{"id":13788,"date":"2018-05-21T19:53:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-orbital-atks-antares-booster-climbs-away-from-virginia-spaceport\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:53:33","slug":"video-orbital-atks-antares-booster-climbs-away-from-virginia-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-orbital-atks-antares-booster-climbs-away-from-virginia-spaceport\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Orbital ATK\u2019s Antares booster climbs away from Virginia spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/271058297\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video credit: NASA TV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watch a replay of the launch Monday of an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying a commercial cargo craft destined for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares rocket lifted off at 4:44 a.m. EDT (0844 GMT) from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Soaring to the southeast from the launch base on Virginia\u2019s Eastern Shore, the Antares rocket shed its liquid-fueled first stage around three-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, then ignited a solid-fueled Castor 30XL second stage motor to place a Cygnus supply ship into orbit, beginning a three-day pursuit of the space station.<\/p>\n<p>The Cygnus spacecraft is loaded with nearly 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of supplies and experiments for the orbiting laboratory. It\u2019s the ninth operational resupply launch under a contract with NASA for 11 cargo flights valued at $2.89 billion.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for details on the resupply flight.<\/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: NASA TV Watch a replay of the launch Monday of an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying a commercial cargo craft destined for the International Space Station. The 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares rocket lifted off at 4:44 a.m. EDT (0844 GMT) from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. [&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":[2903,1732,1871,2047,2954,2955,2956,2904],"class_list":["post-13788","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\/13788"}],"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=13788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}