{"id":11657,"date":"2021-05-25T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-new-rocketcam-footage-from-last-weeks-atlas-5-launch\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T19:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:10:27","slug":"watch-new-rocketcam-footage-from-last-weeks-atlas-5-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-new-rocketcam-footage-from-last-weeks-atlas-5-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch new \u2018rocketcam\u2019 footage from last week\u2019s Atlas 5 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xmkjlLWDpq4\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>United Launch Alliance has released new video from cameras mounted aboard an Atlas 5 rocket that lifted off May 18 from Cape Canaveral to haul a U.S. military missile-detection satellite into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The video begins with a down-facing camera view showing the Atlas 5 taking off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Atlas\u2019s kerosene-fueled RD-180 main engine and twin solid-fueled boosters combined to produce about 1.6 million pounds of thrust to power the 194-foot-tall (59-meter) rocket off the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 1:37 p.m. EDT (1737 GMT) May 18 to begin the first Atlas 5 flight of the year, and 87th Atlas 5 mission since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The payload on top of the Atlas 5 rocket was the U.S. Space Force\u2019s fifth Space Based Infrared System, or SBIRS, satellite designed to detect and track missile launches that could threaten U.S. and allied forces. The billion-dollar SBIRS GEO 5 satellite was built by Lockheed Martin.<\/p>\n<p>The down-facing \u201crocketcam\u201d view shows burnout of the two solid rocket boosters, followed about 40 seconds later by jettison of the twin strap-on motors to fall into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas 5\u2019s first stage then performs a roll maneuver before shutting down its engine about four minutes into the mission. After stage separation, the Centaur upper stage lights its RL10 engine to continue accelerating into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The clamshell-like payload shroud on top of the Atlas 5 rocket jettisons moments later, once the rocket reaches an altitude above the dense, lower layers of the atmosphere. The video then jumps ahead to deployment of the SBIRS GEO 5 spacecraft about 42 minutes after launch, while the Centaur upper stage was flying in darkness over the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff United Launch Alliance has released new video from cameras mounted aboard an Atlas 5 rocket that lifted off May 18 from Cape Canaveral to haul a U.S. military missile-detection satellite into orbit. The video begins with a down-facing camera view showing the Atlas 5 taking off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}