{"id":13998,"date":"2018-02-08T21:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-launch-pad-cameras-capture-falcon-heavys-fiery-liftoff\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:33:35","slug":"photos-launch-pad-cameras-capture-falcon-heavys-fiery-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-launch-pad-cameras-capture-falcon-heavys-fiery-liftoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Launch pad cameras capture Falcon Heavy\u2019s fiery liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This up-close sequence of photos shows the Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with nearly 5 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust.<\/p>\n<p>Using remote cameras, photographer Walter Scriptunas II took these images of the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket firing off pad 39A at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The photos show the Falcon Heavy\u2019s 27 Merlin main engines firing to propel the 3.1-million-pound launcher into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the flight in our Mission Status Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30414\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30414\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-1-678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30416\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30416\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-2310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-2310.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-2310-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-2310-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-2310-678x542.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30415\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30415\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-2-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-2-2-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-2-2-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-2-2-678x949.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30417\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30417\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-4430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-4430.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-4430-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-4430-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-4430-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30418\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30418\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo--200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo--768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WVWS_Falcon-Heavy-Demo--678x1017.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30418\" 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>This up-close sequence of photos shows the Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with nearly 5 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust. Using remote cameras, photographer Walter Scriptunas II took these images of the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket firing off pad 39A at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) [&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":[291,1045,678,3036,428,25,1702,1563],"class_list":["post-13998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-elon-musk","tag-falcon-heavy","tag-falcon-heavy-demo-flight","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-solar-system"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998"}],"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=13998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}