{"id":16863,"date":"2014-11-06T19:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/delta-4-passes-countdown-rehearsal-before-orion-launch\/"},"modified":"2014-11-06T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:51:53","slug":"delta-4-passes-countdown-rehearsal-before-orion-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/delta-4-passes-countdown-rehearsal-before-orion-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta 4 passes countdown rehearsal before Orion launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-879\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-879\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eftwdr.jpg\" alt=\"The Delta 4-Heavy rocket set to launch NASA's Orion spacecraft undergoes a countdown rehearsal at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday.\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eftwdr.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eftwdr-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eftwdr-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Delta 4-Heavy rocket set to launch NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft undergoes a countdown rehearsal at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 A countdown dress rehearsal and rocket fueling exercise was completed Wednesday at Cape Canaveral for next month\u2019s launch of NASA\u2019s Orion crew module atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy booster.<\/p>\n<p>Known as a Wet Dress Rehearsal, the WDR rolled back the mobile gantry early in the morning and performed a full countdown to a simulated liftoff time later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just successfully completed our Wet Dress Rehearsal yesterday. We basically took the vehicle through a launch countdown. We fully tanked it, operated all of our systems. It was a good exercise and everything is working great,\u201d said Ron Fortson, United Launch Alliance director of mission management.<\/p>\n<p>The real liftoff day is coming Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by three RS-68 main engines, the Heavy rocket will be launched from the Cape\u2019s pad 37B for Exploration Flight Test No. 1, or EFT 1.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will send Orion on a two-orbit mission around Earth to check out its systems in an uncrewed test.<\/p>\n<p>The next major milestone in the launch campaign is planned for Monday night, when the 73-foot-tall, 48,000-pound Orion spacecraft is hauled to the pad for mating with the Delta 4-Heavy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta 4-Heavy rocket set to launch NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft undergoes a countdown rehearsal at Cape Canaveral on Wednesday. CAPE CANAVERAL \u2014 A countdown dress rehearsal and rocket fueling exercise was completed Wednesday at Cape Canaveral for next month\u2019s launch of NASA\u2019s Orion crew module atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy booster. Known as [&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":[4201,1688,3688,640],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-delta-369","tag-delta-4","tag-eft-1","tag-orion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863"}],"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=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}