 is the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space.
Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
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This was the highlight of today's rocket launch event at Snow Ranch: A big rocket with L-motor took off with a big roar and sparkly black fumes, then went out of sight very quickly. This was its maiden flight - the launch and flight was perfect, but the parachute did not deploy on decent. The rocket came down ballistic and was completely destroyed! Launching big rockets is an expensive hobby, the propellant alone for this rocket is around $400, the rocket with electronics is north of $1000.
Launching big rockets requires a certification. There are three levels. I have level 1 certification, the first category. The person who launched this rocket has level 2 certification - the L-motor is the biggest engine you can launch with this certification. An L-motor burns in about 2 seconds and produces an average thrust of about 2000 Newtons (equiv 200 kg, 440 lbs).
I took many consecutive shots of this launch in sports mode. Unfortunately I left the camera in automatic mode - the aperture was too high, and with that the exposure to slow for this handheld 200mm (350mm equiv for full frame) tele shot. Lesson learned for next time: Use manual mode. This is the first shot, the only usable one. Well it is not totally sharp though, but I like the overall feel. Usually I use RAW, but this time I took the JPG version (the NEX-6 has good in-camera noise reduction), and processed it into a soft HDR photo.
HDR, 1 exposure, NEX-6, _DSC5806_hdr1sof3c
Moon on a stick, or another look at the #SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket transiting the 98.9% illuminated Moon as it carries the Intelsat G-33/G-34 payload to orbit, seen in a 30-sec exposure.
The #SpaceX #SES12 #Falcon9 launch, with 34 minutes of star trails before the launch.
(Photo: me / We Report Space)
ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French 09:14 local time/14:14CEST on 14 April 2023 to begin its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will study in detail the gas giant planet’s three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
Juice – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Following launch, Juice will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth.
Flight VA260 is the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space.
Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
This is the #Telstar18V launch by #SpaceX, seen from Satellite Beach, Florida and captured on Kodak Ektar 100 35mm film. I fielded three different cameras for the 12:45 am Monday, September 10, 2018 launch, and for this shot, I simply opened the shutter about 10 minutes before the launch, and I closed the shutter as I was packing up, so I'd estimate the exposure time to be approximately 25-minutes in length.
I started out at f11, but after a few test exposures on one of the DSLRs, I thought I'd need more light to bring out the foreground, so after 5 minutes or so, I covered the lens and turned the aperture ring to f9. (You can see the change in the star streaks -- they start thin, and at f9, they're thicker.) I remain a bit mystified as to why I didn't open the aperture AFTER the launch, as the rocket is blown out low on the horizon, but overall, I'm happy with the result.
And, I'm particularly happy with the new (to me) lab that processed this frame: Miller's Professional Imaging was *very* responsive. From the time the film was received, it took them less than 120 minutes to process and scan the roll. I would have had this yesterday (as in, the day after the launch) if I hadn't missed the cutoff for UPS Next Day service. (Big thanks to We Report Space colleague Jared Haworth for the referral to Miller's; they're great.)
Also, for your comparison, the same scene shot with a Canon 5D4 and an EF16-35mm lens is viewable here: flic.kr/p/29Qz9xo
Details: ISO100, f11-f9 with a 25 minute exposure time on Kodak Ektar 100 film, shot with a Canon A1 and a Canon 24mm lens.
Merged image of two long exposures of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch on July 27th, 2023. If you look closely you can see where the two boosters separated from the core vehicle as it continued on its flight path. You also see two streaks of light where the boosters fired their engines to slow their descent and a streak of light near the horizon as the engines fired again as they both landed safely back at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The image was taken from Vero Beach which is 63 miles (101 kilometers) south of the launch site. This was the third flight for both boosters.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched Friday night at 11:04 PM. If you look closely you can see the two first stage boosters as they separate and begin to return to the landing sight while the core continues on. Both boosters landed successfully at
Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaking over Cocoa Beach Sunday morning at 6:53am (ET), with special guest, the space "jellyfish," downrange, as the second stage catches light from the rising Sun.
