{"id":13556,"date":"2018-10-17T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-atlas-5-rocket-blasts-off-with-aehf-4-satellite\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T15:04:29","slug":"video-atlas-5-rocket-blasts-off-with-aehf-4-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-atlas-5-rocket-blasts-off-with-aehf-4-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Atlas 5 rocket blasts off with AEHF 4 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/295519057\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft launched Wednesday from Cape Canaveral on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, expanding the reach of the military\u2019s most secure, jam-resistant satellite communications network.<\/p>\n<p>The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad at 12:15 a.m. EDT (0415 GMT) Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Five solid rocket boosters and a kerosene-fueled RD-180 main engine pushed the launcher into the sky with 2.6 million pounds of thrust, and the Atlas 5 steered east from Florida\u2019s Space Coast over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marked the fifth Atlas 5 flight of the year, and the 79th launch of an Atlas 5 rocket since it debuted in August 2002. It was also the 17th space launch of 2018 from Cape Canaveral, a number that includes launches by ULA\u2019s Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets, and SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters.<\/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>The U.S. Air Force\u2019s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft launched Wednesday from Cape Canaveral on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, expanding the reach of the military\u2019s most secure, jam-resistant satellite communications network. The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad at 12:15 a.m. [&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":[2302,2859,724,2860,1708,25,472,554],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aehf","tag-aehf-4","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-073","tag-complex-41","tag-launch","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-northrop-grumman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556"}],"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=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}