For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – A magnificent middle of the night launch on a veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered the next batch of high speed broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit early Thursday, Feb. 2 – soaring once again on a southeasterly trajectory from historic launch pad 39A on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This launch
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM MARDI GRAS CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIP, ATLANTIC OCEAN –SpaceX launched its heaviest payload ever on a Falcon 9 rocket during a dead-of-night liftoff at 4:32 a.m. ET early Thursday, Jan. 26, carrying another batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit from Florida’s Space Coast on a southeasterly trajectory – and which we witnessed for
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.
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – SpaceX successfully launched its last batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites of 2022 from Cape Canaveral to orbit into mostly clear overnight Sunshine State skies on a southeasterly trajectory, in the dead of night Wednesday, Dec. 28. This liftoff on the Starlink 5-1 mission also counts as the first tranche of Starlinks propelled to
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM SPACE VIEW PARK/TITUSVILLE, FL – SpaceX successfully launched its fleet leading Falcon 9 for a record breaking 15th time Saturday afternoon, Dec. 17, carrying the next tranche of Starlink broadband internet satellites to orbit from Florida’s Space Coast into heavily overcast Sunshine State skies The heavy payload of 54 Starlink satellites on the 4-37 mission blasted
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM PLAYALINDA BEACH/CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE, FL – SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites to orbit on a cool Thursday morning, Oct. 20, from Cape Canaveral into heavily overcast Sunshine State skies on a veteran 10x flown Falcon 9 booster. The heavy payload of 54 Starlink satellites on the 4-36 mission blasted off on
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM TITUSVILLE, FL – Following five consecutive weather scrubs since Tuesday, Sept. 13, the heavens miraculously cleared just enough despite another poor forecast and SpaceX at last launched a veteran Falcon 9 rocket on the sixth try just past sunset Sunday evening, Sept. 18, on a mission carrying another batch of Starlink internet satellites to low Earth
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – In a stunning space achievement SpaceX launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 first stage for a record-breaking 13th time for the first time ever at noontime Friday, June 17 from the Kennedy Space Center – on the occasion of another Starlink internet satellite launch. While crowning and establishing a new
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered the next batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites to LEO from NSA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida during a beautiful predawn launch Friday, May 6. As witnessed from our viewing location at the KSC Press site the Falcon 9 quickly disappeared in less
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – SpaceX successfully re-launched a recycled Falcon 9 first stage booster in a record setting turnaround time of just 21 days at dinnertime Friday evening, April 29 carrying the next batch of Starlink internet satellites to LEO from Florida’s Space Coast into virtually clear blue skies but with hefty ground