{"id":11956,"date":"2020-12-15T23:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-delta-4-heavy-rocket-lights-up-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T23:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T15:58:30","slug":"photos-delta-4-heavy-rocket-lights-up-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-delta-4-heavy-rocket-lights-up-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Delta 4-Heavy rocket lights up Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photos show the fiery liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 10, riding three pillars of flame from its hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engines.<\/p>\n

The ULA heavy-lifter took off from pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:09 p.m. EST on Dec. 10 (0109 GMT on Dec. 11) with a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government\u2019s spy satellite agency.<\/p>\n

The Delta 4-Heavy\u2019s three Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A main engines produced 2.1 million pounds of thrust, equivalent to 51 million horsepower, to power the launcher off the pad.<\/p>\n

The rocket\u2019s upper stage delivered the mission\u2019s top secret cargo to its targeted orbit thousands of miles above Earth around six hours later. ULA confirmed the mission was a success.<\/p>\n

The launch marked the 12th flight of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket since 2004, and the 41st flight of ULA\u2019s Delta 4 rocket family overall.<\/p>\n

Read our full report for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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These photos show the fiery liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on Dec. 10, riding three pillars of flame from its hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engines. The ULA heavy-lifter took off from pad 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:09 p.m. EST on Dec. 10 (0109 GMT on […]<\/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":[864,771,1962,1963,1688,1408,25,257],"class_list":["post-11956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerojet-rocketdyne","tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","tag-complex-37","tag-delta-385","tag-delta-4","tag-delta-4-heavy","tag-launch","tag-military-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956"}],"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=11956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}