Jonathan Shaban, Spectrum News 13 Photojournalist

05/09/2026

Tornado Warning

05/09/2026

Update 9:06 PM
Acreage updated from 4 to 10 acres. Containment updated from 70% to 100%.

7:15PM
Acreage has been updated from 10 back to 4. 70% contained.

5:45PM
Acreage has been updated from 4 to 10.

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Fire crews are responding to brushfire in Southern Brevard. Smoke can be smelled in SE Palm Bay along with hazy conditions along the roads.

05/09/2026

NASA’s Artemis III astronauts visited Kennedy Space Center, touring SpaceX’s Starship operations at Launch Complex 39A.

The visit provided the crew with a firsthand look at the infrastructure being developed to support Starship and its potential role in NASA’s future Artemis missions.

Artemis III is currently planned as a crewed demonstration mission in low Earth orbit, where the astronauts will test critical rendezvous and docking capabilities between NASA’s Orion spacecraft and commercial human landing systems being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin. The mission is currently targeting mid-2027.

04/09/2026

Growth in Titusville!

It's official: The fencing has gone up! A permit has been issued for site work for the construction of a plaza that will be home to Chick-fil-A, Zaxby's & Jersey Mike's.

02/09/2026

02/09/2026

Blue Origin has been selected by NASA to develop and deliver a Mars Telecommunications Orbiter (MTO) as part of NASA’s planned Mars Telecommunications Network, a dedicated high-speed communications relay network for the Red Planet.

MTO will be based on Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft platform, combining solar-electric and chemical propulsion to deliver communications and other infrastructure to Mars ahead of future human missions.

The project is part of NASA’s broader Moon to Mars strategy and is intended to strengthen communications capabilities for future robotic and human exploration of Mars.

Images - Blue Origin

02/09/2026

SpaceX’s massive Starship Gigabay is taking shape at Kennedy Space Center.

At 380 feet tall, 815,000 square feet and 46.5 million cubic feet of interior space, Gigabay is massive and is changing the landscape at the already busy spaceport. The exterior is now nearly complete.

The facility will support Starship and Super Heavy vehicles up to 266 feet tall, with 24 work cells for assembly and refurbishment, ground-level and elevated work platforms, top-floor work and meeting space, and cranes capable of lifting 400 US tons.

The facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2026, significantly expanding SpaceX’s Starship production and operations footprint on the Space Coast.

(These “public” views are only accessible during bus tours from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.)

02/09/2026

SpaceX plans new Starship testing facility at KSC

SpaceX is planning a new facility at Kennedy Space Center that would support Starship and Super Heavy testing, including static-fire tests.

The project, called SpaceX Ignition, is planned along Schwartz Road in the Roberts Road area. The environmental permit application describes a commercial facility with access roads, stormwater systems, utilities and related site improvements.

The development covers roughly 55 acres of a larger 101-acre parcel and would include a dedicated static-test stand and supporting infrastructure.

NASA is listed as the landowner, while SpaceX is the applicant and operator.

The project would add another major piece to SpaceX's growing Starship infrastructure at KSC, potentially allowing vehicles and engines to undergo testing before being transported to Launch Complex 39A.

The permit is still under environmental review, and the application does not provide a construction schedule.

*Images below show the project site location at Kennedy Space Center, along with SpaceX’s static-fire test stands at the Massey Outpost test site near Starbase, Texas, where Starship upper-stage engines are tested.

02/09/2026

Artemis IV Boattail Offload and Transport

NASA’s Artemis IV SLS (Space Launch System) core stage boat-tail, covered in a protective blue tarp, arrives inside the NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. Manufactured at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, the boat-tail is a fairing-like structure that protects the bottom end of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket core stage and RS-25 engines.

NASA/Ben Smegelsky

02/09/2026

NASA Artemis III Booster Stacking

During integration operations inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the NASA “worm” is visible on the left and right center center solid rocket booster segments for the Artemis III SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on the mobile launcher inside High Bay 3 on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026.

The twin boosters, comprising of five segments each manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, will provide more than 75 percent of the SLS rocket’s total thrust at launch. The Artemis III mission will launch crew in the Orion spacecraft on top of the SLS rocket to test rendezvous and docking capabilities between Orion and commercial spacecraft needed to land astronauts on the Moon.

NASA/Clayton Rougelot