{"id":12284,"date":"2020-08-05T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-catapults-into-space-with-mars-rover\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T10:39:02","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-catapults-into-space-with-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-catapults-into-space-with-mars-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket catapults into space with Mars rover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carrying a $2.7 billion NASA mission to Mars, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off July 30 from Cape Canaveral and fired into a summer sky powered by four powerful solid rocket boosters and a kerosene-burning main engine.<\/p>\n

The Atlas 5 blasted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) July 30 and rocketed away from the Florida spaceport with some 2.3 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n

The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket arced over the Atlantic Ocean to the east from Cape Canaveral, surpassed the speed of sound in 35 seconds, and shed its four strap-on solid rocket boosters just before the two-minute mark of the flight. The first stage\u2019s kerosene-fed RD-180 fired for nearly four-and-a-half minutes before dropping away, allowing the rocket\u2019s Centaur upper stage to accelerate NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover on an escape trajectory toward Mars.<\/p>\n

The robotic Perseverance rover is the centerpiece of NASA\u2019s Mars 2020 mission designed to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n

The launch July 30 marked the 85th flight of an Atlas 5 rocket since August 2002, and the fourth Atlas 5 launch of the year.<\/p>\n

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

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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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