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 stainless steel Starship upper stage rides upright on a low multi-wheeled transporter along a paved road with a sandy shoulder, towering over the crowd watching from the roadside. Spectators film it on phones and tripod-mounted cameras between traffic cones, and a brown roadside marker stands at the left of the frame.

Starship rolls by, and everybody stops to film it

A Starship stacked on a Super Heavy booster stands beside a tall steel launch tower in low golden light, the ship's black heat-shield tiles facing the camera and the booster sitting on its launch mount.

Starship stacked and standing at the tower

A fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy standing on its launch mount, the dark upper stage and its forward flaps silhouetted against a hazy sky with the sun flaring at the left edge. The launch tower's steelwork rises alongside, and flat grassland runs out to storage tanks on the distant horizon.

Starship stacked on the mount, waiting on the tower

A dark steel lattice arm juts in from the right edge of the frame against an otherwise empty, clear blue sky.

Steel arm against clear blue, nothing else in the sky

Looking steeply up the flank of a Starship upper stage, its hexagonal black heat-shield tiles filling the frame, a forward flap jutting out at the top against a grey overcast sky.

Straight up the tiled flank of Starship, under grey sky

The sun rising over water beneath a bank of cloud, its reflection running toward the camera.

Sunrise over the water

The engines of a Super Heavy booster firing, seen from below against cloud.

Super Heavy engines firing

A Super Heavy booster with its engines lit, exhaust wrapped around the aft end.

Super Heavy, engines lit

The grid fins of a Super Heavy booster folded against the stainless hull.

Super Heavy grid fins

A bare stainless-steel Super Heavy booster standing alone on its launch mount beside the launch tower under a deep blue sky, mirrored in shallow water across the foreground.

Super Heavy on the mount, mirrored in the water below

A Super Heavy booster descends toward the launch tower at sunset, engines lit.

Super Heavy returns to the tower

The Artemis logo on the Vehicle Assembly Building

NASA's Space Launch System on its mobile launcher at night, floodlit, Orion at the top of the stack.

The floodlit Space Launch System with Orion

A fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy standing on its launch mount beside the lattice tower, seen across flat scrub and sandy ground, with shallow water and wetland flats beyond and tall pale buildings on the distant horizon.

The full stack on the mount, tower alongside

A stacked Starship and Super Heavy standing beside its launch tower under a clear blue sky, with a dark sign in the right foreground reading PRIVATE PROPERTY, NO TRESPASSING.

The full stack on the pad, seen past a private property sign

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher at night in a long exposure, streaked with light.

The Space Launch System at night, long exposure

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher in daylight, a water tower beside it.

The Space Launch System beside the water tower

The Space Launch System clears the tower, exhaust pouring from the boosters and core stage.

The Space Launch System clears the tower

A rocket with an orange core stage and twin white solid rocket boosters climbing off the pad on a bright column of flame, with a white crew spacecraft on the nose and a billowing wall of exhaust cloud below. A yellow emergency egress basket hangs on the pad's slidewire cables to the left of the vehicle.

The Space Launch System climbs off the pad in early light

The Space Launch System climbs past a United States flag, its exhaust column bright against a clear sky.

The Space Launch System climbs past the flag

The Space Launch System climbs on a column of flame, boosters burning, the exhaust cloud spreading below.

The Space Launch System lifts off

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher in daylight, seen from the front.

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher, front view

The Space Launch System on its mobile launcher seen from a distance across water and scrub, lightning towers either side.

The Space Launch System on the pad, from across the water

The Space Launch System standing fully stacked inside an assembly building high bay: an orange core stage flanked by two white solid rocket boosters, topped by a white crew stage carrying NASA and ESA markings and a US flag, surrounded on both sides by tiers of steel work platforms and lights.

The Space Launch System stacked in the high bay, boosters flanking the orange core