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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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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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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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
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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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A time exposure shows the launch, at left, of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking a Dragon spacecraft loaded with supplies to the International Space Station at 2:48 a.m. on 4 May 2019 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The streaks at right are, at top, the first stage booster performing the entry burn, then a gap as the booster free falls, until starting its engines again, at lower right, to gently land on the […]
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Commercial Resupply Services, CRS-17, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, Launch Complex 40, NASA, OCISLY, Of Course I Still Love You, SLC 40, SpaceX
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched Arabsat-6A into orbit at 6:35 p.m. on 11 April 2019 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Click to view my gallery of selected images from the launch.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Arabsat-6A, Falcon Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX
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The Crew Dragon Demo-1 spacecraft that recently returned from the International Space Station after flying an automatic test flight there and back returns to Port Canaveral aboard the Go Searcher recovery ship on 9 March 2019. The Demo-1 spacecraft had parachuted to a landing in the Atlantic Ocean the day before. The arrival back at Port was the beginning of a late night operation to get the spacecraft off the ship and back to its hanger for study. A successful […]
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Crew Dragon, Demo-1, Go Navigator, Go Searcher, Port Canaveral, SpaceX
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SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon Demo-1 mission at 2:49 a.m. on 2 March 2019 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Click for more information and to view the launch gallery.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Commercial Crew Program, Crew Dragon, Demo-1, Falcon 9, International Space Station, ISS, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, LC-39A, NASA, SpaceX
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A communications satellite for Indonesia lifts off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying two other payloads, an Israeli lunar lander and a technology demonstration satellite for the U.S. military. Launch occurred at 8:45 p.m on 21 February 2019 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Click to view the launch gallery.
Categories: Rocket Launch • Tags: Beresheet, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, Indonesia, Israel, Nusantara Satu, S5, SLC 40, SpaceX
