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Content Manager for NSF ( @NASASpaceflight ). Aerospace and Launch Photographer. Cinematographer and Commercial UAS Pilot. ➡️

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Jack Beyer
2 years
STARlink. A SpaceX Falcon 9 transits our star while lofting the Starlink 4-29 group into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base this afternoon. @NASASpaceflight
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This is a composite image of SN10's launch and landing. I set this camera to shoot one frame a second, threw out any overlapping shots and stacked them all so we can see the trajectory better. @NASASpaceflight Become a Patron for downloads and more >
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Starship SN15 and Starship SN16. Coolest lawn ornaments ever. @elonmusk @NASASpaceflight
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I'm curious what this green flash is, if it were Falcon 9 the no brainer answer would be TEA-TEB - but Raptor just uses spark ignitors. It was visible during engine ignition for SN10's flip maneuver, specifically when the third and final engine lit. @elonmusk @NASASpaceflight
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Starship first flight remote camera pickup part 1: utter carnage. @NASASpaceflight
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Just @elonmusk and Gwynne Shotwell casually inspecting Starship SN8’s remains. Nbd. @NASASpaceflight
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The first ever double Starship Sunset in Boca Chica. @NASASpaceflight
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Video: Firefly Alpha's in-flight anomaly. Stay tuned to the NSF youtube channel for the full video. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN10's post landing demise is unfortunate but still, everyone at SpaceX can chalk todays flight test up as a huge success. Become a patron at the link below for photo downloads, behind the scenes goodies, and more. @NASASpaceflight ➡️
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Starships SN9 and SN10 at SpaceX’s South Texas launch site, as seen from the air. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
The First Super Heavy Booster has been stacked. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship SN11 has its flaps extended this afternoon while it undergoes some actuation testing, a rare treat! @NASASpaceflight
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4 years
Science at work. #SpaceX ’s Starship Serial Number 6 becomes the second Starship prototype to successfully complete a 150m hop. Congratulations to everyone whos hard work enabled this triumph of engineering. @NASASpaceflight
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Two Starships. @NASASpaceflight
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Super Heavy B4 Aft Section with 29 Raptor engines. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN15 coming in for a landing. @NASASpaceflight
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4 years
Today is the 1 year anniversary of Starhopper’s 150m hop. Still some of the most fun I’ve ever had, shooting one of the coolest things I’ve ever photographed/witnessed. Mmm methalox mach diamonds. @NASASpaceflight
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Super Heavy Booster's 33 Raptor engines. Looking so clean! @NASAspaceflight
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Starship SN15 on the landing pad. Check out the landing legs in the second shot. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
A Raptor Engine labeled “Under Doge” (serial number unknown) was delivered to the Starship build site in Boca Chica just now, and Raptor SN56 (green nozzle) took its place on the Raptor van, presumably headed back to Hawthorne or Mcgregor. @NASASpaceflight
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Scenes from the crash site. Starship SN9 made a valiant effort to stick the landing but ultimately failed. Its wreckage is now strewn about the launch site as a result. Good effort SN9, good luck SN10. (Check out the Raptor guts in the third photo!) @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
The Sun sets on Starship SN11 ahead of a day of testing tomorrow. Good luck you magnificent steel monolith. Good luck. @NASASpaceflight
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The first ever full stack of Starship Super Heavy. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN15 at sunset yesterday. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship SN15 coming in for a landing on two engines. This is the dawn of a new era in spaceflight! So long expendable rockets, hello full and rapid reuse! The future just got a little brighter. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Super Heavy Booster Number 1 construction continues in the High Bay. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship SN10 launched *and* stuck the landing today! Even if it fell over shortly afterward, a huge milestone has been reached. /thread @NASASpaceflight
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1 year
Orbital launch mount after Starship’s first flight: toasty.
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3 years
Three Raptor engines pushing Starship SN15 into the sky. @NASASpaceflight
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2 years
Full stack Starship sunrise. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship SN8 takes flight. Welcome to the future. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship S20 lifted onto Super Heavy B4 for fit checks, before being lowered back onto its transport mount. What a beautiful sight. @NASASpaceflight
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6 months
World’s largest shock diamond.
