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#Repost @navidbaraty ・・・ 27 Merlin engines. 6 sonic booms. 5 million pounds of thrust. What a spectacle it was to watch (and feel) the world’s most powerful rocket launch from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday morning at 2:30am. • Some of the payloads on the rocket included The Planetary Society’s solar-sailing LightSail 2 spacecraft, NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, Defense Department satellites, and the cremated remains of 152 people. • This image wouldn’t have happened without krazy glue. Earlier in the day, just as we arrived at the launch pad with other photographers setting up remote cameras, the mirror on my Nikon D800 came unglued from the mechanism. Over five years of owning my camera and countless shoots I’ve done with it—it chose the afternoon of a rocket launch that I was on assignment for to break on me. With no camera shops around, I decided I had to try to fix it. So, on the floor of the imax theater in the Kennedy Space Center a few hours before the launch, I reattached the mirror to my camera with krazy glue. Needless to say I was beyond thrilled that the glue held through the insane heat and humidity of the night and into the wee hours of the morning. . . . #launch #rocketlaunch #travel #spacex #capecanaveral #nasa #lightsail #kennedyspacecenter #space #florida #ksc #rocket #fbf #falconheavylaunch #spacecoast #falconheavy #spacexlaunch #ccafs #tlpicks #stp2 #lr_vibrant #bbctravel #travelphotographer #natgeotravel #passionpassport #floridaspacecoast #yourshotphotographer #ignition #nightphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/BzRYzXah2tr/?igshid=1g42ucl3sgri8

The satellite will be deployed approximately 32 minutes after liftoff. Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

New Horizons launches for Pluto

Launch of GOES-17 aboard an Atlas V 541 from CCAFS SLC 41 on 2018/01/03.

Thanks for watching!

China’s Jilin-1 Earth Observation satellite passed over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station March 3 and captured the above image of the spaceport. The historic launch pads of ‘Missile Row’ can be seen parallel to the coastline. One of these, LC-13, can be seen redesigned as SpaceX’s Landing Zone-1.  ULA’s Delta IV pad, SLC-37, can be seen in the upper left corner. The industrial hub of the Air Force station can be seen in center-left, housing numerous assembly and storage hangars, machine shops, and other facilities. Just south of here lies the skid strip, a 10,000 foot runway used to deliver payloads, heavy equipment, and even launch satellites to orbit. Recent ground work at Blue Origin’s SLC-36 is also visible. P/C: CASC.