{"id":13869,"date":"2018-04-13T20:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rolled-out-for-air-force-mission\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T20:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T12:28:49","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rolled-out-for-air-force-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rolled-out-for-air-force-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out for Air Force mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Launch Alliance arrived at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad Friday morning after rolling out of its vertical hangar with three U.S. Air Force satellites designed to provide communications to military leaders and test new in-orbit inspection and surveillance technology.<\/p>\n<p>These photos show the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket emerging from the Vertical Integration Facility on top of its mobile launch platform. Special locomotives called \u201ctrackmobiles\u201d pushed the rocket along tracks toward the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,800-foot (550-meter) journey took less than an hour, and ground crews planned to connect the Atlas 5 to the launch pad\u2019s electrical and fluid supplies, then load the rocket\u2019s first stage with RP-1 kerosene fuel Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff on the AFSPC 11 mission is set for 7:13 p.m. EDT (2313 GMT) Saturday. The launch window extends to 9:11 p.m. EDT (0111 GMT Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31622\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31622\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721409754_6ec0a64df3_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721409754_6ec0a64df3_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721409754_6ec0a64df3_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31623\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31623\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721407764_ad5d4835e4_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721407764_ad5d4835e4_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721407764_ad5d4835e4_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721407764_ad5d4835e4_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40721407764_ad5d4835e4_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31620\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31620\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41436005831_b7043f4b8c_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41436005831_b7043f4b8c_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41436005831_b7043f4b8c_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31621\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31621\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41393403812_8885ece1eb_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41393403812_8885ece1eb_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41393403812_8885ece1eb_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41393403812_8885ece1eb_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/41393403812_8885ece1eb_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31624\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31624\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40541147915_637f03e784_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40541147915_637f03e784_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40541147915_637f03e784_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40541147915_637f03e784_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/40541147915_637f03e784_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/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>A United Launch Alliance arrived at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad Friday morning after rolling out of its vertical hangar with three U.S. Air Force satellites designed to provide communications to military leaders and test new in-orbit inspection and surveillance technology. These photos show the 197-foot-tall (60-meter) rocket emerging from the Vertical Integration Facility [&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-13869","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\/13869"}],"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=13869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}