{"id":13779,"date":"2018-05-24T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-antares-rockets-predawn-launch-from-wallops-island\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T17:59:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T09:59:32","slug":"photos-antares-rockets-predawn-launch-from-wallops-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-antares-rockets-predawn-launch-from-wallops-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Antares rocket\u2019s predawn launch from Wallops Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carrying a Cygnus supply ship bound for the International Space Station, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket lifted off Monday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia.<\/p>\n

The 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares booster launched at 4:44 a.m. EDT (0844 GMT) Monday from pad 0A at the seaside spaceport, located at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility. The two-stage launcher delivered the Cygnus cargo craft into orbit to begin a three-day pursuit of the space station, which concluded Thursday with a successful capture by the lab\u2019s robotic arm.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s launch was the eighth flight of an Antares rocket, and the third using new RD-181 main engines. It was the ninth operational cargo launch under Orbital ATK\u2019s commercial logistics contract with NASA.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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Credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Alex Polimeni\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carrying a Cygnus supply ship bound for the International Space Station, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket lifted off Monday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. The 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares booster launched at 4:44 a.m. EDT (0844 GMT) Monday from pad 0A at the seaside spaceport, located at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility. The […]<\/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":[2903,1732,1871,2047,2954,2955,2956,2904],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerocube-12","tag-aerospace-corporation","tag-antares","tag-antares-230","tag-brown-university","tag-bulgaria","tag-cold-atom-laboratory","tag-colorado-state-university"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779"}],"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=13779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}