The Eastern Range

News/Information on all Space and Rocket based activities. Ad Astra

[The Eastern Range @TheEasternRange]

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

[Cameron Schwartz @nyoomtm]

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

[Cameron Schwartz @nyoomtm]

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

[Gavin Richmond @tweetsiphotos]

Photos from ~5000ft of the aftermath from last night's hotfire anomaly involving New Glenn at SLC-36.

📸 @LaunchHeavenX

[The Eastern Range @TheEasternRange]

“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

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

TODAY. 🚀

ARTEMIS II. AROUND THE MOON FOR ALL HUMANITY.

[The Eastern Range @TheEasternRange]

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket Never Tell Me The Odds lands on recovery ship Jacklyn.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

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.

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

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 🇺🇸

[SIGNAL : noise @BocasBrain]

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.

[The Eastern Range @TheEasternRange]

@blueorigin Still waiting to see @realhomerhickam fly aboard New Shepard.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch 28 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/JjPXHRzPF9

[Brevard EOC @BrevardEOC]

4/24/25 8:33 PM | We have activated our launch operations support team in preparation for the SpaceX Falcon9 launch. Window: 9:32 PM - 1:32 AM

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

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

[Brevard EOC @BrevardEOC]

4/21/25 7:45 PM | We have activated our launch operations support team in preparation for the SpaceX Falcon9 launch. Window: 8:43 PM - 8:53 PM

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/VDTcQIFE8N

[Brevard EOC @BrevardEOC]

4/13/25 10:50 PM | We have activated our launch operations support team in preparation for the SpaceX Falcon9 launch. Window: 11:50 PM-1:59 AM.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

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

[The Eastern Range @TheEasternRange]

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