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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 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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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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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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A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster makes a succesful landing at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after sending a classified satellite (NROL-76) into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff was at 7:15 a.m. on 1 May 2017 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A with the landing happening a little over eight minutes later. Click to view the gallery of NROL-76 launch and landing photographs.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Kennedy Space Center, Landing Zone 1, Launch Complex 39A, National Reconnaissance Office, NROL-76, SpaceX
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SpaceX ran the Transporter Erector (TE) through its paces at Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in the hours before the launch of OA-7 from nearby Launch Complex 41. “Standing 212 feet high – more than 20 stories,” as a NASA press release explains, the Transporter Erector ”. . .will move launch-ready rockets and spacecraft from the processing hangar at the base of the pad up to the pad surface and into a vertical position over the flame […]
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Falcon 9, Falcon 9 Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, NASA, SpaceX, TE, Transporter Erector
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It is all about the lighting. Having to shoot almost directly into the sun turns the launch of an Atlas V rocket carrying a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station into a silhouette, albeit a rather spectacular silhouette, at 11:11AM on 18 April 2017 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Click to view more of the launch photos.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cygnus, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, OA-7, Orbital ATK, ULA, United Launch Alliance
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The twice-flown SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage has returned to Port Canaveral and is back on shore. Click to view the images added to the SES-10 launch photo gallery.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: droneship, Falcon 9 rocket, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Launch Complex 39A, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SES-10, SpaceX
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is not quite clear of the tower yet in this photo from the 30 March 2017 launch of the SES-10 satellite. Lots of reusable items here, including the old shuttle launch pad getting a new lease on life with SpaceX, and the Falcon 9 first stage, which flew once before less than a year ago and is now proving it can do it again. Click to view the rest of my SES-10 launch photos.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Falcon 9 rocket, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Launch Complex 39A, SES-10, SpaceX
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the ninth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) satellite for the United States Air Force lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-37 at 8:18 p.m. on 18 March 2017. “This launch commemorates the 70th anniversary of the USAF.” said Laura Maginnis, ULA vice president of Government Satellite Launch. “We are absolutely honored to play a role in this important milestone, while safely delivering WGS-9 to orbit.” WGS satellites are […]
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV rocket, SLC 37, Space Launch Complex 37, ULA, United Launch Alliance, United States Air Force, WGS-9, Wideband Global SATCOM
