Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

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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Telstar 18 VANTAGE

2018/09/15 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Telstar 18 VANTAGE satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. on 10 September 2018. Following stage separation, the Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Click to view my Telstar 18V gallery of launch & booster return photographs.

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

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Launch Complex 26 over the years

2018/09/01 by terranovabay

The following images show historic Launch Complex 26 (LC-26) from site visits over the years to the Air Force Space & Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The gantry is undergoing a very long term restoration that began in 2005 and is still ongoing. Complex 26 is famous for being the launch site of the United States first satellite on 31 January 1958 to reach orbit, Explorer 1, which discovered the Van Allen radiation belts encircling the Earth. […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Air Force Space & Missile Museum, Blockhouse, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Explorer 1, Launch Complex 26, National Historic Landmark, Redstone

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Black Vultures at LC-34

2018/08/28 by terranovabay

Black Vultures atop some of the concrete remains of Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Black Vulture, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Coragyps atratus, Launch Complex 34, SLC 34

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Into The Stars

2018/08/26 by terranovabay

An experimental image worked up from the launch of the Merah Putih communications satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:18 a.m. on 7 August 2018 shows the trajectory of the rocket in its flight but, also, making the stars more visible.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Indonesia, Merah Putih, PT Telkom, SpaceX, time exposure

Parker Solar Probe Extra

2018/08/19 by terranovabay

Another image from my Parker Solar Probe launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV Heavy, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, SLC 37, Space Launch Complex 37, Sun, ULA, United Launch Alliance

Rocket to the Sun

2018/08/18 by terranovabay

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched NASA’s Parker Solar Probe on 12 August 2018 at 3:31 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the sun. After launch, it will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere – the corona – closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone. While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal fundamental science behind what […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV Heavy, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, SLC 37, Space Launch Complex 37, Sun, ULA, United Launch Alliance

No Go for Parker Solar Probe

2018/08/11 by terranovabay

Technical problems plagued the 11 August 2018 liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket poised to send NASA’s Parker Solar Probe towards its rendezvous with the Sun from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Launch attempts at 3:53 a.m. and 4:28 a.m. both ran into snags that could not be fixed before the launch window closed at 4:38 a.m. on a rather dewy morning scrubbing the launch for the day. The launch team […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Delta IV Heavy, Launch Complex 37, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, Sun, ULA, United Launch Alliance

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Merah Putih time exposure

2018/08/08 by terranovabay

A time exposure shows the Merah Putih launch for Indonesia aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:18 a.m. on 7 August 2018. Click to view my Merah Putih launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Indonesia, Merah Putih, PT Telkom, SpaceX, time exposure

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Tag: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Telstar 18 booster returns to Port Canaveral

Lightning around the launch pad

Telstar 18 VANTAGE

Launch Complex 26 over the years

Black Vultures at LC-34

Into The Stars

Parker Solar Probe Extra

Rocket to the Sun

No Go for Parker Solar Probe

Merah Putih time exposure

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