{"id":67082,"date":"2017-10-16T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/following-setbacks-ula-successfully-launches-nro-mission\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:00:04","slug":"following-setbacks-ula-successfully-launches-nro-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/following-setbacks-ula-successfully-launches-nro-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Setbacks, ULA Successfully Launches NRO Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>After a number of launch delays due to weather and technical malfunctions, <strong>United Launch Alliance <\/strong>(ULA) orbited a payload for the <strong>National Reconnaissance Office <\/strong>(NRO) in the early hours of Oct. 15. Designated NROL 52, the mission is in support of national security, and as such NRO declined to release further details about the payload.<\/p>\n<p>ULA launched the payload aboard an Atlas 5 Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) 421 configuration vehicle, which includes a 4-meter payload fairing and two solid rocket boosters. The Atlas booster for this mission was powered by the <strong>RD Amross\u2019<\/strong> RD-180 engine, while <strong>Aerojet Rocketdyne\u2019s <\/strong>RL10C-1 engine powered the Centaur upper stage.<\/p>\n<p>ULA\u2019s next launch is the Joint Polar Satellite System 1 (JPSS 1) for <strong>NASA<\/strong> and the <strong>National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration <\/strong>(NOAA). The launch is scheduled for&nbsp;Nov. 10&nbsp;at&nbsp;1:47 a.m. PST&nbsp;(4:47 a.m. EST) from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>NROL 52 marks ULA\u2019s seventh launch of the year so far, and the 26th launch for NRO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a number of launch delays due to weather and technical malfunctions, United Launch Alliance (ULA) orbited a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in the early hours of Oct. 15. Designated NROL 52, the mission is in support of national security, and as such NRO declined to release further details about the payload. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67089,"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-67082","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\/67082"}],"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=67082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}