Alex L. 🚀

Spaceflight and Airshow Photographer with @LaunchHeavenX

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

BACK TO THE MOON TO STAY

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

actually huge

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[Asher B. @asherbphotos]

First look at LC-36 from the air this morning after the explosion of New Glenn last night during a failed hotfire test.
Visible is the wreckage from the destroyed TE as well as the fallen lightning tower. More to come soon.

📸 - @LaunchHeavenX

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Some of the best footage yet of tonight’s explosion involving Blue Origin’s New Glenn, during a Static Fire Test at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) in Florida. LC-36 appears to have suffered significant damage, with several towers and other structures entirely missing, likely to require months if not over a year of repair work by Blue Origin, NASA, and the U.S. Space Force.

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

BONG BONG BONG

[Hunter Manley @huntermanley]

@DJSnM @NASASpaceflight My pizza delivery was a little interesting…

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

imma literally start crying istg rn

[GoPro @GoPro]

Front row seats for the world's largest + most powerful rocket launch—Starship V3 🚀 Captured in 8K60 on #GoProMISSION1 Pro by @LaunchHeavenX

Fun Fact: This 408-foot-tall (124m) rocket delivers over 18 million pounds of thrust. That's equivalent to the thrust of 31 Boeing 747s jumbo jets at full power, combined 🤯

@SpaceX #GoPro #Science #Starship #Rocket

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Views of Starship in space from a @Starlink satellite

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

Welcome to the team 👀

[Gavin Richmond @tweetsiphotos]

Falcon 9 launches the CRS-34 mission to the International Space Station at 6:05p.m. EDT.

Booster B1096 made its sixth landing at LZ-40 after launch.

📸 for @LaunchHeavenX

[Launch Heaven @LaunchHeavenX]

https://t.co/zViO8m6UkC

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

@asherbphotos Bro honestly this month has been quite literally a movie. So many awesome launches and so many awesome photos from so many awesome photographers

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

DJI Osmo 5 footage of this launch from .4 miles away!

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

The Heavy 27 🚀

Successful liftoff of Falcon Heavy for the first time in ~1.5 years carrying the Viasat-F3 satellite to geosynchronous orbit this morning!

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

@tweetsiphotos @LaunchHeavenX Tyty 🫶

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

The Heavy 27 🚀

Successful liftoff of Falcon Heavy for the first time in ~1.5 years carrying the Viasat-F3 satellite to geosynchronous orbit this morning!

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

@tweetsiphotos @TLPN_Official Insane

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

Falcon Heavy is vertical at the pad with the launch set for tomorrow at 10:31 am.

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

@AJamesMcCarthy Woah

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Now targeting Wednesday, April 29 for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the @viasat-3 F3 mission from Florida. The 85-minute window opens at 10:13 a.m. ET → https://t.co/Z9nzcfYdVU

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

Scrub of today’s attempt for Falcon Heavy. Still awaiting details on when they’re targeting launch.

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

@GroundTruthPics @TheAstro_Cowboy @bluebirdgroup @LaunchHeavenX Tyty 🫶

[Alex L. 🚀 @Alex_Lenssen]

Successful liftoff, not so great deployment…

New Glenn launched from LC-36 at 7:25am this morning carrying the @bluebirdgroup Block 2 FM2 satellites. The vehicle failed to insert the satellites into a nominal orbit.