Minotaur rocket launches from Virginia

BPCooperBPCooper Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
edited December 20, 2006 in Holy Macro
A small 69 foot Minotaur rocket places two satellites into orbit at sunrise Dec. 16, from Wallops Island, Virginia. It is the first successful mission from a pad there since 1985.

Minotaur_TacSat.jpg

Minotaur_TacSat_2.jpg

Minotaur_TacSat_8.jpg

Minotaur_TacSat_9.jpg

I used only film on the remote cameras this time and they can be viewed here:
http://www.launchphotography.com/Minotaur_TacSat.html
-Ben
http://www.LaunchPhotography.com

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  • mushymushy Registered Users Posts: 643 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2006
    The first shot is stunning, nice colours and nice silhouette.
    May I take your picture?
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2006
    BPCooper wrote:
    A small 69 foot Minotaur rocket places two satellites into orbit at sunrise Dec. 16, from Wallops Island, Virginia. It is the first successful mission from a pad there since 1985.

    I used only film on the remote cameras this time and they can be viewed here:
    http://www.launchphotography.com/Minotaur_TacSat.html

    Ohhhhh your right into these Rockets and Ships aren't you :D
    69 feet just doesn't sound small to me :D anything larger than a fire cracker is big in my book nod.gif

    Good series BP ........ thanks for sharing....... Skippy (Australia)
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2006
    another great series love your photos
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  • BPCooperBPCooper Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2006
    Thanks. For the guys at Wallops this was "huge" but for us who know the space business and are used to Cape Canaveral or Vandenberg, this was tiny by comparison :-) A bottle rocket maybe!
    -Ben
    http://www.LaunchPhotography.com
  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,133 moderator
    edited December 18, 2006
    I doubt you find the word "Estes" anywhere on that baby.

    Excellent!

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,940 moderator
    edited December 20, 2006
    Cool shots! I like the lighter last shot.

    Do you think you'll ever make it out to Baikanor to see one of the Russian
    Proton rocket launches? That must be something spectacular to see.
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  • BPCooperBPCooper Registered Users Posts: 134 Major grins
    edited December 20, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    Cool shots! I like the lighter last shot.

    Do you think you'll ever make it out to Baikanor to see one of the Russian
    Proton rocket launches? That must be something spectacular to see.

    I would very much love to go see a manned Soyuz launch (and hope to eventually), and an unmanned Proton as well. But neither can compare to the shuttle in shear power.

    The one thing about watching in Russia is you can get closer (dangerously close some might say).
    -Ben
    http://www.LaunchPhotography.com
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited December 20, 2006
    Very nice. I can see why the Wallops folks were excited. I had no idea anything was launched in VA.
    Sid.
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  • DJ-S1DJ-S1 Registered Users Posts: 2,303 Major grins
    edited December 20, 2006
    That thing looks like a banana losing it's peel when it launched! rolleyes1.gif
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