Michael Seeley
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Michael Seeley: Photos of stuff (rockets preferred). @WeReportSpace co-founder; @NatGeo contributor; President, @Health_First Foundation. Follows&RTs≠endorse.
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The
#SpaceX
#Falcon9
meets the Moon as another batch of
#Starlink
satellites are sent to orbit.
Congrats to
@elonmusk
& team on another successful launch & landing!
(📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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2 yrs ago, the world's most powerful operational rocket took flight as the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carried the ArabSat6a satellite to orbit.
8-mins after launch, the side boosters returned to LZ1 & LZ2. (Sonic booms galore!)
It was truly spectacular.
(📷: me)
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1.7 million pounds of thrust: 9 Merlin engines push the
#SpaceX
#CRS23
#Falcon9
rocket off the pad, sending supplies to the
@Space_Station
.
📷: me / National Geographic
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Mega moon rocket, meet your destination: The “Full Pink Moon” sets behind LC-39A and the SLS rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, seen Saturday morning.
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This was unlike anything I've ever seen before: Congratulations
@elonmusk
and the
@SpaceX
team. I'll let my pictures of the
#SpaceX
#FalconHeavy
speak for themselves.
Wow. Just, wow.
(Pics by me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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The Force was strong with this one: The
#SpaceX
#CRS17
#Falcon9
, launched and landed (!!!) as seen from the roof of the VAB.
Congrats,
@elonmusk
and team,
#MayTheForthBeWithYou
!
(Single exposure by me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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At 8:07pm (ET), a SpaceX
#FalconHeavy
rocket carried the USSF52 mission past the Moon and to space.
Wow. just, wow.
(📷:me from Titusville, FL)
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#OTD
: February 6, 2018, the
#FalconHeavy
by
#SpaceX
made a stunningly spectacular debut.
My reaction then, and still: Wow. Just, wow.
This shot is a long exposure from near the pad: 3 boosters = 3 streaks aka SPACE LASERS!
(Pics: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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This is amazing, from the always-great
@ThierryLegault
, seen from Macon, France: “Today's solar eclipse, with a transit of the ISS.”
Check out his work here:
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The 2021
@AviationWeek
Photo Contest results are in & I'm thrilled to report that my photo of the
#SpaceX
#Falcon9
rocket passing in front of the Moon was awarded 2nd place in the Space category. (1/3)
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#Falcon9
meets Sun: This 4-sec series is from my 2nd camera. Look at the solar flare-like distortion on the margins of the Sun as the rocket passes.
Congrats to
@elonmusk
&
#SpaceX
, this was an epic thing to witness (& to capture)!
(📸:me/
@WeReportSpace
)
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The
#Starlink
#Falcon9
rocket meets the Milky Way, with the downrange second stage plume lit by the rising Sun. It was a lovely scene.
This was a milestone 9th flight for this booster. Well done,
@elonmusk
and team!
(Pic & quick field edit by me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Good morning, Space Coast: A
#SpaceX
#Falcon9
sent the
#GPSIIISV06
payload to space this (Wednesday) morning at 7:24am (ET), seen here passing in front of the just-risen Sun.
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This is the mightly
#AltasV
rocket w/ 4 solid rocket boosters, carrying the
#GOESS
weather satellite, captured by my pad camera (500-ish feet from the rocket), and then animated using
@Plotaverse
.
Congrats to
@torybruno
& the
@ulalaunch
team!
(Pic: me/
@WeReportSpace
)
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(Astronaut)
@WilliamShatner
is understandably affected, going deep with his feelings:”Everybody in the world needs to do this…the comforter of blue down there…black above and there is Mother Earth…is that what death is like?”
Everyone else there: *sprays champagne*
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At 8:07pm (ET) Thurs, a SpaceX
#FalconHeavy
rocket carried the USSF52 mission past the Moon and to space.
Look at the shockwaves from the > 5 million pounds of thrust produced by 27 Merlin engines - the Moon appears to melt. 🔥🔥🔥
Wow. just, wow.
