SpaceX Telstar 19 VANTAGE

Lightning strikes to the west of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's South Gate before remote camera setup of the SpaceX Telstar 19 Vantage mission to GTO.

Close-up view of the Telstar 19 VANTAGE payload fairing hours before launch atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Hi-res panorama of SpaceX's second Block V Falcon 9 standing on SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Members of the media scurrying about Space Launch Complex-40 to set up their remote launch pad cameras like chickens with their heads cut off in advance of the Telstar 19 VANTAGE mission.

A synthwave r/Outrun-style sunset over the Florida Space Coast.

Nighttime...SLC-40 artificial pad lighting illuminates the horizon and up into the sky.

Daytime!!! Falcon 9 lights up the night in this long exposure photo.

Longer exposure photograph of the Falcon 9 ascending into orbit.

Falcon 9 lifting off from SLC-40, wreathed in condensation from super-chilled liquid oxygen in its fuel tanks.

Falcon 9 ascending above a palm tree located on SLC-40, wreathed in condensation from super-chilled LOX (liquid oxygen) and RP-1 (rocket propellant - 1)in its fuel tanks.

Falcon 9 lifting off from SLC-40, wreathed in condensation from super-chilled liquid oxygen in its fuel tanks.

Falcon 9 ascending above a palm tree located on SLC-40, wreathed in condensation from super-chilled LOX (liquid oxygen) and RP-1 (rocket propellant - 1)in its fuel tanks.

Moody black/white view of liftoff from the ITL Causeway on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The 2nd Block V iteration of the Falcon 9 rocket (first from SLC-40) clearing the tower.

A wicked view of the Falcon 9 nearing the supersonic regime of flight, creating condensation which instantly freezes and luminesces in the rocket's brighter-than-the-sun exhaust.