{"id":14223,"date":"2017-11-05T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-minotaur-c-rocket-lifts-off-from-californias-central-coast\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T23:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T15:09:51","slug":"photos-minotaur-c-rocket-lifts-off-from-californias-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-minotaur-c-rocket-lifts-off-from-californias-central-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Minotaur-C rocket lifts off from California\u2019s Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orbital ATK\u2019s Minotaur-C rocket delivered 10 satellites to orbit Oct. 31 after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking the solid-fueled rocket\u2019s return to flight \u2014 with a new name and upgrades \u2014 after a six-year hiatus.<\/p>\n

The four-stage rocket lifted off at 2:37 p.m. PDT (5:37 p.m. EDT: 2137 GMT) on Oct. 31 from pad 576E at Vandenberg, a military facility on the Pacific coast northwest of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

It carried 10 small commercial Earth-imaging satellites for Planet, a company based in San Francisco that now operates some 200 spacecraft in orbit.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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Orbital ATK\u2019s Minotaur-C rocket delivered 10 satellites to orbit Oct. 31 after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, marking the solid-fueled rocket\u2019s return to flight \u2014 with a new name and upgrades \u2014 after a six-year hiatus. The four-stage rocket lifted off at 2:37 p.m. PDT (5:37 p.m. EDT: 2137 GMT) on Oct. […]<\/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":[291,1608,159,3135,25,2167,3136,2899],"class_list":["post-14223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-cubesats","tag-earth-observation","tag-flock-3m","tag-launch","tag-minotaur","tag-minotaur-c","tag-orbital-atk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223"}],"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=14223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}