{"id":14335,"date":"2017-09-16T21:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-nrol-42-payload-joins-atlas-5-booster-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T21:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:23:12","slug":"photos-nrol-42-payload-joins-atlas-5-booster-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-nrol-42-payload-joins-atlas-5-booster-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: NROL-42 payload joins Atlas 5 booster for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This photo gallery shows the classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, already encapsulated in the 18-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base\u2019s Space Launch Complex 3-East pad. This milestone was achieved on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Launch of NROL-42 is planned for Thursday night, Sept. 21, at 10:38 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit: United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See earlier NROL-42 coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-678x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-678x453.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-678x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-678x1016.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3-678x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3-678x1016.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/3-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4-678x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4-678x1016.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/4-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/5-678x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/5-678x1016.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/5-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/6-678x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1016\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/6-678x1016.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/6-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/6-768x1151.jpg 768w\" 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 18-foot-diameter nose cone, being lifted atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas-Centaur rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base\u2019s Space Launch Complex 3-East pad. This milestone was achieved on Aug. 27. Launch of NROL-42 is planned for Thursday night, Sept. 21, at 10:38 [&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":[724,3182,3169,848,3183,750,3081],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-072","tag-lift-and-mate","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-42","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-vandenberg-air-force-base"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335"}],"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=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}