{"id":16601,"date":"2015-02-05T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-final-batch-of-smap-launch-shots-aboard-delta-2-rocket\/"},"modified":"2015-02-05T21:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:17:21","slug":"photos-final-batch-of-smap-launch-shots-aboard-delta-2-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-final-batch-of-smap-launch-shots-aboard-delta-2-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Final batch of SMAP launch shots aboard Delta 2 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifts off with NASA\u2019s SMAP observatory at 6:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 31 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit: William G. Hartenstein \/ United Launch Alliance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a terrific ride into space aboard the United Launch Alliance\u2019s Delta 2 vehicle. They deposited us exactly where we wanted to be with with accuracy and precision,\u201d said Kent Kellogg, NASA\u2019s SMAP project manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a fantastic start to the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission. I want to express my thanks to the NASA Launch Services Program people who worked so hard to get us into space and the United Launch Alliance folks with their fantastic Delta 2 vehicle that gave us a wonderful ride into space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3640\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l1-721x1024.jpg\" alt=\"dii_smap_l1\" width=\"620\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l1-721x1024.jpg 721w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l1-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l1-768x1091.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l1.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3641\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l2-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"dii_smap_l2\" width=\"620\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l2-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l2-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l2.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3642\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"dii_smap_l3\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-678x509.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l3-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3643\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l4-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"dii_smap_l4\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l4-768x1151.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3644\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l5-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"dii_smap_l5\" width=\"620\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l5-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l5-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l5-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3645\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l6-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"dii_smap_l6\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l6-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l6-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l6-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/dii_smap_l6-678x381.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket lifts off with NASA\u2019s SMAP observatory at 6:22 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan. 31 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo credit: William G. Hartenstein \/ United Launch Alliance \u201cWe had a terrific ride into space aboard the United Launch Alliance\u2019s Delta 2 vehicle. They deposited [&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":[4137,190,3967,750,603],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-delta-370","tag-nasa","tag-smap","tag-united-launch-alliance","tag-vandenberg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601"}],"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=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}