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6 months
Thirty. Three. Raptors. Super stoked to have captured Booster 9 and her Raptor engines in their glory this morning - the was the first time all 33 were successfully ignited with continuous burn through first stage flight. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight 📺 -
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144 megapixel composite image of Starship 20's windward side. Enjoy! @NASASpaceflight ➡️
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Deimos, one of the oil rigs SpaceX is planning on converting into a floating Spaceport, as seen from the air today, 01-19-21. Its name has been painted on the helipad and lifeboats, so cool. @elonmusk @NASASpaceflight
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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity launching the first human spaceflight from Spaceport America and New Mexico this morning. Beautiful. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN9 and SpaceX's South Texas launch site as seen from the air, 01-19-21. @NASASpaceflight
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1 year
Starship first flight. Utterly surreal. @NASASpaceflight
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2 years
Two Alpha Jets flying past the full Starship stack. It never ceases to amaze me the things you can see in Starbase when you are at the right place at the right time. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship 20 has moved from the Mid Bay to the High Bay ahead of nosecone stacking. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
This is what the faces of two super nerds look like after witnessing the culmination of two years of Starship chasing. So glad we got a moment together today Tim! @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
I've been exploring around the Port of Brownsville while waiting for Starship testing and found an oil rig that appears to be named Deimos, after one of the moons of Mars! Based on job postings and @elonmusk 's tweets, I'm willing to bet that SpaceX is involved. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship SN9 has become the second starship prototype to conduct a high altitude test flight, and the second to have a hard landing. No matter, SN10 is nearly ready for its try. @NASASpaceflight Full res downloads available to my patrons, sign up here.
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3 years
Super cool to see Starship thermal protection tiles applied by hand today. I wonder how long until this is an automated process. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Seeing two Starships on the pad at the same time can only be described as surreal. SN9 is on Suborbital Pad B (left) and SN10 is on Suborbital Pad A (right). @NASASpaceflight
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1 year
SLS and Artemis 1 lifting off LC-39B. Simply amazing! Back to the moon we go. @NASASpaceflight
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Super Heavy B4 being rotated into position while suspended over the Launch Mount earlier today. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Firefly's Alpha rocket suffered an anomaly after liftoff. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship 20 has arrived at the launch site. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Zeus, one of SpaceX’s robo-dogs from @BostonDynamics , just went out for quick landing pad inspection. Neat. @NASASpaceflight
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6 months
In thrust we trust. Starship takes flight for the second time. Print available here: Watch the @NASASpaceflight stream here as we dissect what we just saw:
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3 years
Looks like no raptors are currently installed on Starship SN10. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Oh hey, it's SN15. @NASASpaceflight
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5 years
The world’s largest airplane takes flight! @Stratolaunch @NASASpaceflight #stratolaunch
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3 years
Challenging conditions tonight for Starlink 2-1, but at least I managed to get something. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Our Star peaking through the clouds over SpaceX’s South Texas launch site last night at sunset. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Congratulations to everyone at SpaceX for a truly outstanding job. Thank you all for your hard work bringing us the future of spaceflight and indeed, humanity. #StarshipSN8 @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship Wreckage (from a wildly successful test flight) @NASASpaceflight
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6 months
The pad just three hours post launch. Holy moly now that’s what I can a rapidly reusable launch pad! @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Ship 20's 3 vacuum optimized and 3 sea level optimized Raptor engines. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN11’s first sunset at the launch site. It was a good one. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Starship SN11 has arrived at the launch site. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Two Raptor engines were delivered to Starbase Boca Chica this morning. RSN72 "Philosoraptor" and RSN74 "Plaid Mode". Two other Raptors were loaded onto the truck and left. RNS59 and another one that I didn't catch the serial number of. @NASASpaceflight
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Launch, Land, Reuse, Repeat. 80 still frames from my single remote camera setup for today's #SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch of Sentinel-6A, arranged for your viewing pleasure. (Thumbnail image is a composite made by stacking a landing and liftoff shot) @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN10 has had its flight termination system installed! This is one of the important final indicators that a test flight is imminent. Check out the red “remove before flight” tags visible on them in the third shot. @NASASpaceflight
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5 years
@elonmusk inspecting his ship and climbing inside with a camera crew. He looks delighted.
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Starship SN15 has landed. @NASASpaceflight
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B4 approaching the Launch Mount. Humans for scale.
