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AMOS-17

2019/08/06 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the AMOS-17 communications satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:23 p.m. on 6 August 2019. Falcon 9’s first stage for the AMOS-17 mission previously supported the Telstar-19 VANTAGE mission in July 2018 and the Es’hail-2 mission in November 2018. The image is a long distance view through rain clouds taken in drizzling rain that obscured the rocket but the clouds could not hide the bright flame. […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: AMOS-17, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, SpaceX

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CRS-18

2019/07/28 by terranovabay

Check out the selected photos from the launch and booster landing of the CRS-18 resupply mission to the International Space Station on 25 July 2019. Click to view gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-18, Dragon, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, SpaceX

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CRS-18 Weather Delay

2019/07/25 by terranovabay

Chances were slim the massive front of disturbed weather filled with rainstorms and lightning trekking across Florida would clear out of the area in time for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sending a Dragon spacecraft filled with supplies to the International Space Station on 24 July 2019. As expected, the bad weather forced the rocket to remain on the ground at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station pending its next launch attempt on 25 […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, CRS-18, Dragon, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, SpaceX

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Fiery Tail of STP-2

2019/06/28 by terranovabay

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launching STP-2 produces a massive fiery tail as it heads to orbit on the vehicle’s first night launch. Click for more.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Department of Defense, DoD, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Test Program, SpaceX, STP-2

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STP-2

2019/06/27 by terranovabay

Late night excitement as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster launched at 2:30 a.m. on 25 June 2019 carrying 24 separate spacecraft into orbit for the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2). In this almost nine minute time exposure, the arc of the rocket into orbit gives way over seven minutes later to the entry burns of the twin boosters seen at top as two parallel lines. Then the boosters fall before starting their engines again, seen as the two […]

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Department of Defense, DoD, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Test Program, SpaceX, STP-2

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Starlink

2019/05/24 by terranovabay

The first 60 of what is planned to be thousands of Starlink satellites launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:30 p.m. on 23 May 2019. When the network is operational, these satellites will provide global broadband access. Click to view the Starlink launch gallery.

Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Launch Complex 40, LC 40, SpaceX, Starlink

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Remembering SES-8

2019/05/22 by terranovabay

Replaying another old video, this time the launch of SES-8 back in December 2013 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which featured good lighting on the booster and fairing separations allowing for an animation to be made from the photographs showing these objects in flight. Click to view the SES-8 launch gallery.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: 45th Space Wing, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Rocket launch, SES 8, SLC 40, SpaceX

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Another Starlink Delay

2019/05/17 by terranovabay

SpaceX decided just a few hours before the scheduled liftoff time on 16 May 2019 to delay the launch of the 60 Starlink satellites loaded atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The stated reason is to upgrade the software on the satellites. In this time exposure image from the first scrub the night before, spotlights at the launch pad on the horizon paint a “V” in the sky, the focus point […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Falcon 9, Internet, Launch Complex 40, LC 40, SpaceX, Starlink

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Those pesky upper level winds!

2019/05/16 by terranovabay

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with 60 (!) Starlink satellites dejectedly vents gaseous oxygen while on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after upper level winds refused to cooperate on 15 May 2019. The winds aloft were blowing at a speed to high for the rocket to handle safely so a last minute decision was made to keep the rocket on the ground for another day at least in the hope the winds will die down. […]

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Falcon 9, Internet, Launch Complex 40, LC 40, SpaceX, Starlink

CRS-17 booster in Port Canaveral

2019/05/05 by terranovabay

The CRS-17 Falcon 9 booster, still atop the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, is being prepared to be lifted off by crane and onto shore on 5 May 2017. The booster and droneship arrived back in Port late in the afternoon on 4 May from its position just offshore for the booster landing. Click to view more images.

Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: CRS-17, droneship, Falcon 9, Of Course I Still Love You, Port Canaveral, SpaceX

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Range Tracking

Photography by Bob Montanaro

Tag: SpaceX

AMOS-17

CRS-18

CRS-18 Weather Delay

Fiery Tail of STP-2

STP-2

Starlink

Remembering SES-8

Another Starlink Delay

Those pesky upper level winds!

CRS-17 booster in Port Canaveral

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