{"id":14834,"date":"2017-03-01T19:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-pad-gantry-rolled-back-to-reveal-atlas-5-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T19:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T11:27:55","slug":"photos-pad-gantry-rolled-back-to-reveal-atlas-5-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-pad-gantry-rolled-back-to-reveal-atlas-5-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Pad gantry rolled back to reveal Atlas 5 for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile service tower retracts from the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 191-foot-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the classified NROL-79 national security payload for the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit: United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-768x1076.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01.jpg 1428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/02.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/03.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/04.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/05-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/06-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/06-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/06-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/06-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/06.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/08-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/08-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/08-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/08-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/08.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"><\/p>\n<p>See earlier NROL-79 coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Our Atlas archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile service tower retracts from the Atlas 5 rocket, revealing the 191-foot-tall vehicle for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the classified NROL-79 national security payload for the U.S. government. Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier NROL-79 coverage. Our Atlas archive.<\/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":[724,3393,3184,848,3394,750,3081],"class_list":["post-14834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-068","tag-mst-rollback","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-79","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-vandenberg-air-force-base"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834"}],"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=14834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}