The launch pads at Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center are in an unusually quiet stretch. As of Oct. 25, Launch Library 2 shows no more Florida orbital launches this month. The next two on the list are ULA's Vulcan carrying Amazon Leo satellites and a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying Northrop Grumman's NG-25 Cygnus cargo ship. Both are listed only for sometime in November, with no date set. ULA's mission list has not posted a date for the Vulcan flight.

So while we wait, here are three launches a Space Coast Wire affiliate photographed from around Brevard. Each photo was taken about two minutes after liftoff.

Artemis II: April 1, 2026

NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket left Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 1, according to NASA. On board the Orion spacecraft were NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. It was the first crewed mission of the Artemis program and the first crewed trip around the Moon in more than 50 years.

The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 8:07 p.m. EDT on April 10, NASA said. At their farthest point the four were 252,756 miles from Earth, farther than any people had ever traveled, breaking the distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.

The affiliate's photo shows the exhaust trail arcing high over the Indian River.

OneWeb on a Falcon 9: Dec. 8, 2022

At 5:27 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, according to SpaceX. SpaceX said it was the fourth flight of that first-stage booster. The company lists the mission as "OneWeb 1."

OneWeb, the satellite internet company, called it Launch 15. It was the company's 15th launch overall and its first with SpaceX, and all 40 satellites on board were deployed, OneWeb said in its announcement.

The launch came around sunset. In the affiliate's photo, the plume lights up gold in the darkening sky, and the engine's glow shows as a bright point above it.

Starlink 6-12 at night: Sept. 3, 2023

At 10:47 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023, a Falcon 9 carried 21 Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A, according to SpaceX. SpaceX said it was the 10th flight of that booster.

The photo shows the rocket as a bright streak above the palm fronds. It's soft, the way most handheld night-launch shots are.

All times are Eastern. Have launch photos you took yourself? We'd like to see them.