In the wee hours, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 carried Starlink 5-2 above the clouds behind a boat sitting anchored on the Banana River
Light showers were around the Cape this morning with a low cloud deck — this rocket more or less disappeared after about 15-20 seconds.
Photo was taken at the Banana Creek bridge on FL 528 near Port Canaveral.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 15, 2023 at 5:56 p.m. EST (2255 GMT). The rocket was carrying a classified U.S. Space Force communications satellite and five additional military payloads as a rideshare. The Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters returned to land at SpaceX’s landing zones a few miles away at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about eight minutes after launch.
On a cool night with fog and a slight scent of nearby prescribed forest burns mixed together into a thin layer of smog on many Space Coast waterways, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ten minutes before midnight on January 10th, 2023.
The commercial payload launch carried forty satellites for OneWeb for their commercial Internet service, nudging the company’s network closer to full operational capability. Eight minutes later, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster returned to Cape Canaveral for landing a few miles away from the launch site.
I’ve been playing around with making videos the past year or so, mainly as an aside to creating still photographs of launches around the Cape.
Honestly, results have been mixed: video requires a somewhat different skillset, even when you are using the same equipment, and it certainly requires your full attention to great anything close to what I’d label as “good.” As far as skills go, I am improving, but have a ways to go. I personally hate the sound of my own voice on a recording, but I need to get over that and start narrating my videos, and I also probably need to put myself on video as well to personalize the experience. I plan to do that with my next video and from there out.
Anyways, here’s my latest attempt at recording the event of a space launch from the viewpoint of being a visitor. I had tickets to the LC-39 gantry, which is the closest place the general public can get to a launch from SpaceX’s SLC-40 complex, and I made video from the gate to Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center onward.
Here’s a list of where the stages and major components of the remaining Saturn V’s leftover after Projects Apollo and Skylab are located:
Apollo was originally intended to have twenty missions, but was ended after seventeen by the Nixon Administration.
Note: the provenance of the chart it unknown, but has been verified for accuracy.
On a hazy, warm morning, SpaceX got right back to work after the holidays by sending Falcon9 towards a southerly polar orbit from Cape Canaveral. This was the view looking southwards and into bright sunlight. Here are photos and a link to a video of the launch:
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