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

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

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

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

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

Photograph · Sam Kaplan for Interstellar Gateway

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

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

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A spectator photographs the horizon with a phone from a pier under a cloudy sky.

Photographing the horizon from the pier

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

Reid Wiseman in a blue NASA flight suit, smiling in sunglasses.

Reid Wiseman in a blue flight suit

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

Reid Wiseman in the orange launch and entry suit, looking to one side.

Reid Wiseman in an orange launch suit

Photograph · Sam Kaplan for Interstellar Gateway

A wide expanse of pale blue sky scattered with thin cloud, with the top of a steel lattice tower just entering the very bottom of the frame.

Sky above the tower

Video · Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System's core stage engines and booster nozzles at ignition, close in.

Space Launch System engine ignition, close up

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

The Space Launch System's core stage engines and booster nozzles at ignition, flame filling the frame.

Space Launch System ignition fills the frame

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

An orange core stage flanked by two white solid rocket boosters lifts off from a launch pad, driving a wall of white and grey smoke out across the ground. A water tower stands at the right edge of the frame.

Space Launch System off the pad

Photograph · Sam Kaplan for Interstellar Gateway

Spectators along a pier at a waterfront viewing site in late light.

Spectators on the pier in late light

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

Stacked and lit at the base, holding still in the last of the blue light

Video · Interstellar Gateway

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stand beside their launch tower under a blue sky filled with tall white cloud, with white vapour venting around the base of the vehicle.

Stacked and venting on the pad under a big sky

Video · Interstellar Gateway

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stand on the launch mount beside a tall steel launch tower, venting white vapour at the base, with the pair reflected in a flat stretch of water in the foreground under a pale blue sky.

Stacked on the mount, doubled in the water

Video · Interstellar Gateway

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stand on the pad beside the launch tower, venting vapour along the vehicle, with water spray rising at the base under a tall bank of cumulus.

Stacked, venting, and running water at the base of the pad

Video · Interstellar Gateway

A tall stainless-steel Starship vehicle stands on a legged launch mount beside a lattice launch tower with its lifting arms raised, under a clear blue sky. The lower half of the vehicle is bare bright metal and the upper section is dark against the sky.

Standing on the mount beside the tower, under clear blue sky

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

Starbase at night: the launch tower and pad floodlit, the "Gateway to Mars" sign lit in the foreground.

Starbase at night

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

Starship stacked on the launch mount at Starbase at night, the tower floodlit.

Starship at Starbase at night

Photograph · Groundtruth for Interstellar Gateway

Starship and Super Heavy on the launch mount at Starbase at sunrise, reflected in standing water.

Starship at sunrise

Photograph · Groundtruth for Interstellar Gateway

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.

Starship climbing out on a violet plume

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy climbing away from the launch mount beside a lattice tower, its base wrapped in a vast orange fireball and dark billowing exhaust under a blue, cloud-streaked sky.

Starship climbs away from the mount, wrapped in flame and smoke

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

Cinematic video recap using several Interstellar Gateway on-site camera angles from Starship Flight 8 at Starbase.

Starship Flight 8 — IGW Cinematic Recap

Starship's nose and forward flaps from below, the heat-shield side dark.

Starship from below

Photograph · Groundtruth for Interstellar Gateway

The full Starship stack on the launch mount, looking up from the base.

Starship, full stack

Photograph · Groundtruth for Interstellar Gateway

Starship lifts off from Starbase, clearing the tower on a bright plume.

Starship lifts off from Starbase

Photograph · Sam Kaplan for Interstellar Gateway

Starship on the launch mount, looking straight up the stainless hull.

Starship, looking up

Photograph · Groundtruth for Interstellar Gateway

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy stands on its launch mount beside the tall lattice launch tower, white vapour billowing across the pad below it. Flat scrub and grassland fill the foreground under a clear blue sky.

Starship on the mount, venting across the pad

Video · Interstellar Gateway