For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Sunday Jan. 24 was a day of non-stop exhilarating action at Florida’s Space Coast that began with the successful inaugural Transporter-1 SmallSat mission launch at 10 a.m. from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and culminated six hours later as the record setting 1st SpaceX Falcon 9 1st stage to fly eight
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – A recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 soared to orbit Sunday morning with a record setting number of small satellites in a single flight on their first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission dubbed Transoorter-1, also flying on a rare southern trajectory from Florida’s Spaceport. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-1
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Dismal weather forced SpaceX to scrub this mornings Falcon 9 launch attempt of Transporter-1, their first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission in the final minutes of the countdown on Jan. 23 loaded with a record setting number of 143 satellites of all shapes and sizes on the firms third
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – SpaceX is now targeting liftoff of their first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission on Saturday morning, Jan. 23 with a record setting number of 133 nano and micro satellites as well as another 10 Starlinks on the firms third rocket liftoff of 2021 on a 5x recycled Falcon 9
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – SpaceX launched the latest batch of 60 Starlink broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit on an stunningly beautiful Wednesday morning, Jan. 20, from Florida’s Space Coast and carried to space aboard the 1st ever Falcon 9 recycled for a record setting 8th blastoff. Moreover the breakfast time launch was on
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA conducted the long awaited and absolutely critical Green Run hot fire test of all four engines on the core stage for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket in Mississippi on Saturday, Jan. 16 but the test ended early when the engines shut down only about 1 minute into the planned
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – The view from Mars on Sol 3000 – simply spectacular !!! As she snapped a dramatic new self portrait backdropped by alien scenery from the Red Planet NASA’s groundbreaking Curiosity rover is celebrating 3000 Sols, or Martian days, of exploration on the Red Planet since she touched down on Mars on Aug. 6,
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and Boeing managers announced they are targeting Saturday, Jan. 16 to carry out the long awaited and absolutely critical ‘Green Run’ hot fire test of the agency’s mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) core stage quartet of engines at the base of the mighty Moon rocket at the agency’s Stennis Space Center
Ken Kremer – For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Following a five week long stay and a days long delay due to poor recovery weather the first of the next generation commercial SpaceX Cargo Dragon supply ships successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday, Jan, 12, and is on course to the targeted splashdown zone west of Tampa,
“Planet Play” is the newly opened interactive multi-story play and learning experience about space, astronomy and science for the new generation of space exploring kids at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida! ‘Planet Play’ official Grand Opening Jan. 4, 2021. Credit: Jean Wright/spaceupclose.com For SpaceUpClose.com KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL – What kid hasn’t dreamed of going