SpaceX launched the Amazonas Nexus satellite tonight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The payload is owned by the Spanish company Hispasat. Amazonus Nexus will connect trans-Atlantic airline passengers, maritime traffic, and rural communities across the Americas.
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.
SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites this morning from Cape Canaveral, closing out the 2022 launch schedule for Florida. It was yet another picture-perfect launch.
Skies were clear enough this morning to where we could see the second stage for six-ish minutes. There’s a small gap between the end of the first stage’s powered ascent and the ignition of the second stage. My aim in this photo was to capture as much as possible of the second stage, and it succeeded from that perspective.
I’ve been rather busy of late, mostly on my professional side. Some fun projects, a hurricane, some travel and so forth…and as a result I haven’t posted much to this blog lately.
That said, I have been busy taking photographs. Here’s a gallery of the launch photos:
United Launch Alliance’s fifth mission of the year lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 6:29 a.m. EDT (1029 GMT) Thursday. An Atlas V 421 carrying a US Space Force missile warning satellite into orbit.
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.
SpaceX launched fifty-nine small satellites along with experiments on Wednesday, May 25, 2002 at 2:35 p.m. EDT (1835 GMT) from Cape Canaveral using a Falcon 9 rocket. After staging, the Falcon booster returned to Cape Canaveral Space Station and landing about eight-and-a-half minutes later.
On Saturday, May 14 at 4:40 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched Starlink satellites to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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