{"id":14299,"date":"2017-10-03T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-rolls-out-for-nrol-52-flight\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:26:04","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-rolls-out-for-nrol-52-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-rolls-out-for-nrol-52-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket rolls out for NROL-52 flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 Riding the rails between its assembly building and the launch pad, an Atlas 5 rocket topped with a clandestine national security satellite was rolled out this morning for Thursday\u2019s liftoff at 4:07 a.m. EDT (0807 GMT).<\/p>\n

United Launch Alliance technicians executed a smooth transfer in windy conditions, moving the 194-foot-tall rocket atop its 1.4-million pound launching platform the 1,800-foot distance.<\/p>\n

The trek from the 30-story Vertical Integration Facility to the Complex 41 launch pad used specially-made \u201ctrackmobiles\u201d to carry the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Once at the pad, autocouplers were engaged to feed the rocket with its commodities from the ground.<\/p>\n

The launch team has begun its crew sync period to adjust for the overnight countdown operations. Clocks begin ticking Wednesday evening for the seven-hour process to activate the Atlas-Centaur, run final tests and then fuel the stages with cryogenics.<\/p>\n

Weather forecasters continue to predict a 60 percent chance of favorable conditions for liftoff.<\/p>\n

See earlier NROL-52 coverage.<\/p>\n

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CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 Riding the rails between its assembly building and the launch pad, an Atlas 5 rocket topped with a clandestine national security satellite was rolled out this morning for Thursday\u2019s liftoff at 4:07 a.m. EDT (0807 GMT). United Launch Alliance technicians executed a smooth transfer in windy conditions, moving the 194-foot-tall rocket atop […]<\/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-14299","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\/14299"}],"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=14299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}