Tag: liftoff

ESA / Decollage champ large, le 28-04-2021 Liftoff of Vega from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana came at 02:50 BST on 29 April (03:50 CEST; 22:50 local time on 28 April) to deliver Pléiades Neo-3 and five auxiliary payloads into their respective orbits. On this flight, Vega made use of part of its ESA-developed Small Read More

23/04/2021 1330 views 32 likes 455519 ID 00:04:13 Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide. The Crew-2 spend around 24 hours travelling to the International Space Station. The rocket lifted off at 11:49 on 23 Read More

The SpaceX Crew Dragon is launched on a Falcon 9 rocket and brings four astronauts to the International Space Station. Launching from Cape Canaveral at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, the spacecraft is the third type to bring ESA astronauts to space. This infographic shows the steps after liftoff until the Crew Dragon Read More

…on Sunday, January 24th at 10:00 AM EST after light rain had passed over launch complex 40 about one hour earlier. It was a beautiful launch in and out of the clouds as the lighting became better every second into launch. The 73rd Falcon booster landing occurred on the autonomous drone ship OCISLY Of Course Read More

On a 52 degree Fahrenheit space coast morning SpaceX Starlink Falcon 9 Starlink V1.0 #16 was poised for liftoff as the skies changed from red to orange and finally blue just after dawn at 8:02 AM EST or 13:02 UTC Cape Canaveral Florida on January20th 2021. First stage booster B-1051.8 flew and re-landed foe the Read More

July 29, 2020 NASA's Mars Rover is ready to liftoff from United Launch Alliance LC-41 tomorrow morning for a mid February 2021 landing on the red planet in Jezero crater. photo copyright Scott Schilke AutoMobilSport.com The main goal is to determine if there was extinct life or microbiological life on Mars in this ancient river Read More