(📷:me from Titusville, FL)
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Good morning,
#Falcon9
.
That's not a huge sunspot, it's the
#SpaceX
#Starlink
launch.
(Pic: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Liftoff!
At 3:14am (ET) Sunday, the
#SpaceX
#CRS23
#Falcon9
sent a
#CargoDragon
capsule full of goodies to the Space Station.
It was a beautiful launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, & the 90th successful 1st stage landing for
@elonmusk
& SpaceX.
📷:me/NatGeo
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An Airbus A321-231 flying over the Space Coast of FL (aka area code 321) passes in front of the almost full Moon: That's American Airlines flt 2194, traveling from Charlotte, NC to Fort Lauderdale, FL Saturday night @ 34k feet & 483 kts.
(📷:me, flight data by
@flightradar24
)
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Twelve hours: The Monday 8/29 launch window for the
#ArtemisI
mission opens at 8:33am (EDT).
#WeAreGoing
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We couldn’t hear the
@inspiration4x
landing in Cocoa Beach, but you could definitely hear the 2 sonic booms!
Welcome home,
#Inspiration4
!
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Sunrise, Space Coast style.
That's the
#SpaceX
#Starlink
#Falcon9
passing in front of the Sun after a 7:19am (ET) launch this morning.
(📷:me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Santa came a little bit early this year.
Welcome, Starlink.
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy (background)
+
John Kraus (foreground)
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Real-time sequence showing the
#SpaceX
#Falcon9
rocket passing in front of the nearly full
#HuntersMoon
, seen from Titusville, Florida.
The rocket was carrying the
@INTELSAT
G33/G34 payload to orbit.
It. Was. Amazing!
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My second winning photo this year is my shot of a
@BoeingAirplanes
747, operated by
@AtlasAirWW
, passing in front of the Moon.
Shout-out to
@flightradar24
for the tool to know when to expect these shots and for helping identify the aircraft.
(4/6)
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Moon (20% illuminated) + 7 humans, traveling over 17,000 mph aboard the International Space Station + clouds (lots of them, unfortunately).
(10-second tracked exposure)
#SpotTheStation
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Final approach, Tranquility Base: A Boeing 747 (operated by Atlas Air) appears to be flying toward the Apollo 11 landing site & Mare Tranquillitatis on the face of the partially illuminated Moon.
(📷: me w/ flight data by
@flightradar24
, Sept 4, 2022 from the Space Coast of FL)
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The SpaceX Falcon9 rocket carrying the
#Ax1
mission to the International Space Station, streaking off LC-39A.
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This is an extremely misleading caption for the largely successful (& certainly amazing)
#SpaceX
#Starship
test flight.
If the only thing that needs to be worked out is the landing,
@SpaceX
&
@elonmusk
have definitely shown that they’ve got that covered...
NEW: Unmanned SpaceX Starship test flight explodes during landing. There was no one on board the ship.
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This never gets old:
#SpaceX
just launched & landed another
#Falcon9
rocket; their 27th launch of 2021, the 129th Falcon9 launch overall, & the 9th trip for this particular booster (tonight carrying
#Starlink
sats).
Well done,
@elonmusk
& team!
(📷:me/
@WeReportSpace
)
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The
#SpaceX
fleet is on full display to welcome home B1062 after the
#Inspiration4
launch.
It's hard to imagine a more successful mission: 4 new astronauts, millions of ppl inspired, hundreds of millions of $$ raised for
@StJude
.
This will be a hard act to follow.
📷:me/NatGeo
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This.
Was.
Incredible.
Congratulations,
@elonmusk
&
@SpaceX
, & to the
@AF_SMC
on the
#FalconHeavy
#STP2
launch (&landings!!) -- the streak is a single, 646-second exposure. No, you're not seeing double, those are side-by-side landing streaks!
(Pics: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Welcome home to the
#SpaceX
#CargoDragon
, seen here streaking over Florida.
This was seriously cool to see.
