We would like to highlight a service for anyone in or around Titusville, Kennedy Space Center, or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station: Launch Information Service and Amateur Television System (LISATS).
This is a free service that can be found online, with a handheld scanner, or any operator with an Amateur Radio License.
The launch broadcast typically starts an hour before liftoff for SpaceX Falcon 9 satellite launches and between 2 and 4 hours for crewed launches with feeds from the launch providers.
This is also a valuable resource for launch photographers to get an instant countdown and call outs.
Amateur Radio information can be found here:
https://t.co/Frhzlw0YjD
Listen online:
https://t.co/otdwqjyvfe
For handheld scanners tune into frequency 146.940.
#amateurradio #LISATS #broadcast #launch #kennedyspacecenter #spaceforce #florida #SpaceX #capecanaveral #NASA #blueorigin #Spacecoast
A closer look at the launch mount area and the tower collapse, where you can see what remains of the strongback and the carnage of that tower collapsing.
My heart goes out to the entire Blue family. This is absolutely heartbreaking.
📸 Me for @WeAreSpaceScout
First look at SLC-36 after New Glenn's explosive anomaly last night.
The debris of the second tower appears to be spread across the right side of the pad and the entire area is scorched. The HIF appears ok. Absolutely insane.
📸 Me for @WeAreSpaceScout
“Bob, this is Gene, and I’m on the surface; and, as I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I’d like to just [say] what I believe history will record. That America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return: with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.��
— Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Commander
(The last words spoken by a human on the Moon, December 1972)
53 years later…
Earthset.
Captured by the crew of Artemis II as they flew around the Moon.
We have returned. 🌕
#ArtemisII #Moon #NASA
NG-2 Update: New Glenn is ready to launch. However, due to highly elevated solar activity and its potential effects on the ESCAPADE spacecraft, NASA is postponing launch until space weather conditions improve. We are currently assessing opportunities to establish our next launch window based on forecasted space weather and range availability.
Thank you, Mr. President @POTUS, for this opportunity. It will be an honor to serve my country under your leadership. I am also very grateful to @SecDuffy, who skillfully oversees @NASA alongside his many other responsibilities.
The support from the space-loving community has been overwhelming. I am not sure how I earned the trust of so many, but I will do everything I can to live up to those expectations.
To the innovators building the orbital economy, to the scientists pursuing breakthrough discoveries and to dreamers across the world eager for a return to the Moon and the grand journey beyond--these are the most exciting times since the dawn of the space age-- and I truly believe the future we have all been waiting for will soon become reality.
And to the best and brightest at NASA, and to all the commercial and international partners, we have an extraordinary responsibility--but the clock is running. The journey is never easy, but it is time to inspire the world once again to achieve the near-impossible--to undertake and accomplish big, bold endeavors in space...and when we do, we will make life better here at home and challenge the next generation to go even further.
NASA will never be a caretaker of history--but will forever make history.
Godspeed, President Donald J. Trump, and Godspeed NASA, as America leads the greatest adventure in human history 🇺🇸
Everything got wiped out at Massey's. This year's SuperHeavy launch schedule is concluded. Unless Pad 2 is adapted for Ship static fire or alternative found.
Two Falcon 9 boosters also returned to LZ-1 and LZ-2 after successfully launching our third Dragon mission of the year from pad 39A and our third Bandwagon rideshare mission from pad 40
Falcon 9 lifts off from Florida, adding 21 @Starlink satellites to the constellation and completing our 400th overall mission with a flight-proven booster approximately eight years after our first successful reflight
Tonight’s Pink Full Moon, or Paschal Moon, lights up as spring’s first full moon! It’s the smallest of 2025, occurring at apogee—when the moon’s farthest from Earth. 🌕 #pinkmoon#space#astronomy