{"id":80153,"date":"2013-09-07T01:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-ladee-lunar-orbiter-to-launch-aboard-orbitals-minotaur-5\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T01:05:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:05:23","slug":"nasas-ladee-lunar-orbiter-to-launch-aboard-orbitals-minotaur-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-ladee-lunar-orbiter-to-launch-aboard-orbitals-minotaur-5\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019S Ladee Lunar Orbiter to Launch Aboard Orbital\u2019s Minotaur 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-06-13] <b>Orbital Sciences Corporation <\/b>is in final preparations for the launch of <b>NASA\u2019s<\/b> Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft aboard its new Minotaur 5 rocket. The vehicle is slated for launch from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface and environmental influences on lunar dust. LADEE will mark the first lunar launch from the NASA Wallops facility and Orbital\u2019s first Minotaur rocket launch of a payload that will travel beyond low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Minotaur 5 is a five-stage space launch vehicle designed, built and operated by Orbital for the <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b>. It uses three decommissioned Peacekeeper government-supplied booster stages that Orbital combines with commercial motors for the upper two stages to produce a low-cost rocket for launching smaller spacecraft into low-Earth orbit and higher-energy trajectories, such as the trans-lunar flight of the LADEE mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-06-13] Orbital Sciences Corporation is in final preparations for the launch of NASA\u2019s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft aboard its new Minotaur 5 rocket. The vehicle is slated for launch from NASA\u2019s Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. NASA\u2019s LADEE is a robotic mission that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80154,"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-80153","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\/80153"}],"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=80153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}