This was a seriously pretty launch.
The Journey to Mars became more real this week. For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first exploration class rocket since the Saturn V. The CDR provided a final look at the design and development of the integrated launch vehicle before full-scale fabrication begins.
Also as part of the CDR, the program concluded the core stage of the rocket and Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter will remain orange, the natural color of the insulation that will cover those elements, instead of painted white.
Image Credit: NASA/MSFC
(Artist concept updated Oct. 20, 2015)
with a chance of Rockets
A Falcon9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Center 35 minutes after sunset streaks over the Pacific Ocean on June 23rd, 2024 as seen from Manhattan Beach, California. It is the eleventh flight of this first stage reusable booster.
The view from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral which is about 70 miles to the north. The rocket launched a set of 48 satellites for the OneWeb satellite internet constellation. The first stage booster landed safely back at Cape Canaveral. This image is composed of three separate long exposure images stacked together to form one image showing the launch and also the booster firing as it landed back at Cape Canaveral.
Friday night / Saturday morning at 12:54 am (ET), SpaceX launched the SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM Radio, seen here in a 233-second exposure from Satellite Beach, Florida.
It was not long after low tide, and I had this patch of beach entirely to myself. It was a dreamy view made dramatic by the roar of the rocket, just another night on the Space Coast.
SpaceX launched a falcon 9 rocket carrying a Cargo Dragon filled with supplies and headed to the International Space Station. This view is overlooking the Indian River Lagoon in Vero Beach, Florida. As you can tell from the boat masts, there was a pretty stiff breeze blowing.
At 3:48am Tuesday, 10-minutes after the weather-delayed Polaris Dawn mission was supposed to launch, SpaceX launched another hashtag#Falcon9 rocket, this one carrying Starlink satellites.
It really is quite remarkable that hashtag#SpaceX just had another rocket ready to go, a consolation prize for the large number of people visiting to see the Polaris Dawn launch. Sure, there weren't people on this rocket, but it was still a beautiful launch.
And, it was a memorable launch: This was the 23rd (and unintentionally final) mission for the well-traveled and storied first stage booster 1062. The booster was (somewhat explosively) not recovered. The satellites were successfully delivered to orbit, and while booster recovery is not the primary objective, it was the first launch in quite some time, 267, to be exact, where the booster was lost.
This was the view from Palm Shores, 25-ish miles south of SLC-40, from where the rocket was launched.
SpaceX launched a crew of four aboard a Falcon 9 rocket last night at 12:34 AM. It will take them a little over 24 hours to reach their destination at the international Space Station. This was the view from the beach in Vero Beach, FL.
Starlink Group 4-27. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink satellites which will be added to its Starlink mega constellation for providing space based internet service.
US military helicopter doing security sweeps over Canaveral National Seashore prior to a SpaceX launch attempt.
Definition: SEPTUPLE (noun)
1. a sum seven times as great as another: a sevenfold amount: the seventh multiple
2. the number of times #SpaceX has launched the B1049 #falcon9 booster
The Starlink launch tonight is the 100th Falcon 9 launch.
Congratulations, SpaceX, on these milestones!
(Pic: me / We Report Space)
SpaceX launching Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites into orbit. This is the first launch of the new v2-mini model of the Starlink satellite. They will join SpaceX's mega constellation of internet communication satellites. This image was taken from the beach in Vero Beach, Florida. Launch time was 6:13 PM, just before sunset.
