Falcon Heavy lifts Jupiter 3 to orbit

Michael Howard

July 29, 2023

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SpaceX's second launch in less than 24 hours on July 28 sends Jupiter 3 to space.

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Falcon 9 launches the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft to orbit on December 9, 2021.

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer takes flight

“It is an indescribable feeling to see something you’ve worked on for decades become real and launch into space,” Martin Weisskopf, Principal Investigator, IXPE

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Palm Shores and the Indian River Lagoon were treated to a spectacle of light and sound early this morning as United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket and Northrop Grumman's STP-3 satellite ascended to orbit.  Photo credit: Michael Seeley / We Report Space

Space Test Program-3 Takes To The Skies

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After a couple of launch scrubs and a short delay, STP-3 makes its ascent to orbit.

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United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket carries NASA's Lucy spacecraft to orbit.  Photo credit: Michael Howard / We Report Space

Lucy Begins Her Journey to the Trojan Asteroids

Setting off on a twelve year journey to a point near the orbit of Jupiter, Lucy lifts off from Cape Canaveral on October 16th, 2021.

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The first stage booster of SpaceX's Falcon 9 returns to land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Photo credit: Michael Howard / We Report Space

All Eights: SpaceX Transporter 2 Takes to the Skies

8th flight of this Falcon 9, 88 satellites, and a return-to-launch-site landing 8 minutes after liftoff.

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Stunning, full color photo book covering every east coast launch spanning 2014-2015, including the first-ever powered landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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