Rather than just capturing yet another streak shot of a night launch, I recorded video of it from the Bennett Causeway off of FL-528 in Cape Canaveral. Turns out video is hard and I have a lot to learn. That’s okay, it’s fun to learn and improve.
SpaceX Falcon9 lifted off at half midnight tonight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying Intelsat 40e to orbit.
I was due East of it, and perfectly aligned with the launch azimuth.
Shortly before noon SpaceX lofted another batch of Starlink satellites to Earth-orbit today. The launch was from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Startup Relativity Space conducted their first launch as a company from LC-16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 23, 2023.
The boost phase was successful, they had successful staging, but problems with the second stage prevented the company from achieving orbit on its first try. No matter, they successfully launched, proved that additive manufacturing (3-D printing) can withstand the dynamics and pressures of flight and also proved that their new methane-fueled engines for the first stage of their rocket performed to spec.
Here is a long exposure of the rocket’s flight, as seen from the Launch Viewing area at Sands Space History Museum in Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX launched two satellites for SES tonight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
This is what I see when I am photographing a rocket launch. This view is pretty much the same as the naked eye look. I was busy photographing stills, so the camera is static and doesn’t follow the rocket.
SpaceX launched forty satellites for OneWeb, a global Internet connectivity firm. It was the 13th launch for Booster-1062, and the first time the venerable rocket stage returned to its launch site rather than landing at sea on one of SpaceX’s automated barges.
SpaceX launched 21 of its second-generation Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 on February 27, 2023.
Falcon 9 carried dual-band, six-ton mobile communications relay station Inmarsat I-6 F2 to orbit for Inmarsat, a British company.
The launch was at 10:59pm local time at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s SLC-40 complex. It was a cloudy, muggy evening as a cold front approached, but the weather was deemed good enough for the successful launch.
Unfortunately, due to some bad luck and lack of a backup plan, these photos were taken through the trees on the banks of the Indian River. The low cloud deck made the show a very brief one after liftoff, though from time to time the rocket glared through a gap in the clouds.
SpaceX launched another 54 Starlink satellites to orbit this morning as they continue to build out their constellation to provide ubiquitous Internet connectivity anywhere in the world.
The launch represented the fastest turnaround and launch from a single launch pad — five days — and is their tenth launch of 2023.
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