The is a shot of the horizon well after #sunset, and after the second attempt of the #SES9 rocket was aborted and ultimately scrubbed on 2/25/16
While shooting a timelapse, I noticed what appeared to be a rocket launch coming from the horizon. I grabbed one of my cameras and took a few extra images. I later learned I witnessed a failed Trident 2 rocket launch.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket as it launched from Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:34 A.M. EDT. It delivered NASA's Lucy Spacecraft into an interplanetary trajectory towards the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids. Over the course of its 12-year mission, Lucy will follow a complex path and fly past 8 asteroids, collecting data on these remnants of the formation of our solar system. This image was shot from Vero Beach, which is about 70 miles (ca. 113 km) south of the launch site. Science Matters.
I set up a couple of cameras on the beach tonight to capture images of the first SpaceX launch of the year. This was a Falcon 9 launching a Turkish communications satellite. It was the first satellite launch of 2021 worldwide and the 104th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket.
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.
🔥🔥🔥: This is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, capable of producing 5 million pounds of thrust, launched Friday at 11:04pm (ET) sending the Echostar24 / Jupiter3 satellite on its way to a geosynchronous orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth.
These images were captured by sound-activated cameras left near the pad Wednesday, where they endured storms and were triggered Thursday night during the Starlink launch. In other words, I had very low expectations for what I'd find on the memory cards.
Because of occasional schedule conflicts I often rely on others to retrieve my gear. For these cameras, Joe Marino checked on my gear Friday and retrieved them earlier today (Saturday). He's great, and his images are always excellent.
Friday night lights for the Space Coast as SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, sending a batch of Starlink satellites to space, seen here over the Indian River Lagoon.
(Bonus: the reentry burn is visible low on the horizon.)
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Viasat-3 Americas payload on top stands upright at LC-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Seen on Thursday afternoon, April 27, 2023, the rocket was scheduled for a 7:29pm (ET) launch. Weather would end up delaying the launch to NET Friday, April 28, 2023.
On Friday, March 15, 2019 United Launch Alliance overcame a number of technical issues to successfully launch the WGS10 satellite atop a DeltaIV Medium rocket.
This is a close-up of the RS68A rocket engine and two of the four solid rocket boosters, captured with a sound-activated camera placed at the pad.
Five or more filters were applied in Color Efex4 to give the shot a moody look.
At 3:28am (ET) Tuesday, United Launch Alliance launched an Atlas V rocket with the LA-04 payload; sent to space were 27 Amazon Leo satellites.
This was the view from Merritt Island.
Bonus: Zoom on the top of the streak & you can see the ejected solid rocket boosters.
(2-frame composite; one for the starry sky, on for the rocket streak)
About an hour before the OA6 AtlasV would launch, I started a time lapse sequence with the intention of getting a star-trail sequence and then the streak of the rocket, but clouds started moving in, and effectively obscured most of the stars. However, during the sequence, at 10:45pm (20 minutes before launch) a very bright shooting star / meteor shot across the sky to the east of the pad (to the right of the image).
The streak of the meteor happened to be visible though the clouds and was captured by the time lapse.
This is a merge of two images. The first image is a 20 second exposure, one of the time lapse frames, and through a break in the clouds you can see the streak of the meteor. The second image is a 163 second exposure of the #AtlasV rocket carrying the #OA6 ISS resupply #Cygnus capsule, launched by United Launch Alliance for Orbital ATK from 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla..
A long exposure of the SpaceX Falcon 9 as it rises over the Atlantic. I took this shot from Vero Beach which is about 70 miles south of where it was launched at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This launch put the JCSAT-18/Kacific1 satellite into orbit.
Better late than never, right?
Delayed by work obligations, these are shots of the Thursday afternoon #CRS19 #Falcon9 #SpaceX rocket launch.
I wasn't able to attend the launch in person, but three cameras set at the pad Wednesday morning braved Florida winter (45 degrees at night = brrr) conditions to capture these images.
Many thanks again to my We Report Space colleagues for doing the heavy lifting for this launch, especially Mike Howard and Scott Schilke waiting around 4 hours after the launch to pick up these cameras.
