{"id":13639,"date":"2018-08-19T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocketcam-replay-of-delta-4-heavy-rockets-launch-with-solar-probe\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T10:08:12","slug":"rocketcam-replay-of-delta-4-heavy-rockets-launch-with-solar-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocketcam-replay-of-delta-4-heavy-rockets-launch-with-solar-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocketcam replay of Delta 4-Heavy rocket\u2019s launch with solar probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdtkBQyqFao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This video released by United Launch Alliance shows the Delta 4-Heavy rocket\u2019s predawn liftoff Aug. 12 from the perspective of a downward-facing camera, capturing dazzling views of the fiery takeoff and the dramatic separation of the launcher\u2019s two hydrogen-fueled boosters.<\/p>\n<p>The 233-foot-tall (71-meter) Delta 4-Heavy rocket took off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 37B launch pad at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) on Aug. 12. NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe, departing from Earth on a mission to fly closer to the sun than any mission before, was the passenger on the 10th flight of ULA\u2019s heaviest launcher.<\/p>\n<p>United Launch Alliance released this video on YouTube a few days after liftoff, showing an interrupted nearly six-minute view from a rocket-mounted camera as the Delta 4-Heavy climbed away from Florida\u2019s Space Coast. The replay shows the shutdown and separation of the rocket\u2019s two strap-on boosters, each powered by a hydrogen-fueled RS-68A main engine, just shy of the flight\u2019s four-minute mark.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta 4-Heavy\u2019s center core continued firing its own RS-68A engine until around five-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, followed by stage separation and the first ignition of the second stage\u2019s RL10 engine.<\/p>\n<p>Live flight commentary from ULA systems engineer Patrick Moore was added to the rocketcam replay.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the 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>Video credit: United Launch Alliance This video released by United Launch Alliance shows the Delta 4-Heavy rocket\u2019s predawn liftoff Aug. 12 from the perspective of a downward-facing camera, capturing dazzling views of the fiery takeoff and the dramatic separation of the launcher\u2019s two hydrogen-fueled boosters. The 233-foot-tall (71-meter) Delta 4-Heavy rocket took off from Cape [&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":[2057,1878,2891,1688,1408,1860,1861,25],"class_list":["post-13639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-complex-37b","tag-delta","tag-delta-380","tag-delta-4","tag-delta-4-heavy","tag-heliophysics","tag-jhuapl","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639"}],"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=13639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}