{"id":12459,"date":"2020-05-20T17:48:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-lifts-off-with-u-s-militarys-x-37b-spaceplane\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T17:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:48:14","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-lifts-off-with-u-s-militarys-x-37b-spaceplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-lifts-off-with-u-s-militarys-x-37b-spaceplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket lifts off with U.S. military\u2019s X-37B spaceplane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launching the sixth mission of the U.S. military\u2019s super-secret X-37B spaceplane program, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off Sunday morning from Cape Canaveral and successfully delivered its clandestine cargo to orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket launched from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9:14 a.m. EDT (1314 GMT) Sunday, a day later than planned after gusty winds scrubbed a launch attempt Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Riding the power of its Russian-made RD-180 main engine, the Atlas 5 flew in a rarely-used configuration with an enlarged payload shroud and no solid rocket boosters. Sunday\u2019s launch was just the seventh time that particular Atlas 5 configuration flew among the the 84 Atlas 5 missions overall to date.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full launch story for details.<\/p>\n<p>The imagery below comes from ULA\u2019s launch highlights video, and from ULA and Spaceflight Now photographers stationed around Cape Canaveral to cover Sunday\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VW4609H11C8\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45270\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45270\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-3-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45271\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45271\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k-678x509.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906124758_f2cfc5d0dc_k-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45272\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45272\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-9-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45273\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45273\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45273\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-11.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-11-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-11-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-11-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45274\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45274\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638371_7a07de7eca_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638371_7a07de7eca_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638371_7a07de7eca_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638371_7a07de7eca_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638371_7a07de7eca_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45275\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45275\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906123453_a68cb7c2e5_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906123453_a68cb7c2e5_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906123453_a68cb7c2e5_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906123453_a68cb7c2e5_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906123453_a68cb7c2e5_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45276\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45276\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638146_3fb9896cc1_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638146_3fb9896cc1_k.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638146_3fb9896cc1_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638146_3fb9896cc1_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906638146_3fb9896cc1_k-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45277\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45277\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906942107_d35103f7d7_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906942107_d35103f7d7_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906942107_d35103f7d7_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906942107_d35103f7d7_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906942107_d35103f7d7_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45278\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45278\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906940627_818d70116b_3k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906940627_818d70116b_3k.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906940627_818d70116b_3k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906940627_818d70116b_3k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49906940627_818d70116b_3k-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45279\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45279\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49904816388_bd496590cb_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49904816388_bd496590cb_k.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49904816388_bd496590cb_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49904816388_bd496590cb_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/49904816388_bd496590cb_k-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45280\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45280\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-16.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-16-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-16-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45157\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45157\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf-7-itl-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf-7-itl-1-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf-7-itl-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf-7-itl-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf-7-itl-1-1-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45281\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45281\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-20.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-20-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-20-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ussf_7_sfn-20-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>Launching the sixth mission of the U.S. military\u2019s super-secret X-37B spaceplane program, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off Sunday morning from Cape Canaveral and successfully delivered its clandestine cargo to orbit. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket launched from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9:14 a.m. EDT (1314 [&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":[1056,724,2219,670,1708,1775,2220,25],"class_list":["post-12459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-force-research-laboratory","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-081","tag-boeing","tag-complex-41","tag-electric-propulsion","tag-falconsat-8","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459"}],"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=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}