{"id":15353,"date":"2016-07-26T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-moved-to-launch-pad-for-thursday-takeoff\/"},"modified":"2016-07-26T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:06:19","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-moved-to-launch-pad-for-thursday-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-moved-to-launch-pad-for-thursday-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket moved to launch pad for Thursday takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ready to deliver 1.5 million pounds of thrust Thursday morning, an Atlas 5 rocket was rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad today for its national security satellite-deployment flight.<\/p>\n

The United Launch Alliance rocket, equipped with two strap-on solid-propellant boosters for added performance, will launch the clandestine NROL-61 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n

Liftoff is planned for 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT).<\/p>\n

The booster 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 421 vehicle configuration. The version features two stages, two solids and a 14-foot-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 NROL-61 coverage.<\/p>\n

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

Ready to deliver 1.5 million pounds of thrust Thursday morning, an Atlas 5 rocket was rolled from its assembly building to the launch pad today for its national security satellite-deployment flight. The United Launch Alliance rocket, equipped with two strap-on solid-propellant boosters for added performance, will launch the clandestine NROL-61 payload for the U.S. National […]<\/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":[724,3648,848,3649,3159,750],"class_list":["post-15353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-av-065","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-61","tag-rollout","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353"}],"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=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}