IGW // THE ARCHIVE

The IGW archive.

Photographs and clips from IGW's own coverage.

A Starship vehicle climbing away from its pad on a brilliant violet exhaust plume, condensation streaming back along its stainless flank and black-tiled nose and flaps, above huge clouds of orange- and grey-lit smoke.

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A launch arcs over the beach at night in a long exposure, the trail bending downrange.

A launch over the beach, long exposure

A close view of the base of a three-core Falcon Heavy at the moment of liftoff, the engine clusters of all three cores burning into a wall of flame and exhaust beside the launch structure.

All three cores lit as Falcon Heavy comes off the pad

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy climbing on a bright column of flame well above its launch tower, with a wide sheet of dust and pale smoke rolling out across flat coastal ground and water in the foreground.

Away and climbing, dust rolling out across the flats

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy in powered flight against a deep blue sky, seen head-on with the ship's forward and aft flaps in silhouette and a violet plume streaming from the ring of lit engines at the base.

Full stack in flight, engines lit against a clean blue sky

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A stone monument with a stainless sculpture beside the water, palms behind it.

A waterfront monument reflected in the water

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy climbing on a bright column of flame well above its launch tower, with a wide sheet of dust and pale smoke rolling out across flat coastal ground and water in the foreground.

Away and climbing, dust rolling out across the flats

NASA umbrellas and cameras set up on a pier beside the water.

Cameras and NASA umbrellas beside the water

Christina Koch in a blue NASA flight suit, smiling in sunglasses.

Christina Koch in a blue flight suit

Christina Koch in the orange launch and entry suit, helmet ring open, smiling.

Christina Koch in an orange launch suit

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy rising just past the top of its lattice launch tower in daylight, engines burning behind a rolling bank of white exhaust against a deep blue sky.

Clearing the tower in full daylight

Close view of a rocket's engine section at liftoff: bell nozzles clustered under the core stage between two solid rocket boosters, all pouring brilliant orange flame past the launch structure into a dark sky.

Core engines and boosters at full power, right off the pad

A low view along the edge of a paved road at dusk, dry grass and stones sloping down to water on the right. Vehicle lights and a distant walking figure are visible up the road, with a large dark sign carrying white lettering beyond them.

Dusk on the road out, water on one side and lights up ahead

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy fire their engines beside the launch tower in daylight, flame at the base and a wide bank of white exhaust rolling out across flat ground under a partly cloudy blue sky.

Engines lit, exhaust rolling out across the flats

A tight crop of a rocket's engine section in early ascent, with a long pink and violet exhaust plume streaming down the frame. A lattice lightning tower and taut guy wires stand against the pale twilight sky at right.

Engines lit, plume running long against the twilight sky

Spectators along a waterfront under flags, umbrellas up, waiting for a launch.

Flags and umbrellas along the waterfront

The base of a rocket at ignition seen at night: four bell-shaped engine nozzles firing long white plumes, ice and debris shedding from the stage above, with the steel pad structure at right and dark and orange-lit smoke boiling up from below.

Four engines lit, the moment the pad vanishes in smoke

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stand beside the launch tower, pale with frost down the tanks, with white vapour and spray billowing across the base of the pad, seen across a flat green plain under a clear blue sky.

Frost on the full stack, vapour rolling across the pad

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy in powered flight against a deep blue sky, seen head-on with the ship's forward and aft flaps in silhouette and a violet plume streaming from the ring of lit engines at the base.

Full stack in flight, engines lit against a clean blue sky

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stand on a raised launch mount beside a tall tower with catch arms, white vapour venting along the base, seen from a distance across flat scrubland under a clear daylight sky.

Full stack venting on the mount under a clear sky

A long black wall lettered GATEWAY TO MARS stands beyond a flooded flat, with a wading bird in the shallow brown water, and white cylindrical tanks, an orange crane and a stainless vehicle section rising behind it.

GATEWAY TO MARS, across the water

A long black wall carries the words GATEWAY TO MARS in tall white letters, seen across a wide stretch of shallow, still water and low scrub. Stainless tanks, an orange lattice crane boom and a domed stainless structure stand behind it under a flat grey sky, and a small shorebird stands in the shallows in the foreground.

GATEWAY TO MARS, read across the water

Jeremy Hansen in a blue flight suit with the Canadian flag on the shoulder.

Jeremy Hansen in a blue flight suit

Jeremy Hansen in the orange launch and entry suit, the Canadian Space Agency patch on his chest.

Jeremy Hansen in an orange launch suit

The nose and upper hull of a Starship, silhouetted against a bright blue sky, stand beside the top of a steel launch tower and its arms, with tall white cumulus cloud piled up behind.

Nose and tower against a bank of piled-up cumulus

A group of onlookers stands on a dirt roadside beside parked cars and a vehicle with flashing lights, watching a stainless-steel rocket stage on a wheeled transporter, while photographers work from tripods further along the verge under a low sun.

Onlookers and tripods along the roadside beside a rocket stage on its transporter

Orange core, twin boosters, tower alongside — waiting on the pad at blue hour

A calm waterfront basin under a blue sky with broken cloud, its stone-walled banks lined with street lamps and palm trees. A white mid-rise building and a tall triangular metal structure stand beyond the banks, a scattered crowd is gathered along the far side, and the foreground is in deep shade.

Palms and lamps along a calm waterfront basin

Spectators spread across a sandy lot with the sun low on the horizon, several holding phones up to film, with traffic cones, parked cars, camera tripods and agave plants around them under a wide orange and blue sky.

Phones up across the sand as the sun sits on the horizon