Year: 2019

SLS Artemis 1 Engines Delivered to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility for Core Stage Installation: Photos

Crews delivered the last of four RS-25 engines for Artemis 1, the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, from NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, June 27, 2019. The Aerojet-Rocketdyne engines are lined up side-by-side on June 28 and will be installed

24 Science Satellites Streak to Orbit on Spectacular 1st SpaceX Falcon Heavy Night Launch: Photos

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission streaks to orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 2:30 a.m. EDT in this 10 minute long duration single frame image. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM –

3rd SpaceX Falcon Heavy Poised for 1st Nighttime Launch June 24 with 24 Research Satellites for USAF, NASA, NOAA: Watch Live

Stunning blastoff of triple barreled SpaceX Falcon Heavy on April 11, 2019 at 6:35 PM ET from Launch Complex-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, FL carrying the Arabsat-6A telecommunications satellite to Earth orbit, on 1st commercial launch of Falcon Heavy.  From my remote camera placed at pad 39a.  Launch of the 3rd Falcon Heavy on STP-2 mission for the U.S.

NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover Gets Mast and Wheels: Photos

Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project take a moment after attaching the remote sensing mast to the Mars 2020 rover. The image was taken on June 5, 2019, in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility’s High Bay 1 clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Ken Kremer — SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM – 14 June 2019 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL