{"id":66343,"date":"2018-01-16T21:19:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ula-launches-nro-47-payload-on-delta-4-rocket\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T13:19:44","slug":"ula-launches-nro-47-payload-on-delta-4-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ula-launches-nro-47-payload-on-delta-4-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"ULA Launches NRO 47 Payload on Delta 4 Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fulalaunch%2Fvideos%2F10155623437475379%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> (ULA) Delta 4 rocket carrying a payload for the <strong>National Reconnaissance Office <\/strong>(NRO) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Jan. 12. Because the mission \u2014 designated NROL 47 \u2014 is classified, NRO has not released information on what the satellite will be used for, stating only that the mission is in support of national defense.<\/p>\n<p>ULA launched the mission aboard a Delta 4 Medium+ (5, 2) configuration Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) powered by one common booster core (powered by an RS-68A liquid hydrogen\/liquid oxygen engine) and two solid rocket motors built by <strong>Orbital ATK<\/strong>. A single RL10B-2 liquid hydrogen\/liquid oxygen engine powered the second stage. <strong>Aerojet Rocketdyne<\/strong> manufactured both the booster and upper stage engines.<\/p>\n<p>ULA\u2019s next launch is the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) GEO Flight 4 mission for the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> on an Atlas 5 rocket. The launch is scheduled for Jan. 18 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 4 rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Jan. 12. Because the mission \u2014 designated NROL 47 \u2014 is classified, NRO has not released information on what the satellite will be used for, stating only that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56746,"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":[],"class_list":["post-66343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66343"}],"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=66343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}