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SpaceX Crew-2 with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet arrive at NASA's Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on 16 April 2021.
French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is returning to the International Space Station on his second spaceflight. The mission, which is called Alpha, will see the first European to launch on a US spacecraft in over a decade. Thomas is flying on the Crew Dragon, alongside NASA astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.
The Crew-2 launch is scheduled for 22 April at 11:11 BST/12:11 CEST.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The ISS (left streak) and SpaceX supply ship Dragon (right streak) were just 5 degrees apart at 10:18pm over Ottawa tonight. Nikon D7000 6 second exposure.
Space X manned launch from Cape Canaveral as seen from my brother-in-law's security camera in Seneca SC.
SpaceX lit up the Florida skies this morning with the latest batch of Starlink 4-17 satellites at 5:42 a.m. EDT, from LC-39A on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. When the rocket exhaust is illuminated by the sun, it starts to look like a space jellyfish.
CRS6 - Dragon spacecraft & Falcon 9 Booster v1.1 was the second version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 orbital launch vehicle.
iss052e000436 (June 5, 2017) --- The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm moments after it was captured early Monday June 5, 2017.
SpaceX Falcon 9 pops into view after launching from SLC-4 at Vandenberg AFB. The pad was slightly under 4 miles from where I am taking the photo, when I took this shot I could not hear the rocket.
Uzay aracı ve roket üreticisi SpaceX, Mars’a ilk uçuşunu 2018’te yapmayı planlıyor.
Şirketin kurucusu ve Üst Yöneticisi Elon Musk, Twitter’daki hesabından yaptığı açıklamada “Kızıl Ejderha (Red Dragon)” adlı uzay aracını 2018’te Mars’ın yüzeyine indirmeyi...
www.mobilyasam.com/spacex-ilk-marsa-yolculuk-icin-tarih-v...
Standing in front of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Congratulations SpaceX and Elon Musk on a successful launch.
International Spaceflight Museum - Spaceport Alpha, Spaceport Alpha (47, 77, 24) in Second Life.
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SpaceX launch a Falcon 9 from SLC-4 @ 2214 PDT on Vandenberg SFB, California. A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation.
New spacecraft, new training! The SpaceX headquarters are in Hawthorne, California, and we spent many weeks there to learn how to tame the Dragon that will take us to the Space Station, and back to Earth. We learnt how to handle the systems (propulsion, navigation, thermal control and so on) and familiarise ourselves with the flight procedures that were tested in more and more extreme simulations. 99% of commanding the spacecraft is done through touchscreens (including manual control). I will be in the right-hand seat (seen from launch direction 😉), Aki on the left-most seat. Megan is our pilot and will be sitting to my left with Shane, our commander, next to her. An important part of our training was trying out our flight suits that are made to measure and incorporate lots of technology (communication systems, air conditioning, oxygen and more). We wear them at all critical moments during flight (launch, approach and docking, departure and landing), and they look very futuristic and cool, which is a bonus of course. The suits protect us if anything bad happens such as fire or pressure loss in the capsule… but it won’t! A big thank you to the instructors that worked with us to make sure we are ready and prepared to the best possible level.
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Nouveau vaisseau spatial, nouvel entraînement ! Les installations de SpaceX se trouvent à Hawthorne, en Californie. Avec mes coéquipiers, on y a passé de nombreuses semaines pour apprendre à maîtriser le Dragon qui nous emmènera vers l’ISS et nous ramènera sur Terre. Il s'agit de maîtriser les différents systèmes de la capsule (propulsion, navigation, contrôle thermique, etc.), et de s'approprier les procédures d'abord normales puis de plus en plus dégradées, au simulateur, pour apprendre à faire face à toutes les situations envisageables en vol. 99% de l'interaction avec le véhicule (dont le pilotage manuel) se fait grâce à des écrans tactiles grand format ☝️ Je serai installé sur le siège à droite (dans le sens de la marche 😉), et Aki sur celui de gauche. Au centre, le poste de pilote juste à ma gauche sera occupé par Megan, et Shane sera le commandant de la capsule. Une partie importante de l'entraînement consiste aussi à savoir utiliser nos scaphandres sur mesure pleins de technologie (communication, ventilation, oxygène, etc). On les portera pendant toutes les phases critiques du vol (décollage, approche et arrimage à la station, départ et retour sur terre), et en plus d'avoir un look futuriste sympa 😎 ils nous protègent surtout au cas où quelque chose de grave arriverait comme un incendie ou une dépressurisation de la capsule... mais ça n’arrivera pas ! Merci à nos instructeurs chez SpaceX qui ont travaillé sans relâche pour que nous soyons prêts à temps et au meilleur niveau possible.
