{"id":13866,"date":"2018-04-15T01:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T17:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-blasts-off-for-u-s-air-force\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T01:49:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T17:49:13","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-blasts-off-for-u-s-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-blasts-off-for-u-s-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket blasts off for U.S. Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Atlas 5 rocket rumbled into space Saturday evening after lifting off from Cape Canaveral with multiple U.S. Air Force communications and tech demo satellites, and brilliant clear skies made for ideal viewing conditions shortly before sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Powering off the launch pad with 2.6 million pounds of thrust, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off at 7:13 p.m. EDT (2313 GMT) with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM satellite and an experimental payload-carrier named EAGLE.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas 5 rocket aimed to place its satellite passengers into a circular orbit more than 24,000 miles (about 39,000 kilometers) above the equator, a trip that was expected to take around six hours.<\/p>\n<p>These photos captured from multiple viewing points around Cape Canaveral show the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 taking off in its most powerful configuration, with five solid rocket boosters adding to the thrust of the launcher\u2019s RD-180 main engine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31689\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31689\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-2-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31690\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31690\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3567-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3567-3-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3567-3-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3567-3-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3567-3-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31685\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31685\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0261.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0261.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0261-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0261-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0261-678x452.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31691\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31691\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3569-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3569-2-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3569-2-copy-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3569-2-copy-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3569-2-copy-678x832.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31692\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31692\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-5-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-5-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-5-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-5-1-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31693\" style=\"width: 1365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31693\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0264.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1365\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0264.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0264-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0264-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0264-678x1017.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1365px) 100vw, 1365px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31694\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31694\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3571-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3571-2-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3571-2-copy-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3571-2-copy-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3571-2-copy-678x494.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31695\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31695\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31695\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-1-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31696\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31696\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3577-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3577-2-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3577-2-copy-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3577-2-copy-768x1215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3577-2-copy-678x1073.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31697\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31697\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3579-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3579-3-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3579-3-copy-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3579-3-copy-768x972.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3579-3-copy-678x858.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31698\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31698\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-6.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/afspc_11_itl_resize-6-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Alex Polimeni\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31699\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31699\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3584-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3584-3-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3584-3-copy-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3584-3-copy-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_3584-3-copy-678x486.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31700\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31700\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0492.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0492.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0492-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0492-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WVWS_AFSPC11-0492-678x452.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>An Atlas 5 rocket rumbled into space Saturday evening after lifting off from Cape Canaveral with multiple U.S. Air Force communications and tech demo satellites, and brilliant clear skies made for ideal viewing conditions shortly before sunset. Powering off the launch pad with 2.6 million pounds of thrust, the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket [&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":[864,2976,1056,724,2977,1708,2978,2979],"class_list":["post-13866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerojet-rocketdyne","tag-afspc-11","tag-air-force-research-laboratory","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-079","tag-complex-41","tag-continuous-broadcast-augmenting-satcom","tag-eagle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866"}],"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=13866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}