{"id":12971,"date":"2019-08-30T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-releases-rocketcam-video-from-atlas-5-launch\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T10:57:20","slug":"ula-releases-rocketcam-video-from-atlas-5-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-releases-rocketcam-video-from-atlas-5-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA releases \u2018rocketcam\u2019 video from Atlas 5 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AN0kyb3-ECc\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>United Launch Alliance has released views from cameras mounted aboard the company\u2019s most recent Atlas 5 rocket launch showing the rocket\u2019s blastoff from Cape Canaveral at dawn Aug. 8 with a U.S. Air Force communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras captured spectacular video of the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad at 6:13 a.m. EDT (1013 GMT) on Aug. 8. The Atlas 5 arced toward the east over the Atlantic Ocean with the Air Force\u2019s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The on-board camera views show the Atlas 5\u2019s five strap-on solid rocket boosters burning out and jettisoning, followed by separation of the rocket\u2019s Swiss-made payload shroud as the launch vehicle climbed into sunlight. The Atlas booster shut down its Russian-built RD-180 engine moments later, then released to allow the Centaur upper stage\u2019s Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 engine to ignite.<\/p>\n<p>The video ends with a view of the deployment of the Air Force\u2019s AEHF 5 satellite nearly six hours after launch, on the way to a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 8 mission marked the 80th flight of ULA\u2019s Atlas 5 rocket since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the Aug. 8 launch.<\/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>United Launch Alliance has released views from cameras mounted aboard the company\u2019s most recent Atlas 5 rocket launch showing the rocket\u2019s blastoff from Cape Canaveral at dawn Aug. 8 with a U.S. Air Force communications satellite. The cameras captured spectacular video of the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad [&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":[2301,2302,2537,724,2538,1695,1392,1708],"class_list":["post-12971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a2100","tag-aehf","tag-aehf-5","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-083","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-centaur","tag-complex-41"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971"}],"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=12971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}