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Credits: SpaceX
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Starlink 6-49
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
Photos taken during the early morning of Monday, October 30, 2017 during remote camera setup. The KoreaSat5A payload is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today (October 30, 2017); the launch window opens at 3:34pm (ET) (Photos by Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base as seen from Saguaro National Park East in Tucson, Arizona
New spacecraft, new training! The SpaceX headquarters are in Hawthorne, California, and we spent many weeks there to learn how to tame the Dragon that will take us to the Space Station, and back to Earth. We learnt how to handle the systems (propulsion, navigation, thermal control and so on) and familiarise ourselves with the flight procedures that were tested in more and more extreme simulations. 99% of commanding the spacecraft is done through touchscreens (including manual control). I will be in the right-hand seat (seen from launch direction 😉), Aki on the left-most seat. Megan is our pilot and will be sitting to my left with Shane, our commander, next to her. An important part of our training was trying out our flight suits that are made to measure and incorporate lots of technology (communication systems, air conditioning, oxygen and more). We wear them at all critical moments during flight (launch, approach and docking, departure and landing), and they look very futuristic and cool, which is a bonus of course. The suits protect us if anything bad happens such as fire or pressure loss in the capsule… but it won’t! A big thank you to the instructors that worked with us to make sure we are ready and prepared to the best possible level.
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#AlphaTrainingRecap Nouveau vaisseau spatial, nouvel entraînement ! Les installations de SpaceX se trouvent à Hawthorne, en Californie. Avec mes coéquipiers, on y a passé de nombreuses semaines pour apprendre à maîtriser le Dragon qui nous emmènera vers l’ISS et nous ramènera sur Terre. Il s'agit de maîtriser les différents systèmes de la capsule (propulsion, navigation, contrôle thermique, etc.), et de s'approprier les procédures d'abord normales puis de plus en plus dégradées, au simulateur, pour apprendre à faire face à toutes les situations envisageables en vol. 99% de l'interaction avec le véhicule (dont le pilotage manuel) se fait grâce à des écrans tactiles grand format ☝️ Je serai installé sur le siège à droite (dans le sens de la marche 😉), et Aki sur celui de gauche. Au centre, le poste de pilote juste à ma gauche sera occupé par Megan, et Shane sera le commandant de la capsule. Une partie importante de l'entraînement consiste aussi à savoir utiliser nos scaphandres sur mesure pleins de technologie (communication, ventilation, oxygène, etc). On les portera pendant toutes les phases critiques du vol (décollage, approche et arrimage à la station, départ et retour sur terre), et en plus d'avoir un look futuriste sympa 😎 ils nous protègent surtout au cas où quelque chose de grave arriverait comme un incendie ou une dépressurisation de la capsule... mais ça n’arrivera pas ! Merci à nos instructeurs chez SpaceX qui ont travaillé sans relâche pour que nous soyons prêts à temps et au meilleur niveau possible.
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Credits: SpaceX
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as excitement builds for the launch tonight. Here's a short time-lapse video of it going vertical.
You can watch the webcast live starting at 4:55pm, and the narrow launch window is at 5:35pm PDT.
From SpaceX: "If all goes as planned, Dragon will arrive at the station on Wednesday, October 10, when it will be grappled and berthed to the complex for an expected two-week visit. Dragon is scheduled to return to Earth on October 28 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of southern California. Dragon is the only space station cargo craft capable of returning a significant amount of supplies back to Earth, including experiments.
Dragon will be filled with about 1,000 pounds of supplies, including critical materials to support the 166 investigations planned for the station’s Expedition 33 crew, of which 63 will be new. Dragon will return with about 734 pounds of scientific materials, including results from human research, biotechnology, materials and education experiments, as well as about 504 pounds of space station hardware."
This photo by Todd Huffman; others by me and SpaceX below.
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)
They arrived today from Rocket-Santa! Whooa-ho-ho-ho!
The Falcon9 model on the right is available on Amazon, and I plan to built it for a local launch. Although it says the largest motor it can take is an Estes C6-5, I will probably try an Aerotech D10-7 with twice the punch in the same volume.
The Falcon9 Heavy on the left is a contractor's model for display here. It is being prepared for a launch at Vandenberg AFB.
Next month, I hope to watch the Falcon9 launch that will dock with the ISS. From today’s news: “Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are psyched about a mission next month that will open a new era of commercial cargo deliveries to the orbital outpost.
U.S. flight engineer Don Pettit likened the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the pioneering opening of the American West in the 19th century.
“It’s sort of the first of many wagons coming up here to bring us supplies,” Pettit said Wednesday.
“I think for all of us, we’re very excited about it,” added U.S. astronaut Dan Burbank, the current station commander.”
P.S. Updates and many SpaceX photos here, and the ones I have posted here.
So this was a lucky shot, one of two taken by a sound-activated camera set at the pad approximately 12 hours before the #SpaceX #CRS15 #Falcon9 rocket would launch.
It was very rainy when we were setting up the cameras, which was a problem, but the biggest challenge (for me at least) was not knowing exactly where the rocket would be, as it was horizontal when we were there.
So, I pointed the zoom lens at where I thought the rocket would be and crossed my fingers. For the focus, I realized that I still had my focus ring taped from the last Falcon9 launch. Since I was setting the camera in approximately the same location, I just left the focus ring where it was.
Frankly, I'm surprised I had anything in the frame...
(Photo me / We Report Space) — at Kennedy Space Center.