At 1:50am (ET), #SpaceX successfully launched the #Telstar19V satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station / 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.. The first stage of the #Block5 rocket would later successfully land on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. This is a composite of 33 minutes of star trails shot just before the launch, and then the last frame is the launch streak as seen from the media area on the ITL Causeway. It was really a thunderous launch, with people as far south as Melbourne (35+ miles away) reporting that their doors were rattling. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team! Details: 66 images at ISO500, f4 and 30-seconds for the stars and then the launch streak was ISO100, f20 and 196-seconds. (Photo: me aka Michael Seeley / We Report Space)
At 1:18am (ET) on Tuesday, August 7, #SpaceX successfully launched the #Telkom4 #MerahPutih satellite atop a previously flown #Block5 #Falcon9 rocket. This was the first reuse of a Block5, the rocket that is designed to be reused many times.
At 12:45 am on September 10, 2018, SpaceX successfully launched the Telstar18 Vantage satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket launched from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and approximately 8 minutes later, the first stage of the rocket successfully landed atop a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Seen here is a 5-minute exposure captured from Satellite Beach, Florida. The break in the streak shows the Main Engine Cutoff (MECO), followed 12-secs later by the ignition of the second-stage engine. Also of note, over the course of the 5-minute exposure, the stars move around the North Star, creating streaks of their own, longer ones further away from the North Star.