(137-sec exposure by me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Mighty
#AtlasV
rocket vs. The Sun (video): This is the
#SILENTBARKER
ULA AtlasV passing in front of the Sun real-time & slowed to 30% speed.
You can see why
@torybruno
calls this configuration “The Bruiser” as the shockwaves briefly melt the Sun as the rocket passes.
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Views of the
#LunarEclipse
seen from the Rocket Garden at
@ExploreSpaceKSC
with guest appearances by some friends: the Juno II, the Delta II, and Saturn 1B rockets.
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#OTD
2 years ago, the last United Launch Alliance Delta IV Medium rocket launched, sending the GPSIII SV02 satellite to orbit.
This was the view from ~ 1 mile south of the Cocoa Beach Pier.
(📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Congratulations to the
#SpaceX
team for the successful first launch (& landing!) of the
#Bangabandhu1
#Block5
#Falcon9
#Falcon9Block5
, seen here from the Press Site at NASA's KSC, & congrats to
#Bangladesh
for this historic launch!
(Photos: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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#OTD
4yrs ago: An up-close view of the recently landed JCSAT-14
#Falcon9
1st-stage as it moved from Port Canaveral to the
#SpaceX
hangar at LC-39A.
This was only the 3rd landed booster; many design changes since (titanium grid fins, etc).
(📷: me;
@johnkrausphotos
for scale)
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*AHEM* Hi there,
@RoyalCaribbean
Independence of the Seas; leaving port 60 mins before the
#SpaceX
launch?
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The SpaceX fleet is on display as the Falcon 9 booster B1060 returns to port.
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The
@inspiration4x
zero-g indicator "space puppy" found some battery-powered festive lights and came out to the beach last night for the
#SpaceX
TurkSat5b Falcon9 launch.
It was quite a show!
(📷: me, 201-sec single exposure)
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Smiles all around from the
#Crew4
crew as they leave the Neil Armstrong O&C building for the trip to LC-39A.
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Best sunrise ever!
At 6:13 am (ET) this morning, a Mighty
@ulaunch
launched the
#AEHF5
satellite atop a Mighty
#AtlasV
rocket.
Congratulations to
@torybruno
& the ULA team, w/ thanks to the
@45thSpaceWing
for their always-great support!
(📸: me /
@wereportspace
)
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That's
@AmericanAir
flight 1572 passing over the Space Coast and in front of the 81% illuminated Moon on its way from Toronto, Canada to Miami, Florida.
The
@Airbus
A319 was flying at 28,000ft & 428kts.
(📷:me; flight data from
@flightradar24
)
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Seen from Melbourne, Florida: That's
@AmericanAir
flight 751 (a Boeing 737-823) flying at 38,000ft from CLT to MIA passing in front of the nearly Full Hunter's Moon.
(📷: me)
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Twitter crop = gone? Let's see how my favorite vertical streak looks.
This is the July 18, 2016
#SpaceX
CRS-9
#Falcon9
launch and landing, captured in a single 483-sec exposure. (This image won an APOD, and was published in the Nov '16
@NatGeoMag
.)
📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
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Stunning
#sunrise
launch of the
#SpaceX
#CRS15
#Falcon9
as seen from the roof of the VAB.
(Pic: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Launch & land a rocket 5 times, 4 days after launching crew to the ISS?
#SpaceX
: Challenge accepted!
This was the cloudy view of the
#Starlink
launch from Port Canaveral, as the
#Demo2
1st stage
#Falcon9
lies horizontal in the foreground.
📷: me/
@WeReportSpace
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Launched and landed 16 times:
At 11:58pm (ET) Sunday,
#SpaceX
sent a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit making Falcon 9 booster 1058 the new fleet leader with 16 (!) launches and landings.
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The 1st launch of 2021 sure was a pretty one.
This is the
#SpaceX
#Turksat5A
#Falcon9
rocket, seen in a 180-sec exposure from Palm Shores, 25-ish miles south of Cape Canaveral.
(Bonus: Birb)
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#Inspiration4
campaign photographer
@johnkrausphotos
(aka Space X Ninja 30) casually throws a wave during the pre-flight crew walkout event as Elon visits with the families of the I4 crew. No big deal.
