United Launch Alliance successfully launched the #GOESR satellite for NOAA at 6:42pm (ET), the end of the hour long launch window. This is the rocket, lifting off the pad.
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United Launch Alliance successfully launched the #GOESR satellite for NOAA at 6:42pm (ET), the end of the hour long launch window. This is the rocket, lifting off the pad.
Tags: Atlas V GOES-R Kennedy Space Center Michael Seeley Mike Seeley NASA NOAA Tory Bruno ULA ULALaunch United Launch Alliance WeReportSpace
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United Launch Alliance successfully launched the #GOESR satellite for NOAA at 6:42pm (ET), the end of the hour long launch window. This is a 153 second exposure of the rocket.
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United Launch Alliance successfully launched the #GOESR satellite for NOAA at 6:42pm (ET), the end of the hour long launch window. This is the rocket about 2 hours before the rocket would launch.
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#GOESR #AtlasV Twilight shot: Denied.
This is a completely hacked shot. It's a combination of two frames taken off my backup streak camera. The first frame was taken at 5:20pm as the sun was setting. She sky was just brilliant, and the sun was throwing lovely oranges and reds downrange. The second frame is a 163 second exposure of the streak, taken at 6:42pm.
I'm showing it here to show a version of the shot we were hoping for, but as the launch slipped to the end of the window, we ended up shooting a full nighttime launch. I'm still not sure what issues United Launch Alliance needed to work out (and then the range got involved, also adding a few minutes to the delay), but despite missing the twilight, it was still a really lovely launch.
Tech specs:
Frame 1: 13 second exposure, f7.1, ISO 100 through a 10 stop ND filter
Frame 2: 163 second exposure, f20, ISO 100
Both were at 10mm (on a crop sensor).
Frames processed in Lightroom and then stacked in Photoshop.
Tags: Atlas V GOES-R Kennedy Space Center Michael Seeley Mike Seeley NASA NOAA Tory Bruno ULA ULALaunch United Launch Alliance WeReportSpace