Our Space Coast embedded videographer Paula Frost was active again, catching the launch of a Falcon 9 from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with the SiriusXM-9 satellite to a Geo-Transfer Orbit (GTO) on December 5, 2024. The neighbor should take care of his trees; some are done.
SpaceX launch of Starship Testflight 6 on November 19, 2024
SpaceX Falcon 9 Lift-Off OPTUS-X/TD7 - filmed by Paula Frost - November 17, 2024
What about life on the US Space Coast?
It could happen, that you see a bunch of rockets which are leaving the ground, like this here on Sunday, November 17.
Our space-coast-embedded videographer Paula Frost visited the pier to catch the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of OPTUS-X/TD7 from LC-39A of the Kennedy Space Center, Florida and could frame it until MECO (Main Engine Cut-Off). Nice!
Our embedded Space Coast Videographer Paula Frost was on duty; here is the launch of Starlink 8-19 on October 18, 2024
The launch of Starship's Testflight 5 on October 30.
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - ESA HERA - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - October 7, 2024
Launch Date: October 7
Launch Time: 10:52 a.m. EDT, 1452 UTC, 16:52 CEST
Launch Window: 10:52 a.m. EDT
Launch Site: SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA
Targeted Orbit: Heliocentric
Launch Inclination: East
Launch Status: Lift-Off Successful
Mission: ESA HERA
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Customer: ESA
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster B1061)
Flight for the Booster: 23
Previous Flights of the Booster: 22 - Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar FM15, ISI EROS C-3, Korea 425, Maxar 1, ASBM, and 10 Starlink missions
First Stage Landing: No landing, 1st stage is expandable
Price: $69,75 million (without payload)
Diameter: 3,7 m
Height: 70 meter
Payload to Orbit: 22,800 LEO / 8,300 GTO
Lift-Off Thrust: 7,607 Kilonnewtons
Fairing: Diameter 5,2 meter / Height 13 meter
Stages: 2
SpaceX is targeting Monday, October 7 for Falcon 9’s launch of the ESA Hera mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 10:52 a.m. EDT, 1452 UTC, 16:52 CEST. If needed, a backup launch opportunity is available on Tuesday, October 8 at 10:46 a.m. EDT.
Due to the additional performance required to deliver the payload to an interplanetary transfer orbit, this mission marks the 23rd and final launch for this Falcon 9 first-stage booster, which previously launched Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar FM15, ISI EROS C-3, Korea 425, Maxar 1, ASBM, and 10 Starlink missions.
Hera is a spacecraft the European Space Agency developed for its Space Safety program. Its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system impacted by DART and validate the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth. It will measure the size and the morphology of the crater created and momentum transferred by an artificial projectile impacting an asteroid, which w
SCRUBBED - Blue Origin - New Shepard - NS-27 - Launch Site One, Texas - October 7, 2024
The launch was scrubbed due a technical issue.
A new launch date will be released.
Blue Origin Debuts Second Human-Rated New Shepard Rocket To Meet Demand
Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight, NS-27, will debut our second human-rated vehicle, enabling expanded flight capacity to meet growing customer demand better.
The launch window for the uncrewed verification flight opens on Monday, October 7, at 8:00 AM CDT / 1300 UTC / 15:00 CEST.
The new crew capsule is named RSS Kármán line. The vehicle features technology upgrades to improve its performance and reusability, an updated livery, and accommodations for payloads on the booster.
New Shepard remains one of the most sustainable rockets ever to fly to space. Nearly 99% of New Shepard’s dry mass, including the booster, capsule, engine, landing gear, and parachutes, is reused. NS-27 will fly 12 payloads—five on the booster and seven inside the crew capsule.
Payloads include new navigation systems developed for New Shepard and New Glenn; two different LIDAR sensors for the Lunar Permanence program; ultra-wideband proximity operations sensors flying as part of a NASA TechFlights grant with Blue Origin’s Space Systems Development group; and a commercial payload that is a reproduction of black monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The monoliths are flying on behalf of Spacemanic for a special edition printed by Croatian publisher Amaranthine Books.
The mission will also carry tens of thousands of student-designed postcards on behalf of Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s STEAM-focused nonprofit. The organization's mission is to inspire and mobilize future generations to pursue science, technology, engineering, arts, and math careers. Since its founding in 2019, the organization has engaged more than 43 million students globally.
Our embedded Space Coast videographer Paula Frost had difficulty catching the launch of ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket this morning, but the light conditions were good. The plan was 6:00 a.m. EDT, but it finally lifted off at 7:25 a.m. EDT, so short after sunrise.
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-9 - Hatch Opening & Welcome onboard the ISS - September 29, 2024
Hatch opening and welcome onboard the ISS for the SpaceX Crew-9.
Hatch opening is scheduled for September 29, 7:15 p.m. EDT, 2315 UTC (September 30, 01:15 CEST) with welcoming remarks with the ISS Expedition 72 crew scheduled for 7:40 pm. EDT, 2340 UTC (September 30, 01:40 CEST).
The event will hosted by the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
SpaceX/NASA - SpaceX Crew-9 - Rendezvous & Docking ISS - September 29, 2024
Live stream of the rendezvous and docking of SpaceX Crew-9 at the International Space Station ISS.
The docking schedule is related to the launch of SpaceX Crew 9, now NET (not earlier than) September 28, 1:17 p.m. EDT, 1717 UTC, 19:17 CEST from SLC-40 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The docking is scheduled for September 29, 5:30 p.m. EDT, 2130 UTC and 23:30 CEST.
The original assigned crew comprised Commander Zena Cardman (NASA - 1st spaceflight), Pilot Nick Hague (NASA - 2nd spaceflight), Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson (NASA - 4th spaceflight), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexandr Gorbunov (1st spaceflight) initially.
Due to the anomalies of the thrusters of the service module of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft during the CTF mission with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, NASA decided after weeks that the crew of SpaceX Crew 9 had been reduced to two crew members to make seats available for the crew of the Starliner who will remain onboard the ISS. They will fly back with the SpaceX Crew 9 in February 2025.
NASA astronaut Nick Haque will command Space X Crew-9, and Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov will act as Mission Specialist. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, previously announced as crewmates, are eligible for reassignment on a future mission.
The decision to fly Hague was made by NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Acaba had to balance flying a NASA crew member with previous spaceflight experience to command the flight, while ensuring NASA maintains an integrated crew with a Roscosmos cosmonaut who can operate their critical systems for continued, safe station operations.
With 203 days logged in space, this will be Hague’s second mission to the orbiting laboratory. During his first launch in March 2018, Hague and his crewmate, Roscosmos’ Alexey Ovchinin, experienced a rocket booster failure, resulting in an in-flight, post-laun
SpaceX/NASA - Falcon 9 - SpaceX Crew-9 - SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - September 28, 2024
Launch Date: September 28, 2024
Launch Time: 1:17 p.m. EDT, 1717 UTC, 19:17 CEST
Launch Window: 1:17 p.m. EDT
Launch Status: SpaceX Crew-9 lifted off successfully
Launch Target: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) - International Space Station ISS
Mission: SpaceX Crew-9 to the ISS
Launch Contractor: NASA
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 Block 5 (Booster B1085)
Flight for the Booster: 2
Previous flights of the booster: 1 - Starlink 10-5, August 20.
Launch Vehicles: Dragon-2 "Freedom" (C212)
Launch Location: Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Launch Trajectory: Northeast
Booster Landing: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Dragon Splashdown: Not earlier than February/March 2025, planned on the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting Saturday, Sept. 28, to launch the agency’s Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. Lift-off is scheduled for 1:17 p.m. EDT, 1717 UTC, 19:17 CEST from Launch Complex 39A of the Kennedy Space Center.
SpaceX Crew-9 is a Crew-Dragon spacecraft's ninth operational crewed rotation mission to the International Space Station ISS.
The original assigned crew comprised Commander Zena Cardman (NASA - 1st spaceflight), Pilot Nick Hague (NASA - 2nd spaceflight), Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson (NASA - 4th spaceflight), and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexandr Gorbunov (1st spaceflight) initially.
Due to the anomalies of the thrusters of the service module of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft during the CTF mission with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, NASA decided after weeks that the crew of SpaceX Crew 9 had been reduced to two crew members to make seats available for the crew of the Starliner who will remain onboard the ISS. They will fly back with the SpaceX Crew 9 in February 2025.
NASA astronaut Nick Haque will command Space X Crew-9, and Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov will act as Missi
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 9-8 - SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base - September 24, 2024
Launch Date: September 24 PDT
Launch Time: 9:01 p.m. PDT - September 25, 0401 UTC, 06:01 CEST
Launch Window: open til 9:59 p.m. PDT
Launch Site: SLC-4E - Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA
Targeted Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Inclination: South-East
Launch Status: Successful Lift-Off and Landing
Droneship: Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY)
Mission: Starlink Group 9-8
Launch Provider: SpaceX
Launcher System: Falcon 9 (Booster 1081)
Flight for the Booster: 10
Previous Flights of the Booster: 9 - NASA Crew-7, CRS-29, NROL-186, EarthCARE, Transporter-10, PACE, and three Starlink missions
Price: $69,75 million (without payload)
Diameter: 3,7 m
Height: 70 m
Payload to Orbit: 22,800 LEO / 8,300 GTO
Lift-Off Thrust: 7,607 Kilonnewtons
Fairing: Diameter 5,2 meter / Height 13 meter
Stages: 2
SpaceX targets September 24 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Lift-Off is scheduled for 9:01 p.m. PDT - September 25 0401 UTC, 06:01 CEST. If needed, an additional opportunity is also available on Wednesday, September 25 at 8:37 p.m. PT.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
Flight trajectory will be southeast, along the coast of California. You will find more information about the trajectory and data on the day of the launch here: https://flightclub.io/live
