Rocket Launch | Range Tracking

Starlink 1

2019/11/15 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on 11 November 2019 at 9:56 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SpaceX is developing a low latency, global broadband internet system enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites called Starlink. Click to view the launch gallery including an experimental launch video.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, Starlink

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ICON

2019/10/14 by terranovabay

Photographing the launch of the Pegasus XL rocket carrying the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) from its Stargazer L-1011 aircraft flying over the Atlantic Ocean offshore of Cape Canaveral was always going to be challenging but the partly-cloudy skies really did it in. Click to view what was expected and what happened.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ICON, Ionospheric Connection Explorer, L-1011, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Pegasus, Stargazer

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GPS III SV02

2019/08/25 by terranovabay

The Solid Rocket Motors separate at 1 minute 40 seconds into the flight of the last single-core Delta IV rocket on 22 August 2019 delivering the second Global Positioning System (GPS) III spacecraft, “Magellan,” into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Click to view the gallery of launch images.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV, Global Positioning System, GPS III SV02, Kennedy Space Center, Magellan, SLC 37, ULA, United Launch Alliance

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GPS III SV02 Magellan Preview

2019/08/22 by terranovabay

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket launches GPS III SV02 “Magellan” from SLC-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as seen from the LC-39 Observation Gantry at Kennedy Space Center at 9:06AM on 22 August 2019. More images of the launch to follow. Probably this weekend when I can find the time to work them.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV, Global Positioning System, GPS III SV02, Kennedy Space Center, Magellan, SLC 37, ULA, United Launch Alliance

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AEHF-5 Streak Shot

2019/08/12 by terranovabay

A parting shot of AEHF-5 carried by its Atlas V rocket streaking off into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the early morning hours of 8 August 2019. Click to view the launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Advanced Extremely High Frequency, AEHF-5, Air Force, Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ULA, ULA Social, United Launch Alliance

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AEHF-5

2019/08/11 by terranovabay

I participated in the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Social Media event featuring tours of ULA and Air Force facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station culminating in the launch of an Atlas V rocket carrying AEHF-5, an advanced military communications satellite, into orbit on 8 August 2019. Click to view two pages of selected photos from the event.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Advanced Extremely High Frequency, AEHF-5, Air Force, Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ULA, ULA Social, United Launch Alliance

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AMOS-17

2019/08/06 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the AMOS-17 communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:23 p.m. on 6 August 2019. Falcon 9’s first stage for the AMOS-17 mission previously supported the Telstar-19 VANTAGE mission in July 2018 and the Es’hail-2 mission in November 2018. The image is a long distance view through rain clouds taken in drizzling rain that obscured the rocket but the clouds could not hide the bright flame. […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: AMOS-17, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, SpaceX

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CRS-18

2019/07/28 by terranovabay

Check out the selected photos from the launch and booster landing of the CRS-18 resupply mission to the International Space Station on 25 July 2019. Click to view gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-18, Dragon, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, SpaceX

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Ascent Abort-2

2019/07/05 by terranovabay

A Peacekeeper ICBM missile stage reworked into a civilian Minotaur IV stage boosts the Orion crew module Ascent Abort-2 test flight into the air over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 2 July 2019 at 7:00 a.m. from Launch Complex 46. The test is to prove the reliability and safety of the Launch Abort System (LAS) that will be used on NASA’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will be used to carry astronauts to the Moon and Mars. […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: AA-2. Orion, Ascent Abort-2, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, LAS, Launch Abort System, Launch Complex 46, Minotaur IV, Peacekeeper ICBM, SLS, Space Launch System

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STP-2

2019/06/27 by terranovabay

Late night excitement as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster launched at 2:30 a.m. on 25 June 2019 carrying 24 separate spacecraft into orbit for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2). In this almost nine minute time exposure, the arc of the rocket into orbit gives way over seven minutes later to the entry burns of the twin boosters seen at top as two parallel lines. Then the boosters fall before starting their engines again, seen as the two […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Department of Defense, DoD, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Test Program, SpaceX, STP-2

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Category Archives: Rocket Launch

Starlink 1

ICON

GPS III SV02

GPS III SV02 Magellan Preview

AMOS-17

CRS-18

Ascent Abort-2

STP-2

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