IGW // PHOTOGRAPHY

Spaceflight, in frame.

Photographs from IGW's own coverage — launches, vehicles and the pads they fly from.

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

Flags and umbrellas along the waterfront

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

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

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn 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

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

Jeremy Hansen in a blue flight suit

Photograph · Brandon M. Wynn for Interstellar Gateway

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

Jeremy Hansen in an orange launch suit

Photograph · Sam Kaplan for Interstellar Gateway

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

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

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

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 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

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway

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

Photograph · K Enagonio for Interstellar Gateway