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2 years
Booster 7 completed its latest round of testing and Booster 8 was rolled to the Launch Site. Meanwhile, the B7.1 test tank was rolled back to the Production Site. Video + Photos by Mary ( @BocaChicaGal ) and Nic ( @NicAnsuini ) for @NASASpaceflight . ➡️
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Starship Flight 2 remote setup (2)! @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Our Star and Starship SN11. @NASASpaceflight
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1 year
Surveying the damage. Loads more imagery of the aftermath of Starship's first flight available for youtube and discord members. @NASASpaceflight ➡️
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3 years
Static Fire! Starship SN11 fired up its engines this morning ahead of a test test flight hopefully in the next few days. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
SN9 and SN10. @NASASpaceflight
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5 years
WOW. First flight of the worlds largest airplane. History is made. @Stratolaunch @NASASpaceflight #stratolaunch
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Starship and Super Heavy lifting off on flight 2. Check out those pressure waves! @NASASpaceflight
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4 Reaver engines blasting Firefly's Alpha rocket into orbit from SLC-2 at VSFB this morning. Once again congratulations to everyone whose hard work resulted in last nights wildly successful launch. @NASASpaceflight
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Ship 20 and the Chopsticks waiting to conduct their first ever lift. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship 24 has been moved to the Rocket Garden... now what? @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Scenes from the crash site. Starship SN10 landed, but shortly after experienced a RUD. This is the aftermath of that rapid unscheduled disassembly. Check out the mangled Raptor Engine in the 4th pic! @NASASpaceflight
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5 years
Starhopper completed a successful hop test today. Here’s photos from 1.5 miles away. @NASASpaceflight Please consider supporting me on Patreon ➡️➡️
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3 years
Here's a 93 megapixel composite image of Raptor Serial Number 44, it's so detailed you can read the labels on the plumbing! Full resolution at the link below, downloads available to members of my Patreon (link in bio). @NASASpaceflight Full Res here⤵️⤵️⤵️
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Tonight's Starship SN8 Wet Dress Rehearsal in 54 seconds. Press, Tank, Detank, Depress. 15km / 50,000 ft test flight here we come! @NASASpaceflight
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Stacking of Super Heavy Booster Number 1’s LOX tank atop it’s Methane tank is nearly complete. @NASASpaceflight
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Ship 20 has arrived back at the High Bay. @NASASpaceflight
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SpaceX Falcon 9 B1071 launching NROL-87 and then landing back at LZ-4, all in a single frame. This image is a composite of two shots from the same camera - extra thanks to @johnkrausphotos for the advice on the edit. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN10 looks set to attempt a test flight tomorrow! I always enjoy spending sunsets with these vehicles on the eves of their potential success or destruction. @NASASpaceflight
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Raptor Engine evolution. Raptor 2 on the left, Raptor 1.5 on the right. Makes me wonder what the *next* generation of Raptor (Raptor 3?) will look like. @NASASpaceflight
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Starship SN15 is ready and waiting with flaps extended for its chance to fly (and hopefully land without exploding) - but it won't be today, launch has been scrubbed. Photos taken at the launch site just now. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
Bezos blasts off. #NS16 @NASASpaceflight
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2 years
Good morning, Starship. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
In thrust we trust. Super Heavy B4 shows off its 29 Raptor engines while it waits to be lifted onto the launch mount. @NASASpaceflight
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Super Heavy Booster 4 at the launch site right now, waiting to be lifted onto the Orbital Launch Pad. So. Many. Raptors. @NASASpaceflight
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3 years
VSS Unity launches @richardbranson and crew into space from @Spaceport_NM this morning. @NASASpaceflight @VirginOrbit #Unity22
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This has to be my favorite shot from SN11’s rollout yesterday. The tiny people in the foreground provide a sense of scale that is sometimes hard to convey with Starship. @NASASpaceflight
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Some photos from today's aborted @VirginGalactic launch. Glad everyone is ok. This is what testing is for. @NASASpaceflight
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1 year
Starship Superheavy flight 1. Totally bonkies. @NASASpaceflight
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9 months
4x slow motion footage of drop and ignition from today’s @virgingalactic Galactic 02 mission. @NASASpaceflight Rewatch our stream here:
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5 years
Where we’re going. / Where we’ve been. 11 years ago today, Falcon 1 (bottom right) first successfully achieved orbit. Today, Starship mk 1 stands next to it’s diminutive progenitor as we await updates on #SpaceX ’s next generation of rockets.
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Here's a 352 Megapixel image of Starship Serial Number 8 for your enjoyment. @NASASpaceflight
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