{"id":14837,"date":"2017-03-01T00:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-ready-to-fly-with-nrol-79-payload\/"},"modified":"2017-03-01T00:58:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:58:55","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-ready-to-fly-with-nrol-79-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-ready-to-fly-with-nrol-79-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket ready to fly with NROL-79 payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on the eve of Wednesday\u2019s NROL-79 satellite-deployment mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Rocky, the ULA mascot, even paid a visit to the pad Tuesday morning while photographers were setting up sound-activated cameras to capture the launch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01Atlas5-Prep16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"417\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01Atlas5-Prep16.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/01Atlas5-Prep16-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/02Atlas5-Prep14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"482\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/02Atlas5-Prep14.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/02Atlas5-Prep14-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/03Atlas5-Prep11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/03Atlas5-Prep11.jpg 570w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/03Atlas5-Prep11-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/04Atlas5-Prep12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/04Atlas5-Prep12.jpg 439w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/04Atlas5-Prep12-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/05Atlas5-Prep13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/05Atlas5-Prep13.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/05Atlas5-Prep13-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06Atlas5-Prep9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06Atlas5-Prep9.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06Atlas5-Prep9-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/06Atlas5-Prep9-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/07Atlas5-Prep15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/07Atlas5-Prep15.jpg 578w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/07Atlas5-Prep15-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/08Atlas5-Prep10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/08Atlas5-Prep10.jpg 358w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/08Atlas5-Prep10-149x300.jpg 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\"><\/p>\n<p>See earlier NROL-79 coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Our Atlas archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket stands atop Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on the eve of Wednesday\u2019s NROL-79 satellite-deployment mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Rocky, the ULA mascot, even paid a visit to the pad Tuesday morning while photographers were setting up sound-activated cameras to capture [&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":[724,3393,848,3394,750,3081],"class_list":["post-14837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-068","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\/14837"}],"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=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}