Tag: Space UpClose

Ken Kremer Interview WFTV ABC News Orlando: NASA Readies Wide-Field View Roman Space Telescope for Launch

TITUSVILLE, FL – On July 10 I was interviewed on WFTV ABC News Orlando about NASA’s preparations to ready the agency’s new Wide-Field-View Roman Space Telescope for launch NET Aug 30 and about its science capabilities compared to the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman

Ken Kremer Interview WESH NBC & Fox 35 Orlando – Rescue Mission Launched to Save Falling NASA Swift Space Telescope: Video

TITUSVILLE, FL – On July 3, I was interviewed on two TV networks on FOX 35 Orlando and WESH NBC News Orlando about the successful launch of NASAs first-of-its-kind satellite robotic servicing rescue mission to save NASAs $500 million Swift space telescope which is quickly falling from orbit. See story & video links below Its High Risk, High Reward and

Magnificent Midnight Launch for Last of Mightiest ULA Atlas V Rocket – Delivers Amazon Broadband Internet Leo 8 Mission to LEO: Photos

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL –  The final launch for the mightiest  version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket nicknamed ‘The Bruiser’ – went off without a hitch from Florida’s Space Coast just past midnight early Thursday morning July 2 carrying another batch of satellites for Amazons Leo operational broadband constellation of commercial internet comsats to

Last Launch Looming for Most Powerful ULA Atlas V Rocket Configuration Nicknamed ‘The Bruiser’ on Leo 8 Mission: Pad Photos

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL –  The last launch is looming for the most powerful version of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket nicknamed ‘The Bruiser’ – as it sits poised for liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast just past midnight early Thursday morning July 2 carrying another batch of satellites for Amazons Leo operational broadband constellation of

SpaceX Sirius SXM-11 Falcon 9 Booster Sails Back into Port Canaveral after 17th Launch & Landing, Celebrating US 250th Birthday: Photos

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

‘Absolutely Beautiful’ Night Launch as Sirius SXM-11 Streaks to GEO on SpaceX Falcon 9: Photos

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

Secretive SpaceX Starfall Reentry Capsule Demo Mission Sunrise Launch and ABC Orlando Interview: Photos

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

NASA’s Next Generation Roman Space Telescope Arrives in Florida on Fathers Day Ahead of Launch NET Aug. 30: Photos

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s newest space observatory, the next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived on Fathers Day, June 21, at the Turn Basin wharf at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cocooned safely inside NASA’s Pegasus barge. Appropriately, Roman was boxed up for transport inside the CHARIOT  or Conditioned Housing for Air, Road and Imaging optics