{"id":15028,"date":"2016-12-08T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-h-2b-rocket-emerges-for-rollout-to-launch-pad-at-daybreak\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:00:31","slug":"photos-h-2b-rocket-emerges-for-rollout-to-launch-pad-at-daybreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-h-2b-rocket-emerges-for-rollout-to-launch-pad-at-daybreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: H-2B rocket emerges for rollout to launch pad at daybreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese resupply freighter and its H-2B rocket booster rolled out of the vehicle assembly building at the Tanegashima Space Center just before sunrise Friday for the half-hour trip to the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Mounted on top of a mobile platform, the 186-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket headed for Launch Pad No. 2 at the Yoshinobu launch complex, Tanegashima\u2019s primary launch facility nestled on a rocky outcrop in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The distance covered during the rollout from the assembly hangar to the launch pad was approximately 1,300 feet, or 400 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage of Friday\u2019s launch, which is timed for 1326:47 GMT (8:26:47 a.m. EST), is available here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20581\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20581\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_01.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: MHI\" width=\"470\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_01.jpg 366w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_01-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: MHI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20580\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20580\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_02.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: MHI\" width=\"470\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_02.jpg 366w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_02-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: MHI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20579\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20579\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_03.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: MHI\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_03.jpg 550w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_03-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: MHI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20578\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20578\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_04.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: MHI\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_04.jpg 550w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_04-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: MHI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20574\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20574\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20574\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_11.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: MHI\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_11.jpg 550w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bf6_cd_11-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: MHI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese resupply freighter and its H-2B rocket booster rolled out of the 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Mounted on top of a mobile platform, the 186-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket headed for Launch Pad No. 2 at the Yoshinobu launch complex, [&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":[3292,3506,1839,3422,717,1602,377,877],"class_list":["post-15028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-expedition-50","tag-h-2b-f6","tag-htv","tag-htv-6","tag-international-space-station","tag-iss-cargo","tag-japan","tag-jaxa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028"}],"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=15028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}