Congratulations, John, your work = the best. Well done!
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The first launch of 2022 (and a rare daytime launch!) looking great from Playalinda Beach as a
#SpaceX
#Falcon9
rocket carries another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit.
(📷:me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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2 rockets in 23 hours, night, and day all in one frame:
Friday night SES O3b mPOWER launch on right, Saturday afternoon Starlink launch on left a mere 23 hours later.
With these 2 FL launches & 1 other (launched from CA),
#SpaceX
launched 3 rockets in under 34 hours.
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Airbus A350 vs the 37% waxing moon, seen Friday from the Space Coast.
That’s Qatar Airways flight QR777 traveling from Doha (DOH) to Miami (MIA) @ 505kts & 35k feet.
(📷: me, flight data by
@flightradar24
)
#PlaneSpotters
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I was today years old when I realized there is a dragon on display at
@ExploreSpaceKSC
in the “NASA Now” exhibit: Meet the
#SpaceX
Dragon Cargo Vehicle from the COTS-2 Mission, & the 1st American vehicle to visit the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program.
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American Airlines flight 1698 passing in front of the Sun, seen Saturday (5/13) from the Space Coast of Florida, real-time & then slowed.
The Boeing 737-823 was traveling from Miami (MIA) to Charlotte (CLT) at 37k feet & 468 knots.
(📷: me w/ flight data by
@flightradar24
)
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Liftoff!
5 million pounds of thrust, on display: Up close with the business end of the
#SpaceX
Falcon Heavy rocket as it carried the Viasat-3 Americas payload to orbit Sunday.
The 27 Merlin engines generate as much thrust as eighteen 747 aircraft.
(📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Good morning, Sun, and good morning,
#Falcon9
!
This is the
#SpaceX
#Starlink
rocket, passing in front of the Sun, seen Wednesday morning from Titusville, Florida.
(📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Trying out
@PlotagraphPro
& of course I needed to test it on a
@ulalaunch
#DeltaIV
rocket pic. cc:
@torybruno
@WeAreGoFL
@Taraustralis
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Launched and landed! Congratulations to
@SpaceX
and
@northropgrumman
on the successful
#Zuma
launch &
#Falcon9
first stage landing!
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Cathay Pacific Cargo flight CX2086 had a close encounter with the Moon Wednesday morning on its way to
@iflymia
, seen here from Melbourne, Florida.
That's a Boeing 747-867F, traveling at 507kts & and an altitude of 36,000feet.
(📷: me, w/ flight data by
@flightradar24
)
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Under *very* clear skies Monday night, the
#SpaceX
#Starlink
#Falcon9
launch was majestic.
This was the view from Titusville, FL.
Shown: 1st stage, 2nd stage, entry burn & 24-mins of star trails(w/ bonus bird, hanging out on the green sign).
(Composite: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Launch. Land. Repeat.
Another beautiful SpaceX Falcon9 launch carrying 60 Starlink satellites to orbit Wednesday morning at 4:28am.
(📷: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Space lasers (x3), engage!
This is 25-seconds of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the
#ViaSat3Americas
payload to space, launched Sunday night.
Image captured by a sound-activated camera placed ~2,000 feet from the pad.
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It was a truly beautiful scene from Cocoa Beach as the mighty
#AtlasV
rocket carried the
#SolarOrbiter
aloft, seen here in a 180-sec exposure.
Truly,
#WeAreAllSolarOrbiters
.
And, bonus photobomb by the nearly Full Moon.
(Pic: me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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I said this after the 1st Falcon Heavy, and it still applies:
Wow. Just, wow.
Congratulations
@elonmusk
& the
@SpaceX
team on a stunning launch of the
#SpaceX
#FalconHeavy
#Arabsat6A
.
(Pics by me /
@WeReportSpace
)
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Waiting for the
#Inspiration4
crew “walk out”; it’s a total (and well-deserved) rock star vibe here at
#SpaceX
Hangar X.
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