{"id":14301,"date":"2017-10-02T19:11:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-nrol-52-payload-mounted-atop-atlas-5-booster\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T19:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T11:11:42","slug":"photos-nrol-52-payload-mounted-atop-atlas-5-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-nrol-52-payload-mounted-atop-atlas-5-booster\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: NROL-52 payload mounted atop Atlas 5 booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Vertical Integration Facility. This milestone was achieved on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Launch of NROL-52 is planned for Thursday, Oct. 5, at 4:07 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo 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\/1-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.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\/2-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2.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\/3-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/3.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\/4-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/4.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/5.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6-678x1017.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/6.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 14-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Vertical Integration Facility. This milestone was achieved on Sept. 26. Launch of NROL-52 is planned for Thursday, Oct. 5, at 4:07 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: United [&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":[724,3154,3169,848,3155,750],"class_list":["post-14301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-075","tag-lift-and-mate","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-52","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301"}],"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=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}