{"id":13961,"date":"2018-03-01T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-treks-from-hangar-to-launch-pad-with-goes-s-weather-satellite\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:40:12","slug":"photos-atlas-5-treks-from-hangar-to-launch-pad-with-goes-s-weather-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-treks-from-hangar-to-launch-pad-with-goes-s-weather-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 treks from hangar to launch pad with GOES-S weather satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling out on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket journeyed 1,800 feet from its vertical assembly hangar to Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Riding a 1.4-million-pound mobile launch platform, the Atlas 5 emerged from the Vertical Integration Facility around 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) Wednesday for the trip to nearby Complex 41. Two \u201ctrackmobiles\u201d pushed the Atlas 5 and its mobile table along dual rail tracks.<\/p>\n<p>These photos show the Atlas 5\u2019s journey to the pad, along with shots captured Wednesday evening showing the Atlas 5 at dusk.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday at the opening of a two-hour launch window.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the launch in our Mission Status Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30844\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30844\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831802494_e1b120f6af_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831802494_e1b120f6af_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831802494_e1b120f6af_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/Ben Smegelsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30845\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30845\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831150084_5506e51f65_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831150084_5506e51f65_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831150084_5506e51f65_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30846\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30846\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831148214_a0cbb46e55_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831148214_a0cbb46e55_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831148214_a0cbb46e55_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30847\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30847\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831144904_e9ae6582c5_k-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831144904_e9ae6582c5_k-2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831144904_e9ae6582c5_k-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831144904_e9ae6582c5_k-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831144904_e9ae6582c5_k-2-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30848\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30848\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795964_8ac80aba16_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795964_8ac80aba16_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795964_8ac80aba16_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/Ben Smegelsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30849\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30849\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795134_2c90a99543_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795134_2c90a99543_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795134_2c90a99543_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795134_2c90a99543_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831795134_2c90a99543_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/Ben Smegelsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30850\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30850\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40499115902_853e86af79_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40499115902_853e86af79_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40499115902_853e86af79_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40499115902_853e86af79_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40499115902_853e86af79_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30851\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30851\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26671274328_271c2299da_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26671274328_271c2299da_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26671274328_271c2299da_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26671274328_271c2299da_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26671274328_271c2299da_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: NASA\/Ben Smegelsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30854\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30854\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26670661208_f45a6aca26_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26670661208_f45a6aca26_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26670661208_f45a6aca26_k-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30855\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30855\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831122084_69d73e8274_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831122084_69d73e8274_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39831122084_69d73e8274_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30856\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30856\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39836438854_09994e1731_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39836438854_09994e1731_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/39836438854_09994e1731_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30857\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30857\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676099838_7d9b577a59_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676099838_7d9b577a59_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676099838_7d9b577a59_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676099838_7d9b577a59_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676099838_7d9b577a59_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30858\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30858\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676097428_2e7965426f_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676097428_2e7965426f_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676097428_2e7965426f_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676097428_2e7965426f_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676097428_2e7965426f_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30859\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30859\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40504467522_5a03bc4da2_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40504467522_5a03bc4da2_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/40504467522_5a03bc4da2_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30860\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30860\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676094208_871210985d_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676094208_871210985d_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676094208_871210985d_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676094208_871210985d_k-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/26676094208_871210985d_k-678x453.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30860\" 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>Rolling out on the eve of liftoff with the GOES-S weather satellite, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket journeyed 1,800 feet from its vertical assembly hangar to Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad Wednesday. Riding a 1.4-million-pound mobile launch platform, the Atlas 5 emerged from the Vertical Integration Facility around 10 a.m. EST (1500 [&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":[724,2959,1708,2960,2962,472,975,750],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-077","tag-complex-41","tag-goes","tag-goes-s","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-noaa","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961"}],"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=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}