Satellite Imagery: SpaceX Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch

Most notably, Maxar collected a dramatic image of the rocket and the astronauts flying toward space and high above the launch pad and the clouds at T-plus 120 seconds!

Maxar’s GeoEye-1 satellite collected the first view of the launch pad yesterday morning at 11:47AM EDT, approximately three and a half hours before launch.
Maxar’s WorldView-1 satellite subsequently collected an image of the launch pad at 3:18PM EDT, four minutes before launch.

Soon thereafter, at launch plus 120 seconds (3:24PM EDT), as WorldView-1 was flying south of Nicaragua, the satellite--from more than 1,300 miles away from the launch pad--collected a dramatic image that shows the Falcon 9 rocket in flight above the clouds with American astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley onboard as they were speeding toward orbit and their journey to the International Space Station (ISS).

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