Solar Bears Beat Icemen 2-0 | Photo: TJ Waller, FMN
Orlando – (Tue., Jan. 14, 2025) – The Orlando Solar Bears secure their sixth consecutive victory beating the Jacksonville Ice Icemen 2-0 Tuesday evening in the Orlando KIA Center!
Booster B1067 returns to Port Canaveral following its 25th successful launch. Blue Origin’s New Glenn is vertical in the background awaiting its own opportunity to land. Human for scale. Photo: Chris Leymarie, FMN.
SpaceX successfully launched the Starlink 12-12 mission from Cape Canaveral on Thursday afternoon. With that, SpaceX added 21 new satellites to its ever growing internet constellation, 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities.
The US Census Bureau released a new report Thursday indicating that Florida’s population has surged past 23.3 million, placing it among the fastest-growing states in the nation.
“Watch That Stick!” #29 Jarrett Lee finds himself in a precarious situation | Photo: TJ Waller, FMN
Orlando KIA Center – The Orlando Solar Bears lose another home game to the Florida Everblades, 4-1, after coming off the road with a three-game winning streak.
SpaceX sent another group of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit early this evening from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral. Liftoff was at 5:10 PM EDT under stiff breezes and crystal blue skies.
SpaceX Starship IFT-5 prior to launching. Photo: Chris Leymarie, FMN
SpaceX’s fifth flight test of a complete Starship was a resounding success. After watching that launch, it is hard not to be inspired by what is coming for SpaceX and humanity.
MS-25 landing via NASA livestream on September 23, 2024.
NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson has returned to Earth from the International Space Station. During her 184 days in space, she orbited Earth 2,944 times and traveled approximately 78 million miles.
Falcon 9 and Northrup Grumman’s NG-21 Cygnus cargo capsule lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral on August 4. 2024 Photo: Charles Boyer / Florida Media Now
Despite on a 10% GO forecast and storms closing in from a distance, Falcon 9 flies another perfect mission.
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Northrup Grumman’s Cygnus CRS-2 NG-21 (S.S. Francis R. “Dick” Scobee) to orbit this morning from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff was at 11:02 AM EDT under variable skies that showed a strong chance of storms coming in shortly afterwards.
Closeup of Falcon 9’s Merlin engines as the rocket lifts off. The static fire conducted last night was testing this part of the spacecraft. Photo: Charles Boyer / Talk of Titusville
SpaceX conducted a static-firing of the nine Merlin engines of a Falcon 9 booster first stage at SLC-40 last night as the company prepares to return to flight after a very rare in-flight failure on July 11.
The Front of the RPSF building containing segments of the SRB’s. Image by Richard P Gallagher
Kennedy Space Center, FL – Today media gathered at KSC to greet the arrival of the NASA Pegasus barge ship carrying the iconic orange center core of the SLS Artemis ll rocket. It arrived about 10:30 this morning at the KSC Turning Basin where tugboats Termite and American position it at the dock so the rocket core can be unloaded and prepared for its truck journey to the nearby VAB son July 24th.
The countdown clock at KSC displaying the GOES-U satellite. Image by Richard P Gallagher
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is set to launch its latest geostationary weather satellite, GOES-U, on June 25, 2024, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission, the final installment in the GOES-R series, will dramatically advance weather observation and environmental monitoring technology.
