SpaceFlightInsider.com was formed under the company name of The SpaceFlight Group © in September of 2013 in an effort to combine the best elements of the numerous space-related blogs and websites that are on the internet. With the website itself by-and-large complete, we are now turning our attention to providing the public with the stunning imagery that is generated every time a rocket launches into the black of space.

The best of these images are produced by what are known as remote cameras. These triggers are activated by the incredible sound or light generated by these powerful machines allowing the cameras to produce the stunning images that highlight the thrilling nature of space exploration.

SpaceFlight Insider currently has assets to field one remote camera station – but to adequately accomplish full coverage and redundancy - we need to field a minimum of four (ideally there would be four with others set up at other locations around the launch sites at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia).

Each remote station will consist of a solid aluminum tripod, housing, still camera and possibly a video recorder.

Each of the remote stations will have everything it needs to capture still and video imagery from every launch that takes place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo Credit: Mike Howard / SpaceFlight Insider

The team of photographers assembled under SpaceFlight Insider are some of the best in the business - they only need the resources to be made available to them to produce one of the best launch photography infrastructures in the world.

We are asking for a mere $1,000 so as to provide us with the camera equipment needed to field three remote camera stations. This amount will allow us to complete a baseline from which we can flesh out the full system as it is currently envisioned (we need to acquire heavy-duty tripods, electronics and support equipment as well as have the camera box housings produced). With this amount we can provide the rewards as described with no issues, but we will still have a ways to go before the complete system is as it is planned is finished.

If this campaign can reach $2,400 - we will be able to completely furnish four boxes with camera equipment, tripods, housings and other elements which will be incorporated into each station as well as provide the required support equipment to the two stations currently being developed at Wallops Flight Facility. In short, if we reach this "stretch goal" we can produce the complete system right from the start.