{"id":17759,"date":"2020-03-27T01:38:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ulas-atlas-5-rocket-launches-aehf-6-satellite-on-space-forces-first-official-orbital-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T01:38:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:38:44","slug":"ulas-atlas-5-rocket-launches-aehf-6-satellite-on-space-forces-first-official-orbital-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ulas-atlas-5-rocket-launches-aehf-6-satellite-on-space-forces-first-official-orbital-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA\u2019s Atlas 5 rocket launches AEHF-6 satellite on Space Force\u2019s first official orbital mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_555199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555199\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-555199\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-aehf-630x384.jpg\" alt=\"AEHF-6 launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-aehf-630x384.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-aehf-1260x768.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-aehf-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/200326-aehf.jpg 1433w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-555199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Launch Alliance\u2019s Atlas 5 rocket launches the AEHF-6 military communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (ULA via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first satellite mission conducted under the name of the U.S. Space Force got underway today with the launch of the AEHF-6 military communications satellite atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:18 p.m. ET (1:18 p.m. PT), after a delay of more than an hour that was caused by a problem with a hydraulics system. More than five hours after launch, the Atlas 5\u2019s Centaur upper stage deployed the satellite into its intended orbit. Along the way, the rocket released a small secondary payload known as TDO-2.<\/li>\n<li>AEHF-6 is the sixth and last satellite for the U.S. military\u2019s Advanced Extremely High Frequency constellation, which provides secure communications for warfighters on land, air and sea. It\u2019s taken 10 years to build out the network of Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft.<\/li>\n<li>This Atlas 5 was the first rocket to brandish the Space Force logo instead of Air Force insignia. The Space Force was established last December, and management of space-related assets is shifting to the new military branch. The official renaming of Cape Canaveral\u2019s launch facility as a \u201cSpace Force Station\u201d has been postponed, however, due to the coronavirus outbreak.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Update for 8:20 p.m. PT March 26:<\/strong> This report has been updated to note the successful satellite deployment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance\u2019s Atlas 5 rocket launches the AEHF-6 military communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (ULA via YouTube) The first satellite mission conducted under the name of the U.S. Space Force got underway today with the launch of the AEHF-6 military communications satellite atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 [&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":[724,439,20,442,332,750],"class_list":["post-17759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-military","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-space-force","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759"}],"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=17759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}