PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The scorched and blackened veteran 1st stage Falcon 9 booster [B1085.17] used in the SpaceX SiriusXM SXM mission successfully launched on June 28 has arrived safely back in Port Canaveral, FL – just in time to celebrate our nations looming 250th Birthday! We saw the booster on the afternoon of July 1 after it pulled into
SPACE VIEW PARK, TITUSVILLE, FL – We watched an “absolutely beautiful” night launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 hurling the 7.5 ton SiriusXM SXM-11 radio-broadcasting satellite mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit on Sunday night, June 28, from Space View Park in Titusville, FL along the Indian River lagoon into nearly cloud free and moonlit skies above. Space View Park was
PORT CANAVERAL, FL – The scorched and blackened veteran 1st stage Falcon 9 booster B1078.29 used in the secretive SpaceX Starfall Demo mission successfully launched on June 23 has arrived safely back in Port Canaveral, FL I saw the booster on the afternoon of June 29 a few days after it arrived on June 25 and was pulled into Port
SPACE VIEW PARK, TITUSVILLE, FL- I watched the launch of the secretive SpaceX Starfall reentry capsule demonstration mission early Tuesday morning, June 23, from Space View Park in Titusville, FL along the Indian River lagoon. Starfall was the first flight of new SpaceX reentry technology – testing a new hockey puck shaped reentry capsule dish that can return up to
PORT CANAVERAL/TITUSVILLE, FL- Two days after a beautiful sunrise blastoff that caused the formation of an undulating space jellyfish high in the skies over the Florida Space Coast, the veteran and scorched first stage that propelled that Starlink mission to orbit on May 21, has arrived back into Port Canaveral See our photos taken on May 23 across from the
TITUSVILLE, FL – A spectacular SpaceX Jellyfish formed high in the skies over the Space Coast soon after the launch of another batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites just before sunrise on Thursday, May 21. Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-31 mission took place at 6:04 a.m. ET (1004 UTC) on May 21 from Space Launch
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After two weather scrubs earlier this week, the 3rd time finally proved to be the charm at last! With a gorgeous picture perfect launch for the 34th NASA SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) thundered off the launch pad Friday evening May 15 carrying 6500 lbs hardware, science experiments & supplies to
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After a two-day delay when last minute poor weather intervened to scrub liftoff, spectators were thrilled to watch the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy to sail skyward in over a year and a half from Florida’s Space Coast to deliver a massive next generation commercial communications satellite to orbit for Viasat. Liftoff of the 12th SpaceX
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – We were all excited for the potential of a rare, combined SpaceX and ULA launch double header on Florida’s Space Coast on Monday, April 27 – until poor weather intervened and scrubbed the liftoff of the first of the day namely the Falcon Heavy Monday morning as rain, winds and thunder rolled into the Kennedy
TITUSVILLE, FL – Early risers lucky enough to gaze skyward witnessed a dazzling ‘Space Jellyfish’ illuminating the pre-dawn skies with stunning pastel colors flowing overhead following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida’s Space Coast. Following liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 at 5:52 a.m. ET on March 4, on the Starlink 10-40 mission