{"id":14268,"date":"2017-10-12T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-returns-to-pad-for-night-owl-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:28:00","slug":"photos-atlas-5-returns-to-pad-for-night-owl-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-returns-to-pad-for-night-owl-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 returns to pad for night owl launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with the NROL-52 spacecraft aboard moved to the launch pad this morning for liftoff Saturday to serve the national interest. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas 5 was rolled back to the Vertical Integration Facility on Monday for a removal, replacement and retest of its S-band telemetry transmitter, then waited for nearby Falcon 9 to launch to occur last night before returning to pad today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See earlier NROL-52 coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-678x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-678x453.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/12.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22-678x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/22.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/32-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/32-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/32-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/32-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/32.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/42-678x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/42-678x453.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/42-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/42-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/42.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/52-678x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/52-678x453.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/52-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/52-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/52.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with the NROL-52 spacecraft aboard moved to the launch pad this morning for liftoff Saturday to serve the national interest. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT). The Atlas 5 was rolled back to the Vertical Integration Facility on Monday for a removal, replacement and retest [&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":[724,3154,848,3155,3159,750],"class_list":["post-14268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-075","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-52","tag-rollout","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268"}],"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=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}