{"id":13647,"date":"2018-08-13T21:17:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-delta-4-heavy-takes-off-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T21:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T13:17:03","slug":"photos-delta-4-heavy-takes-off-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-delta-4-heavy-takes-off-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Delta 4-Heavy takes off from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driven by three RS-68A main engines, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off early Sunday from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe on a historic mission to study the sun.<\/p>\n

The heavy-duty rocket, standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, climbed away from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 37B launch pad at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) Sunday, a day after officials scrubbed launch attempt due to an alarm in the final two minutes of the countdown.<\/p>\n

Three Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A main engines ignited in a staggered step-by-step fashion beginning at approximately T-minus 7 seconds, then throttled up to generate a combined 2.1 million pounds of thrust as the Delta 4-Heavy took off from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe was bolted on top of the Delta 4-Heavy, the biggest rocket in the world, to begin a $1.5 billion mission to explore the sun\u2019s corona for the first time.<\/p>\n

These photos show the Delta 4-Heavy\u2019s launch in the wee hours of Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Driven by three RS-68A main engines, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket lifted off early Sunday from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe on a historic mission to study the sun. The heavy-duty rocket, standing 233 feet (71 meters) tall, climbed away from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 37B launch pad at 3:31 a.m. EDT […]<\/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-13647","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\/13647"}],"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=13647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}