{"id":15068,"date":"2016-11-18T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rolled-out-with-goes-r-aboard\/"},"modified":"2016-11-18T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:24:08","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rolled-out-with-goes-r-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rolled-out-with-goes-r-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out with GOES-R aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, equipped with four strap-on solid-propellant boosters for added performance, was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 to deliver the GOES-R weather satellite into space.<\/p>\n

Liftoff is planned for Saturday at 5:42 p.m. EST (2242 GMT).<\/p>\n

The rocket was wheeled out aboard a mobile launcher platform, emerging from the hangar where the rocket\u2019s two stages and the payload were integrated over the past three weeks.<\/p>\n

The slow drive from the 30-story Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad used a pair of specially-made \u201ctrackmobiles\u201d to carry the rocket\u2019s 1.4-million pound launching platform along rail tracks for the 1,800-foot trip.<\/p>\n

The rocket is flying the 541 vehicle configuration. The version features two stages, four solids and a five-meter-diameter nose cone. It is powered off the launch pad by an RD AMROSS RD-180 main engine and Aerojet Rocketdyne solids. The Centaur upper stage has an Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10C-1 cryogenic engine.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n

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See earlier GOES-R coverage.<\/p>\n

Our Atlas archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, equipped with four strap-on solid-propellant boosters for added performance, was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 to deliver the GOES-R weather satellite into space. Liftoff is planned for Saturday at 5:42 p.m. EST (2242 GMT). The rocket was wheeled out aboard […]<\/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":[724,3449,1357,190,975,3159,750,650],"class_list":["post-15068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-069","tag-goes-r","tag-nasa","tag-noaa","tag-rollout","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068"}],"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=15068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}