{"id":15736,"date":"2016-02-09T18:51:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-nrol-45-payload-fitted-atop-delta-4-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2016-02-09T18:51:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:51:44","slug":"photos-nrol-45-payload-fitted-atop-delta-4-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-nrol-45-payload-fitted-atop-delta-4-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: NROL-45 payload fitted atop Delta 4 for launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of photographs shows the National Reconnaissance Office\u2019s classified NROL-45 payload, already encapsulated in the Delta 4 nose cone, being moved from the payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex 6 and lifted atop the United Launch Alliance rocket for flight on Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photos by United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12498\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-2-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"620\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-2-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1-2-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12499\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-2-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"620\" height=\"928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-2-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2-2-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12501\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-2-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/3-2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12502\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4-2-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4-2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/4-2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12503\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/5-2-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/5-2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/5-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/5-2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12504\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"NROL-45 Delta IV VAFB. Prior to rollback\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/6-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12505\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NROL-45 Delta IV VAFB. Prior to rollback\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12506\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"NROL-45 Delta IV VAFB. Prior to rollback\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/8-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n<p>See earlier Delta 373 coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Our Delta archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This collection of photographs shows the National Reconnaissance Office\u2019s classified NROL-45 payload, already encapsulated in the Delta 4 nose cone, being moved from the payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex 6 and lifted atop the United Launch Alliance rocket for flight on Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Photos by United Launch [&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":[437,3805,1688,848,3806,3069,3225,750],"class_list":["post-15736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-force","tag-delta-373","tag-delta-4","tag-national-reconnaissance-office","tag-nrol-45","tag-space-launch-complex-6","tag-stacking","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736"}],"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=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}