{"id":15031,"date":"2016-12-08T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-delta-4-launch-views-from-ksc-press-site\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T18:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:07:46","slug":"photos-delta-4-launch-views-from-ksc-press-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-delta-4-launch-views-from-ksc-press-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Delta 4 launch views from KSC press site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday night with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s eighth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite, lighting up the sky in these images taken from the nearby Kennedy Space Center press site.<\/p>\n<p>The Delta 4 launched at 6:53 p.m. EST (2353 GMT) from Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral, turning east over the Atlantic Ocean and powering into orbit before successfully deploying the Boeing-built WGS 8 spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>These photos show the rocket clearing the launch pad, pitching east, climbing through a near-transparent cloud layer, then shedding its four solid rocket boosters to tumble back into the Atlantic. The final image \u2014 a multi-second exposure \u2014 shows the upper stage\u2019s RL10 engine continuing the journey into orbit downrange from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20509\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20509\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_1.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now\" width=\"675\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Isis Valencia\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20510\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20510\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_2.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now\" width=\"675\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_2.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_2-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Isis Valencia\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20511\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20511\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_3.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now\" width=\"675\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_3.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_3-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Isis Valencia\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20513\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20513\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_4.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_4.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Isis Valencia\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20512\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20512\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_5.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_5.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/d4_wgs8_5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Isis Valencia\/Spaceflight Now<\/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 United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday night with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s eighth Wideband Global SATCOM communications satellite, lighting up the sky in these images taken from the nearby Kennedy Space Center press site. The Delta 4 launched at 6:53 p.m. EST (2353 GMT) from Complex 37B [&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":[670,1962,3511,1688,1611,750,2117,3512],"class_list":["post-15031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-complex-37","tag-delta-376","tag-delta-4","tag-telecom","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-us-air-force","tag-wgs-8"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031"}],"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=15031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}