Kennedy Space Center | Range Tracking

LC-39A Update

2018/12/21 by terranovabay

Views of Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center taken on 18 December 2018. SpaceX is currently in the midst of a twenty year lease on LC-39A, the historic pad from the Apollo and Space Shuttle eras now refurbished to launch Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. Also launching from this pad soon, astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft that will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The white arm sticking out to the right is the Crew Access Arm […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Crew Dragon, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, KSC, Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, SpaceX

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Es’hail-2

2018/11/19 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A carrying the Es’hail-2 communications satellite for the Qatar Satellite Company to provide service throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Liftoff occurred on time at 3:46 p.m. on 15 November 2018. Click to view the complete launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Es’hail-2, Falcon 9, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, Qatar Satellite Company, SpaceX

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King of the Tripod

2018/11/16 by terranovabay

A Cuban Brown Anole climbed to the top of my tripod to get closer to the Sun for what warmth it could get on a bleak day while I was waiting for the launch of the Es’hail-2 communications satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center.

Categories: Nature • Tags: Brown Anole, Es’hail-2, Kennedy Space Center

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Ranch Saturday: STS-126

2018/11/10 by terranovabay

STS-126 on a construction, resupply, and crew transfer mission to the International Space Station carried out by the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center at 7:55 p.m. on 14 November 2008 into a sky lit bright by the full Moon. This view is the full wide-angle image of the launch, which includes the Moon blown out at right by the long time exposure capturing the streak of the Space Shuttle’s flight as seen from a cow pasture at […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Endeavour, Florida Cattle Ranch, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space Shuttle, STS-126, Treasure Hammock Ranch

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SLS ML at 39B – Part Two

2018/09/03 by terranovabay

Traveling at a top speed of .7-mile-per-hour, the mobile launcher made its inaugural trek along the crawlerway to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B for a quick fit check during late August and early September 2018. Key systems being checked out over the next several days include ensuring the water suppression systems align and the environmental control system that provides air and gaseous nitrogen purges to the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket through the umbilicals hooks up properly with the […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39B, Mars, Mobile Launcher, Moon, NASA, Orion, Pied-billed Grebe, SLS, Space Launch System, VAB, Vehicle Assembly Building

SLS ML at 39B – Part One

2018/09/02 by terranovabay

The mobile launcher (ML) is the ground structure that will be used to assemble, process and launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center for missions to deep space destinations, such as the Moon, Mars and beyond. The SLS, topped by the Orion spacecraft, will be stacked atop the mobile launcher while inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Afterward the mobile launcher will be moved by the crawler-transporter over four […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39B, Mars, Mobile Launcher, Moon, NASA, Orion, SLS, Space Launch System, VAB, Vehicle Assembly Building

Rocket Security

2018/06/24 by terranovabay

A NASA helicopter performs a security sweep at Kennedy Space Center prior to the scrubbed launch attempt of Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on 10 May 2018.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Bangabandhu Satellite-1, helicopter, Kennedy Space Center, KSC

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Return to Flight

2018/06/10 by terranovabay

The Space Shuttle Discovery on Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center prior to its launch on mission STS-114 in July 2005. This would be the Space Shuttle Program’s return to flight following the Columbia accident in February 2003. Discovery carried out the STS-114 mission, a resupply mission to the International Space Station, without a problem This is a highly magnified view through a refracting telescope taken from Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge showing the external fuel tank and the […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Columbia, Discovery, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39B, Return to Flight, Space Shuttle

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Space Station Deferred

2018/05/24 by terranovabay

Years ago at the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program and long before the International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex used to have a mockup of a future space station complete with animatronic astronauts. The idea was this is something the Space Shuttle would help to build although it looked a little sci-fi to keep it interesting. Sadly, this large station would not be built but the exhibit was fun. You know they are in space because the […]

Categories: Darkroom Photography • Tags: Kennedy Space Center, Space Shuttle, Space Station

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Bangabandhu Satellite-1 Launch Time Lapse

2018/05/13 by terranovabay

A time lapse video made from still images captured by a second camera setup for the launch of Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on 11 May 2018 at 4:14 p.m. from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Click here to view my Bangabandhu Satellite-1 launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Bangabandhu Satellite-1, Bangladesh, Block 5, Falcon 9, Friend of Bengal, Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A, Space Launch Complex 39A, SpaceX, Thales Alenia Space

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Tag: Kennedy Space Center

LC-39A Update

Es’hail-2

King of the Tripod

Ranch Saturday: STS-126

SLS ML at 39B – Part Two

SLS ML at 39B – Part One

Rocket Security

Return to Flight

Space Station Deferred

Bangabandhu Satellite-1 Launch Time Lapse

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