{"id":16545,"date":"2015-02-18T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-assembled-for-nasa-satellite-launch\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T01:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T17:40:27","slug":"photos-atlas-5-rocket-assembled-for-nasa-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-atlas-5-rocket-assembled-for-nasa-satellite-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Atlas 5 rocket assembled for NASA satellite launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will hurl the four MMS satellites into a highly elliptical Earth orbit on March 12 has completed its basic build up at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility. The spacecraft will fly in formation for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to gain new insights into the connections and disconnections of the lines in Earth\u2019s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket will fly in the 421 configuration, which features the Common Core Booster powered by an RD-180 main engine, two strap-on solid motors and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit: NASA-KSC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4080\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/01-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"01\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/01-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/01-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/01.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4081\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"02\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/02.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4082\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/03-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"03\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/03-683x1024.jpg 683w, 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src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/051-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"05\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/051-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/051-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/051-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/051.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4085\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"06\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4086\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/07-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"07\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/07-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/07-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/07-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/07.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4087\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/08-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"08\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" 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https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/11.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4091\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/12-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"12\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/12-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/12-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/12.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that will hurl the four MMS satellites into a highly elliptical Earth orbit on March 12 has completed its basic build up at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility. The spacecraft will fly in formation for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to gain new insights into the connections [&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":[4116,1708,4117,190,750,3082],"class_list":["post-16545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-av-053","tag-complex-41","tag-mms","tag-nasa","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-vertical-integration-facility"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545"}],"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=16545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}