{"id":13843,"date":"2018-04-25T00:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/atlas-5-insight-launch-windows\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T16:32:25","slug":"atlas-5-insight-launch-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/atlas-5-insight-launch-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas 5\/InSight launch windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31929\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31929\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/launch.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/launch.png 1280w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/launch-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/launch-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/launch-678x381.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist\u2019s concept of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA\u2019s InSight lander toward Mars will have a roughly two-hour predawn launch window each day from May 5 through June 8 to boost the science probe into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly five-week launch period is dictated by the positions of Earth and Mars in the solar system, an alignment that occurs once every 26 months to make a direct journey between the planets possible.<\/p>\n<p>The exact duration of the launch window varies day-to-day, but around two hours will be available each day, according to NASA. A unique launch opportunity is available every five minutes during each day\u2019s launch window.<\/p>\n<p>InSight\u2019s landing on Mars will occur Nov. 26 around 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST; 0800 GMT), no matter which day the probe blasts off from California.&nbsp;InSight is designed to study the deep interior structure of Mars with a pair of scientific instruments for at least two years.<\/p>\n<p>Here are are the times for the opening of each day\u2019s launch window from May 5 through June 8 (<strong>Data source: NASA\/JPL)<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>May 5:&nbsp;<\/strong>4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT; 1105 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 6:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:55 a.m. PDT (6:55 a.m. EDT; 1055 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 7:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:50 a.m. PDT (6:50 a.m. EDT; 1050 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 8:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:40 a.m. PDT (6:40 a.m. EDT; 1040 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 9:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:35 a.m. PDT (6:35 a.m. EDT; 1035 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 10:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:30 a.m. PDT (6:30 a.m. EDT; 1030 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 11:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:20 a.m. PDT (6:20 a.m. EDT; 1020 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 12:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:15 a.m. PDT (6:15 a.m. EDT; 1015 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 13:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:10 a.m. PDT (6:10 a.m. EDT; 1010 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 14:&nbsp;<\/strong>3:00 a.m. PDT (6:00 a.m. EDT; 1000 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 15:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:55 a.m. PDT (5:55 a.m. EDT; 0955 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 16:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:45 a.m. PDT (5:45 a.m. EDT; 0945 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 17:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:40 a.m. PDT (5:40 a.m. EDT; 0940 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 18:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:35 a.m. PDT (5:35 a.m. EDT; 0935 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 19:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:25 a.m. PDT (5:25 a.m. EDT; 0925 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 20:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:20 a.m. PDT (5:20 a.m. EDT: 0920 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 21:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:10 a.m. PDT (5:10 a.m. EDT; 0910 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 22:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:05 a.m. PDT (5:05 a.m. EDT; 0905 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 23:&nbsp;<\/strong>2:00 a.m. PDT (5:00 a.m. EDT; 0900 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 24:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:50 a.m. PDT (4:50 a.m. EDT; 0850 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 25:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:45 a.m. PDT (4:45 a.m. EDT; 0845 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 26:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:40 a.m. PDT (4:40 a.m. EDT; 0840 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 27:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:35 a.m. PDT (4:35 a.m. EDT; 0835 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 28:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:30 a.m. PDT (4:30 a.m. EDT; 0830 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 29:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:25 a.m. PDT (4:25 a.m. EDT; 0825 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 30:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:20 a.m. PDT (4:20 a.m. EDT; 0820 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>May 31:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:10 a.m. PDT (4:10 a.m. EDT; 0810 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 1:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:05 a.m. PDT (4:05 a.m. EDT; 0805 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 2:&nbsp;<\/strong>1:00 a.m. PDT (4:00 a.m. EDT; 0800 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 3:&nbsp;<\/strong>12:55 a.m. PDT (3:55 a.m. EDT; 0755 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 4:&nbsp;<\/strong>12:50 a.m. PDT (3:50 a.m. EDT; 0750 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 5:&nbsp;<\/strong>12:45 a.m. PDT (3:45 a.m. EDT; 0745 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 6:&nbsp;<\/strong>12:40 a.m. PDT (3:40 a.m. EDT; 0740 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 7:&nbsp;<\/strong>12:35 a.m. PDT (3:35 a.m. EDT; 0735 GMT)<\/li>\n<li><strong>June 8:&nbsp;<\/strong>12:30 a.m. PDT (3:30 a.m. EDT; 0730 GMT)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Artist\u2019s concept of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket on its launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: NASA The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA\u2019s InSight lander toward Mars will have a roughly two-hour predawn launch window each day from May 5 through June 8 to boost the science [&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":[724,2964,927,1183,25,472,367,1561],"class_list":["post-13843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-078","tag-insight","tag-jet-propulsion-laboratory","tag-launch","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-mars","tag-planetary-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843"}],"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=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}