{"id":13006,"date":"2019-08-15T23:29:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-blasts-off-with-u-s-air-force-communications-payload\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T23:29:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:29:51","slug":"photos-atlas-5-blasts-off-with-u-s-air-force-communications-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-blasts-off-with-u-s-air-force-communications-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 blasts off with U.S. Air Force communications payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 8 with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite, the second launch from Florida\u2019s Coast in a span of less than 35 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 launcher lifted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:13 a.m. EDT (1013 GMT) on Aug. 8. The Atlas 5\u2019s kerosene-fueled first stage RD-180 engine and five strap-on solid rocket motors produced some 2.6 million pounds of thrust to propel the launcher off the pad.<\/p>\n<p>Around five-and-a-half hours later, the rocket\u2019s Centaur upper stage deployed the Lockheed Martin-built AEHF 5 satellite into a high-energy geostationary transfer orbit. AEHF 5 will join four similar jam-resistant, secure voice, video and data relay satellites in the military\u2019s fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas 5 launch occurred less than 35 hours after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from a neighboring launch pad at Cape Canaveral, the shortest span between orbital launches from Florida\u2019s Space Coast since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>These photos were captured by remote cameras at the Atlas 5 launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission. See our earlier photo gallery showing the Atlas 5\u2019s picturesque climb into space at dawn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40231\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40231\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-5.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-5-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40232\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40232\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-9.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-9-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40235\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40235\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488994462_d538bb0da0_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488994462_d538bb0da0_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488994462_d538bb0da0_k-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40233\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40233\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-1-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40234\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40234\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488995172_83355d3ec0_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488995172_83355d3ec0_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488995172_83355d3ec0_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40236\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40236\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830006_09ca6aa5f1_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830006_09ca6aa5f1_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830006_09ca6aa5f1_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830006_09ca6aa5f1_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830006_09ca6aa5f1_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40237\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40237\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-7.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-7-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40238\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40238\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830821_568f87ca21_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830821_568f87ca21_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830821_568f87ca21_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830821_568f87ca21_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488830821_568f87ca21_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40239\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40239\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488831296_126aebc5a7_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488831296_126aebc5a7_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/48488831296_126aebc5a7_k-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40240\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40240\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-10.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-10-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-10-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-10-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40241\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40241\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-4.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-4-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40242\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40242\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-8.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/remote_los_res-8-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40242\" 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>A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 8 with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite, the second launch from Florida\u2019s Coast in a span of less than 35 hours. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 launcher lifted off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral [&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-13006","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\/13006"}],"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=13006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}