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OTV-5 returns to orbit

2017/09/08 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the OTV-5 mission into orbit for the U.S. Air Force at 10:00 a.m. on 7 September 2017 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. About eight minutes after launch, the Falcon 9 first stage successfully landed at Landing Zone 1 at the adjacent Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This is the fifth flight of the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), a small, winged, reusable spacecraft that looks like a tiny version of […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, Orbital Test Vehicle, OTV-5, SpaceX, U.S. Air Force, X-37B

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SensorSat Soars To Orbit Aboard Minotaur IV

2017/08/26 by terranovabay

An Orbital ATK Minotaur IV rocket, built from retired components of a Peacemaker intercontinental ballistic missile, launched at 2:04 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 26 August 2017. This rocket carried the SensorSat Demonstration satellite into orbit on the Operationally Responsive Space-5 (ORS-5) mission. SensorSat is a U.S. Air Force space surveillance system that will demonstrate the ability to observe other objects in orbit. This is the first launch of a Minotaur rocket […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Air Force, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 46, Minotaur IV, Operationally Responsive Space-5, Orbital ATK, ORS-5, SensorSat

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The Great American Eclipse of 2017

2017/08/21 by terranovabay

Views of the solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 as seen from the pollinator garden at Audubon House at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. While totality swept across the continental United States, thrilling millions, down low on peninsular Florida the Moon only eked out a partial eclipse. While totality may have eluded us, this example of heavenly bodies moving stately through their paths in the cosmic clockwork was spectacular in its own right. The Moon made first contact with the […]

Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: Audubon House, eclipse, Florida, Indian River County, Moon, ORCA, Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Solar Eclipse, Sun, sunspots

Atlas V launches TDRS-M

2017/08/20 by terranovabay

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket launched the Tracking Data and Relay Satellite-M (TDRS-M) into a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:29 a.m on 18 August 2017. NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) is a space-based communication system used to provide tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services. The TDRSS, also referred to as the NASA Space Network, consists of satellites in geosynchronous stationary orbits and […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, NASA, SLC 41, Space Launch Complex 41, TDRS-M, Tracking Data and Relay Satellite, United Launch Alliance

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Falcon 9 launches CRS-12

2017/08/17 by terranovabay

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a Dragon spacecraft to low-Earth orbit to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station for NASA from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 12:31 p.m. on 14 August 2017. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida approximately eight minutes after launch. The image shows the first stage falling just prior to commencing the landing burn to place […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-12, Dragon spacecraft, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, Landing Zone 1, LZ-1, NASA, SpaceX

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Ave Orion

2017/08/12 by terranovabay

Living in Florida, there sometimes appears to be only two seasons. One hot, and one not-so-hot. Sadly, the not-so-hot season, which normal people in other places call winter, is all too short. Great masses of cold air fighting their way southward down from the Arctic usually peter out before they can cross the state line, let alone making it halfway down the peninsula to cool all the hotheads clinging desperately to the paradise fantasy. As I am constantly looking up […]

Categories: Astrophotography • Tags: constellation, Florida, Orion, winter

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Intelsat 35e heads toward orbit

2017/07/07 by terranovabay

Intelsat 35e gets a boost to orbit from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:38 p.m. from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The commercial communications satellite is seen here streaking to orbit in a time exposure. Click to view the rest of the launch photos.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Falcon 9 rocket, Intelsat 35e, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, SpaceX, telecommunications satellite

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A satellite for Bulgaria

2017/06/24 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches BulgariaSat-1, a commercial communications satellite, into orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 3:10 p.m. on 23 June 2017. Click to view more images and a short video of the launch.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Bulgaria, BulgariaSat-1, droneship, Falcon 9, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, OCISLY, Of Course I Still Love You, SpaceX

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SpaceX CRS-11 Mission

2017/06/04 by terranovabay

The SpaceX CRS-11 Falcon 9 first stage is pictured moments before landing at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a blustery late afternoon on 3 June 2017. Learn more and see the rest of the launch and landing photos and video at http://www.lunarcabin.com/Rocket_Launches/CRS11.html.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply, CRS-11, Dragon, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, Landing Zone 1, Launch Complex 39A, NASA, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., SpaceX

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches INMARSAT-5 F4

2017/05/16 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the INMARSAT-5 F4 commercial communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 7:21 p.m. on 15 May 2017. INMARSAT-5 F4 is the fourth satellite in the Global Xpress constellation; the world’s first globally available, high speed, mobile broadband service for users on land, at sea, and in the air. The satellite was built by Boeing Network & Space Systems. Due to the weight of the satellite, the first stage did […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Boeing Network & Space Systems, Falcon 9, Global Xpress, INMARSAT-5 F4, Kennedy Space Center, Roseate Spoonbill, Space Launch Complex 39A, SpaceX

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Category Archives: AeroSpace

OTV-5 returns to orbit

SensorSat Soars To Orbit Aboard Minotaur IV

The Great American Eclipse of 2017

Atlas V launches TDRS-M

Falcon 9 launches CRS-12

Ave Orion

Intelsat 35e heads toward orbit

A satellite for Bulgaria

SpaceX CRS-11 Mission

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches INMARSAT-5 F4

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