Space Launch Complex 40 | Range Tracking

CRS-20

2020/03/07 by terranovabay

SpaceX launched its twentieth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-20) to the International Space Station (ISS) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:50 p.m. on 6 March 2020. This time exposure shows the rocket launch at left and the first stage’s entry burn, upper right, and landing at Landing Zone-1. Click for more information and the CRS-20 photo gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-20, Dragon, Exploration Tower, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, Landing Zone 1, LZ-1, NASA, Port Canaveral, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX

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Starlink 4

2020/02/18 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the fifth group of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on 17 February 2020 at 10:05 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This is the fourth flight of this particular Falcon 9’s first stage. Unfortunately, it missed the landing on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Atlantic and ended up in the water. Additionally, what look like smudges in the image are actually flocks of […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, Starlink, Starlink 4

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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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Telstar 19 Streak Shot

2018/07/23 by terranovabay

Revisiting the Telstar 19 Vantage launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 22 July 2018. A time exposure reveals the arc the rocket takes as it follows the curve of the Earth traveling into orbit. Click for more Telstar 19 launch photos.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, Telesat, Telstar 19 VANTAGE, time exposure

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Telstar 19 VANTAGE

2018/07/22 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the commercial telecommunications Telstar 19 VANTAGE satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 1:50 a.m. on 22 July 2018. Click to see more Telstar 19 VANTAGE launch photos.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, Telesat, Telstar 19 VANTAGE

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SES-12

2018/06/04 by terranovabay

SpaceX launched the SES-12 telecommunication satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. on 4 June 2018. Falcon 9’s first stage for the SES-12 mission previously supported the OTV-5 mission from Launch Complex 39A in September 2017. SpaceX did not attempt to recover Falcon 9’s first stage after launch. SES-12 will provide service for video, fixed data, mobility, and government customers […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Falcon 9 rocket, SES-12, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX

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TESS

2018/04/22 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at 6:51 p.m. on 18 April 2018 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. TESS will search for alien planets ranging from small, rocky worlds to gas giants orbiting bright host stars relatively close to Earth. View my TESS launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, NASA, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, TESS, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

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Hispasat 30W-6

2018/03/08 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:33 a.m. on 6 March 2018 carrying the Hispasat 30W-6 telecommunications satellite into orbit. Click for more information and images of the launch.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Hispasat 30W-6, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX

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ZUMA

2018/01/14 by terranovabay

SpaceX launched the ZUMA spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket the night of 7 January 2018. Separation of the first and second stage created a surreal multicolored light show of intermixing exhaust gasses in the night sky as the two stages maneuvered away from each other. The second stage to continue carrying the ZUMA spacecraft into orbit and the first stage maneuvering to land back at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Click here to see […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Landing Zone 1, LZ-1, Northrop Grumman, SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX, ZUMA

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Industrial landscape past and future

2016/08/22 by terranovabay

Giant cargo cranes along the waterfront at Port Canaveral look like they are paying homage to the future represented by the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster at right used to launch JCSAT-16. After successfully throwing its second stage topped with the satellite into orbit, the first stage booster powered down to a pinpoint landing on a barge located several hundred miles out in the Atlantic Ocean, which eventually made its way back to Port a few days later with its precious […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, droneship, Falcon 9, Japan, JCSAT-16, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Tag: Space Launch Complex 40

CRS-20

Starlink 4

Starlink 1

Telstar 19 Streak Shot

Telstar 19 VANTAGE

SES-12

TESS

Hispasat 30W-6

ZUMA

Industrial landscape past and future