During my Swiss International Air Lines flight from San Francisco to Zurich on 8th February 2024, I recorded a time lapse movie of the Aurora Borealis, when near Inukjuak, on the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay, a bright spot appeared near the northern horizon at 08:05 UTC.
First, I thought that it was part of the Aurora, but the spot quickly became much too bright to be a northern light. After about a minute the spot started dimming again and a minute later it was completely gone. I quickly checked my camera and was pleased to see that it had recorded the phenomenon near the left edge of the frame.
The spot looked like nothing I had ever seen before, which startled me quite a bit. With its bright center, surrounded by a blue, vortex-like structure, it reminded me of a wormhole from science fiction move and I almost expected to see a Klingon Bird-of-Prey materialize from it.
Of course, this did not happen. I was quite sure that the vortex had been produced by a rocket launch. After landing, I checked the Internet and found that SpaceX had successfully launched NASA's PACE satellite on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral at 06:33 UTC, 1h32min minutes before the vortex appeared in our sky. I therefore am convinced that the vortex has the same cause as a similar sighting in April 18, 2023. That spiral was caused by excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket launched from California.
When rockets, after second stage separation, vent fuel at high altitudes, that fuel turns into ice. As these extremely high altitude ice crystals are illuminated by sunlight, while the sky seen from the ground is still dark, they form a bright cloud, which often appears swirly.
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Canon EOS R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2
Observing platform: Boeing 770-300ER
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‘Twas the day before launch and all across the globe, people await liftoff for Artemis I with hope.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft with its European Service Module, is seen here on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, on 12 November.
After much anticipation, NASA launch authorities have given the GO for the first opportunity for launch: tomorrow, 16 November with a two-hour launch window starting at 07:04 CET (06:04 GMT, 1:04 local time).
Artemis I is the first mission in a large programme to send astronauts around and on the Moon sustainably. This uncrewed first launch will see the Orion spacecraft travel to the Moon, enter an elongated orbit around our satellite and then return to Earth, powered by the European-built service module that supplies electricity, propulsion, fuel, water and air as well as keeping the spacecraft operating at the right temperature.
The European Service Modules are made from components supplied by over 20 companies in ten ESA Member States and USA. As the first European Service Module sits atop the SLS rocket on the launchpad, the second is only 8 km away being integrated with the Orion crew capsule for the first crewed mission – Artemis II. The third and fourth European Service Modules – that will power astronauts to a Moon landing – are in production in Bremen, Germany.
With a 16 November launch, the three-week Artemis I mission would end on 11 December with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The European Service Module detaches from the Orion Crew Module before splashdown and burns up harmlessly in the atmosphere, its job complete after taking Orion to the Moon and back safely.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Inspiration4 zero-g indicator "space puppy" found some battery-powered festive lights and came out to the beach last night for the SpaceX TurkSat5b Falcon9 launch. It was quite a show.
This is a single, 201-second image. I did some light painting with the iPhone flashlight, but the holiday lights are kinda too much (made worse by the humidity of the beach).
When I showed this photo to Lauren, her immediate reaction was outrage: "You took the doggie to the beach?" followed by "Where is the doggie RIGHT NOW?" (as if I had left the dog out there). But I'm obligated to state that no dogs (stuffed, or otherwise) were harmed during this shoot.
This was the scene this (Thurs) morning as the #SpaceX recovery team was removing the legs from the #ArabSat6a #FalconHeavy center core. The #SpaceXFleet returned to @portcanaveral at 2am, carrying the successfully landed first stage. It’s on its side (and the top is missing) after high seas caused the rocket to tip over.
(Pic: me / @wereportspace taken from the @explorationtower observation deck)
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We spent a day launching rockets in a big farm field near Helm, in the Central Valley of California. As sunset approached I walked to a nearby railroad track, which looked abandoned. I took this shot shortly before the sun settled for the day.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.
-- ƒ/6.3, 210 mm, 1/125 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-55210, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5830_hdr1bal1j.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography