{"id":14177,"date":"2017-11-18T17:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-delta-2-rocket-lifts-off-from-california\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T17:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:22:41","slug":"video-delta-2-rocket-lifts-off-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-delta-2-rocket-lifts-off-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Delta 2 rocket lifts off from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/243430626?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifted off Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the JPSS 1 weather satellite, the first in a new line of polar-orbiting observatories for NOAA.<\/p>\n<p>The 128-foot-tall (39-meter) rocket climbed into the sky from Space Launch Complex 2-West at 1:47:36 a.m. EST (4:47:36 a.m. EST; 0947:36 GMT) Saturday after back-to-back scrubbed countdowns earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta 2 rode nearly 800,000 pounds of thrust from six ground-lit solid rocket boosters and an RS-27A main engine. Three more solid-fueled boosters ignited in flight about a minute after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s launch marked the penultimate flight of a Delta 2 rocket, a workhorse for NASA, the U.S. Air Force and commercial customers since it debuted in 1989.<\/p>\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 Delta 2 rocket lifted off Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with the JPSS 1 weather satellite, the first in a new line of polar-orbiting observatories for NOAA. The 128-foot-tall (39-meter) rocket climbed into the sky from Space Launch Complex 2-West at 1:47:36 a.m. EST (4:47:36 a.m. EST; 0947:36 [&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":[1665,1807,159,2648,3122,25,975,2622],"class_list":["post-14177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ball-aerospace","tag-delta-2","tag-earth-observation","tag-jpss","tag-jpss-1","tag-launch","tag-noaa","tag-space-launch-complex-2-west"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177"}],"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=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}