Space Age Bulletins | Range Tracking

Tracking Station

2020/06/15 by terranovabay

Here are some old photos, minus the historic black and white image, I had taken of a decommissioned U.S. Air Force tracking station that used to be along US-1 opposite Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Most likely the station dates back to the early days of the Eastern Test Range of the late 1950s and was used to track the early rocket and missile launches. The station has since been torn down. An online search failed […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Brevard County, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, tracking station, U.S. Air Force, US-1, USAF

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DM-2 Booster Return to Port Canaveral

2020/06/06 by terranovabay

The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster used to launch the DM-2 mission carrying Crew Dragon with two NASA astronauts onboard to the International Space Staton returned to Port Canaveral on 2 June 2020 three days after its historic launch. The booster landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship about eight minutes after launch. Click to view more photos of the DM-2 booster return to Port Canaveral.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Crew Dragon, droneship, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SpaceX

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USSF-7 Weather Scrub

2020/05/16 by terranovabay

Seemingly endless stormy weather from a developing tropical storm kept the USSF-7 mission grounded for at least another day at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday, 16 May 2020. The rain was so severe at times that the launch pad with its Atlas V rocket was lost to view at times.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Space Force, ULA, United Launch, USSF-7, X-37B

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Launch Traffic

2020/03/27 by terranovabay

The cars are bumper-to-bumper on the the Max Brewer Bridge going over the Indian River Lagoon in Titusville after the 15 March 2020 scrub of Starlink 5. It looks like a pain but actually the traffic was moving quite well and we were out of it in a few minutes.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Max Brewer Bridge, Starlink, Titusville

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RocketShip

2020/03/11 by terranovabay

United Launch Alliance (ULA) recently renamed their rocket transporting ship to “RocketShip”. The ship is seen here in Port Canaveral unloading Delta rocket boosters to be used in the launch of a Delta-Heavy flight later in the year. The boosters are assembled in Decatur, Alabama and brought by RocketShip either to Port Canaveral for launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or to California for launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Besides Delta rockets, the RocketShip also carries the Atlas […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Alabama, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Decatur, Port Canaveral, rocketship, ULA, United Launch Alliance, Vandenberg Air Force Base

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Retired but not forgotten

2019/11/04 by terranovabay

A view from inside Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building looking out the open doors of High Bay #4. Discovery sits in silhouette while beyond, under Discovery’s wing at right, can be seen Atlantis waiting to enter the Orbiter Processing Facility in March 2012. Click to relive the retirement of the Space Shuttle Program.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space Shuttle

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Imperial Atlantis

2019/10/16 by terranovabay

One of my favorite photos of the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has Star Wars Imperial officers, a Scout Trooper sans speeder bike, and a stormtrooper posing with the orbiter. They were there as part of a symphonic concert a few years ago but it makes for a nice Halloween remembrance. Click to see more images from that night.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Atlantis, Galactic Empire, Halloween, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Space Shuttle, Star Wars, Stormtrooper

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History on view from a distance

2019/08/27 by terranovabay

A high elevation reveals a few historic structures rising above the trees out on the expanse of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. At left is Launch Complex 5/6 where a Mercury-Redstone rocket stands on the old launch pad commemorating the first Mercury flights carrying American astronauts into space. Rising in the center is Cape Canaveral Lighthouse. The original Cape Canaveral Lighthouse was an iron tower built in 1868 that operated until shoreline erosion in the mid 1890s forced it to […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral Lighthouse, Hanger C, Launch Complex 5/6, Mercury-Redstone, Wernher Von Braun

Launching the Artemis Generation

2019/08/23 by terranovabay

The second phase, or extension, if you will, of the Apollo Program is coming to light 50 years after it should have been initiated. Better late than never, I guess. Plans to return astronauts to the Moon, this time to build a small space station called Gateway in lunar orbit, with astronauts visiting the surface for longer periods of exploration, are starting to come together under the name of Artemis. According to NASA, “Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo and […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Artemis, Kennedy Space Center, Mobile Launch Tower, Mobile Launcher, Moon, SLS, Space Launch System

Counting down to Delta IV GPS III Magellan

2019/08/21 by terranovabay

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Medium+ (4,2) rocket will deliver the second GPS III spacecraft, “Magellan,” to a medium earth orbit (MEO) for the U.S. Air Force Space & Missile Systems Center. Liftoff is planned to occur from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on 22 August 2019. SLC-37 is seen a couple of weeks before the launch with the Delta IV launch vehicle safely tucked away inside the Mobile Service Tower as seen from […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: ASOC, Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV, Delta IV rocket, Global Positioning System, GPS, GPS III SV02, Magellan, SLC 37, Space Launch Complex 37, ULA, United Launch Alliance

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Category Archives: Space Age Bulletins

Tracking Station

DM-2 Booster Return to Port Canaveral

USSF-7 Weather Scrub

Launch Traffic

RocketShip

Retired but not forgotten

Imperial Atlantis

History on view from a distance

Launching the Artemis Generation

Counting down to Delta IV GPS III Magellan