SATELLITE BEACH, FL – On Aug. 17, I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about SpaceX rapid launch cadence including two launches this past Sat Aug 15 with bicoastal liftoffs of their Falcon 9 rocket just 38.5 minutes apart from the Florida Space Coast and California. Also the launch and landing on Aug 15 at pad 40 on Cape Canaveral
JETTY PARK BEACH/PORT CANAVERAL, FL – SpaceX achieved a record setting launch of two Falcon 9 rockets just 38.5 minutes apart on Saturday night, Aug. 15 with a pair of bicoastal orbital deliveries for Globalstar and the US Space Force from company launch pads in Florida and California. The record setting launch cadence began with a stunning Saturday evening launch
JETTY PARK BEACH/PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Spectators were treated to a beautiful pre-sunset blastoff Friday later afternoon, Jan. 9, when SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at last after several hours of delays on another Starlink mission as it soared over Jetty Park beach and pier populated by many beachgoers frolicking in the Atlantic ocean waves and as multiple cruise
JETTY PARK & PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The Blue Origin New Glenn-2 first stage booster that accomplished a history making launch and landing last week Nov. 13 returned triumphantly to Port Canaveral in tow atop the company Jacklyn droneship early Tuesday morning, Nov. 18, less than 5 days after liftoff – and with billionaire founder Jeff Bezos on deck beaming
JETTY PARK, FL – After multiple delays due to both Earth and Space Weather the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launched for only its second launch and achieved a history making landing of the reusable first stage on a droneship waiting at sea – while accomplishing its primary goal of hurling NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM JETTY PARK/PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The 3rd time was finally the charm and Relativity Space finally achieved their dreams and launched their Terran-1 rocket to space on the first ever flight of a 3D printed rocket, late Wednesday evening, Mar. 22, from Florida’s Spaceport as the first stage performed well and survived the withering aerodynamic stresses
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM JETTY PARK/PORT CANAVERAL, FL – Relativity Space, a California-based New Space startup aborted the first launch attempt of their first 3D printed Terran 1 rocket Wednesday afternoon, March 8, about 1 minute before liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast – after a thermal control technical issue with Liquid Oxygen (LOX) propellant in the second stage could not
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – California-based Relativity Space, a New Space startup, is targeting Wednesday afternoon, March 8, for launch of the world’s first almost entirely 3D printed rocket – namely the maiden Terran 1 from Florida’s Space Coast. The weather looks to be outstanding Liftoff of Terran 1 is targeted for a 3 hour long launch window that opens at
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM JETTY PARK BEACH, FL – Spectacularly sunny Space Coast skies greeted SpaceX on their (and the Capes) 1st launch of 2023, Tuesday morning, Jan. 3, on the Transporter-6 mission as part of the firms commercial rideshare program – carrying over 100 smallsats and cubesats to low earth orbit (LEO) on a veteran Falcon 9 booster now
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PORT CANAVERAL, FL – New Year’s Eve rocket revelers celebrated early as the last launched and landed SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster of 2022 from Cape Canaveral returned triumphantly to Port Canaveral at noonish, Saturday, Dec 31, New Year’s Eve – just over three days after the stunning dead of night liftoff Wednesday, Dec. 28.