{"id":16472,"date":"2015-03-15T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/more-views-of-thursday-nights-atlas-5-launch\/"},"modified":"2015-03-15T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T10:47:55","slug":"more-views-of-thursday-nights-atlas-5-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/more-views-of-thursday-nights-atlas-5-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"More views of Thursday night\u2019s Atlas 5 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spaceflight Now\u2019s readers sent in photos from Thursday night\u2019s launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation.<\/p>\n

The Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad at 10:44 p.m. EDT Thursday (0244 GMT Wednesday). The launcher\u2019s RD-180 main engine and twin Aerojet Rocketdyne solid rocket motors gave the mission a boost out of the atmosphere, then a Centaur upper stage placed the four spacecraft into a highly elliptical orbit stretching some 40,000 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: Richard Angle (@Angle1555)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo credit: Joey Vars (@joetherocketman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo credit: Brian Barnes (@BrianBarnesWX)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spaceflight Now\u2019s readers sent in photos from Thursday night\u2019s launch of four NASA satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, marking a fiery start to a mission probing the fundamental workings of the magnetic bubble shielding Earth from cosmic radiation. The Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 launch pad at 10:44 p.m. […]<\/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":[724,4117,3932,750],"class_list":["post-16472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-mms","tag-space-launch-complex-41","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472"}],"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=16472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}