Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Falcon 9 shoots for the Moon

2019/02/21 by terranovabay

Looking forward to tonight’s launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will loft three payloads into space. The largest will be PSN-VI, a geostationary communications satellite named Nusantara Satu for the country of Indonesia. The second payload and the one garnering the most attention is an Israeli-built lunar lander called Beresheet that will attempt a soft landing on the Moon. The third and smallest payload is a small demonstration spacecraft for the U.S. military […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: 45th Space Wing, Beresheet, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Indonesia, Israel, Lunar Lander, Moon, Nusantara Satu, PSN-VI, S5, SpaceX

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GPS III SV01

2018/12/23 by terranovabay

After previous delays due to weather and technical problems, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket finally launched the United States Air Force’s first Global Positioning System III space vehicle (SV) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:51 a.m. on 23 December 2018. Click to view the launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, GPS III SV01, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, U.S. Air Force

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NO GO For Winds Aloft

2018/12/22 by terranovabay

The launch of the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III SV01 stood down for another day on 22 December 2018 after strong upper level winds failed to die down after a front passed through. The skyline of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station shows the rocket venting gaseous oxygen during fueling as the sun rose. Optimism ran high that the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket would launch on what appeared to be a beautiful morning, at least on the ground, to the point […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, GPS III SV01, SpaceX, U.S. Air Force

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All Steamed Up & Nowhere To Go

2018/12/19 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vents gaseous oxygen into the cold morning air during fueling in preparation to launch a GPS satellite for the U.S. Air Force on 18 December 2018 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Strong upper level winds caused a delay in the count in the hopes the winds would die down. When they did, a technical problem on the first stage forced a scrub for the day. Things are on track to […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, GPS III SV01, Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, U.S. Air Force

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Water Landing

2018/12/10 by terranovabay

The SpaceX Falcon 9 booster for the CRS-16 mission floats in the water at Port Canaveral after being towed in earlier in the day on 7 December 2018. The booster strayed off course as it attempted to touchdown on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. A failure of one of the grid fins that help steer and stabilize the rocket during its descent failed causing the rocket to come down further to the east in the Atlantic […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-16, Falcon 9, Port Canaveral, SpaceX

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CRS-16

2018/12/07 by terranovabay

SpaceX launched its sixteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-16) to the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:16 p.m. on 5 December 2018 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Click to view the photo gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply Services, CRS-16, Dragon, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, SpaceX

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Dusk For Dawn

2018/11/02 by terranovabay

From the 1 November 2018 NASA press release: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system’s earliest chapter. Dawn missed scheduled communications sessions with NASA’s Deep Space Network on Wednesday, Oct. 31, and Thursday, Nov. 1. After the flight team eliminated other possible causes for the missed communications, mission managers concluded that the spacecraft finally ran out of hydrazine, the fuel that enables the spacecraft to control its pointing. Dawn […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Asteroid, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Ceres, dawn, Delta 2, NASA, Vesta

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AEHF-4

2018/10/17 by terranovabay

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) 4 communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force on 17 October 2018 at 12:15 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as seen here in a time exposure looking north over the Indian River Lagoon. Click to view my AEHF-4 launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Advanced Extremely High Frequency, AEHF-4, Atlas V, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Indian River Lagoon, SLC 41, Space Launch Complex 41, U.S. Air Force, ULA, United Launch Alliance

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Telstar 18 booster returns to Port Canaveral

2018/09/17 by terranovabay

The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage used for the Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite launch returns to Port Canaveral on 12 September 2018 aboard the Of Course I Still Love You droneship that the booster landed on about eight minutes after launch a few hundred miles out in the Atlantic Ocean. Click to view a gallery of my Telstar 18 Vantage launch & booster recovery photos.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, droneship, Falcon 9, OCISLY, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SpaceX, Telstar 18 VANTAGE

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Lightning around the launch pad

2018/09/16 by terranovabay

Lightning and rain around Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station delayed the launch of the Telstar 18 Vantage communications satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for over an hour until the weather cleared allowing for lift off at 12:45AM on 10 September 2018. Click to view a gallery of my Telstar 18 Vantage launch & booster recovery photos.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Launch Complex 40, LC 40, lightning, SpaceX, Telstar 18 VANTAGE

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Tag: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Falcon 9 shoots for the Moon

GPS III SV01

NO GO For Winds Aloft

All Steamed Up & Nowhere To Go

Water Landing

CRS-16

Dusk For Dawn

AEHF-4

Telstar 18 booster returns to Port Canaveral

Lightning around the launch pad

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