{"id":82593,"date":"2012-08-24T19:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-postpones-ula-atlas-5-launch\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T11:19:16","slug":"nasa-postpones-ula-atlas-5-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-postpones-ula-atlas-5-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Postpones ULA Atlas 5 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-24-12] <b>NASA<\/b> has postponed the launch of two Radiation Belt Storm Probe spacecraft after a malfunction with a tracking system occurred late in the mission\u2019s final countdown, NASA confirmed Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The <b>United Launch Alliance (ULA) <\/b>Atlas 5 rocket carrying the two satellites is now slated to launch early Saturday morning. The $686 million Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission is a two-year project to study the radiation environment around the Earth.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe launch countdown was going well until our team spotted a frequency drift in the tracking beacon used by the Air Force\u2019s Eastern Range to track the rocket after liftoff. That is a mandatory safety item so that we could track the vehicle in flight,\u201d NASA Launch Director Tim Dunn said in a statement. \u201cIt certainly was a situation we wish we didn\u2019t have, but we wanted to err on the side of conservatism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-24-12] NASA has postponed the launch of two Radiation Belt Storm Probe spacecraft after a malfunction with a tracking system occurred late in the mission\u2019s final countdown, NASA confirmed Aug. 24. &nbsp; &nbsp;The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket carrying the two satellites is now slated to launch early Saturday morning. The $686 million [&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":[],"class_list":["post-82593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82593"}],"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=82593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}