JETTY PARK/PORT CANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – Accompanied by very choppy seas a rather magnificent looking New Glenn droneship recovered 1st stage arrived back at Port Canaveral channel around 1 p.m. ET on April 22 – sailing by hordes of spectators eager to witness this 1st ever 2x launched & landed 1st stage booster from the Blue Origin
TITUSVILLE/JETTY PARK/PORT CANAVERAL/CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about two vastly important space topics on April 20 that impacts NASA, the military and commercial space launches.. First, NASAs rollout of the Artemis III core stage from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans that’s being shipped on NASAs Pegasus
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 JETTY PARK BEACH, FL – An Astra launch failure resulted in the loss and destruction of the first pair of NASA TROPICS hurricane research cubesat satellites Sunday afternoon, June 12, after the premature shutdown of the upper stage about seven minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. After delays due to a wayward boat and to confirm