In its sixth mission for July and it’s thirty-third mission of the year, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink this morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida occurred at 9:38 a.m. EDT (1338 GMT).
This was the eight flight of booster B1062.
Fifty-three years ago today, I saw Apollo 11 as she lifted off from Cape Kennedy and on her way to the moon.
The day was typical Florida morning coastal weather: hot, humid, with a bit of a sea breeze to only slightly temper the sun that bore its way through the sky and onto sizzling skin. The crowd around me flapped whatever papers or fans they had as they waited nervously for the launch, whose time was marked by a huge clock counting backwards.
My mother and I had been at Cape Kennedy since long before dawn, and we were seated among VIPs that included the vice president, movie stars, politicians and the well-to-do that NASA thought important. I was not important, I was just a lucky kid.
SpaceX launch its 25th resupply mission to the International Space Station Thursday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida about a Falcon 9 booster.
On Thursday, July 7 at 9:11 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
After a scrubbed launch the day due to thunderstorms before, and one delayed this by a persistent storms, winds and a single anvil cloud directly over the launch pad, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT), carrying two experimental satellites for the U.S. Space Force. Here’s a short sequence of the launch sequence that I made.
This video was made from the LC-39 gantry at Kennedy Space Center. At only 2.3 miles from the launch pad itself, the Gantry offers the best views of a launch that the public can get access to, and the sound from the rocket there is tremendously loud — all in all, it’s an exciting place to be for a rocket launch. This is a very representative view of what ticket holders there see with their own eyes.
I recommend clicking through and watching full-screen in YouTube in 4K or HD.
After a scrubbed launch yesterday and one delayed today by a persistent anvil cloud, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canveral at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT), carrying two experimental satellites for the U.S. Space Force.
While waiting out a long hold due to lazy thunderstorms that were lingering too close to SLC-41 to safely launch United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V set to carry the US Space Force’s payload designated as USSF-12, I grabbed a few interesting shots from the nearby launch pads.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 at at 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 GMT) on June 29, 2022. The payload was a television broadcasting satellite Wednesday for SES. The Falcon 9 booster landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
A lot of friends, family and people I have met on the Internet often ask me for advice on what sort of camera they should buy so they can take “good pictures.”
It’s a complicated question, and the best answer is to start by examining your goals as a photographer as well as the budget you’ll be working with. Someone who is going to travel a lot and take casual photos of their experiences along the way will have different needs than someone who wants to shoot wildlife or rocket launches. On the other hand, portrait photographers have different needs than serious landscape shooters. All of us have a certain amount of money we can devote to a camera, lens(es) and accessories like a good flash.
Some gear is better suited for video, while other cameras are best at stills. For example, I’d never take a GoPro to a fashion shoot, but I would wouldn’t take a medium format studio camera whitewater rafting either. Fortunately, there are cameras that do both things pretty well and these days there’s a lot of choices out there.
Professional photographers obviously have very different needs and standards than someone who’s a casual amateur or even a dedicated hobbyist. With that in mind, I think there are three classes of photography equipment: amateur, prosumer and professional, with costs going upwards with each step. This article is geared towards the amateur and lower-level prosumer.
I’m going to assume here that you want more than a pocket camera with roughly the same specs as a flagship cellphone — they take decent photos, but will never compare to the capabilities of a high-end DSLR or mirrorless camera no matter what the cellphone makers tell you.
Per Spaceflight Now:
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