ATLAS V RISING MOVIE
ATLAS V RISING UPDATE

After being rolled back into its hangar, where the duct was swapped out, the Atlas V rocket rolled back to the pad on Tuesday. This may have been damaged during high winds at the launch site on Monday. This mission was originally scheduled to launch on Tuesday, but after a rollout on Monday, the company discovered a problem with an environmental control system duct. Perhaps the biggest question heading into today's launch attempt is whether the Atlas V rocket will get off the ground. United Launch Alliance plans to use an extended version of this booster, the GEM-63L, on its Vulcan rocket, which could make its first flight in a year or so.

These GEM-63 boosters cost less than the booster previously used. For the first time, the Atlas V will use solid-rocket boosters built by Northrop Grumman rather than Aerojet Rocketdyne. The venerable Atlas V rocket, which has flown 85 missions since its debut in 2002, will be testing new hardware with this flight. There is a 70-percent chance of favorable conditions. The mission is named NROL-101, and its final orbit is classified. The company's Atlas V rocket is scheduled to liftoff from Space Launch Complex-41 at 5:54pm EST (22:54 UTC), carrying a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Original post 11:25am EST: United Launch Alliance returns to one of its two main pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wednesday to try to break a string of recent launch scrubs due to various issues, mostly related to ground systems. The company will now stand down for 48 hours to address the issue, which would allow for SpaceX to attempt a launch of a GPS III satellite for the Space Force on Thursday. Prior to the opening of the Atlas V launch window on Wednesday evening, an issue related to ground-system liquid-oxygen valves could not be solved in time for a launch attempt from Florida.

ATLAS V RISING UPDATE

Update 6:15pm EST: A ground-systems issue got United Launch Alliance again. The rays of the sun caught the expanding gasses just right and. 'The sunrise highlighted the normal expansion of the exhaust plume which expands as the atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude.

Shannon Klug, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing Weather Squadron.

'Simply put, it was due to the sun's angle at time of launch,' explained Col. Its Japanese version name may be a reference.

ATLAS V RISING MOVIE

It was not, nor was any unusual weather responsible for the striking visual effects. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station catching the rising sun on its climbing contrail on Thursday, Aug. Atlas Rising, known as Road of the King in the Japanese version, is a movie in Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds about Jack Atlas. Then an egg-shaped glow appeared to surround the rocket's exhaust trail and spread outward, a strange and somewhat eerie scene that led some, remembering SpaceX's failed launch in June, to fear the mission was in trouble. The 21-story Atlas V painted a white streak through the dark sky starting several hundred miles down range. That turned out to be perfect timing for the United Launch Alliance rocket to catch the morning's first rays of light, barely visible on the horizon, as it climbed from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a southeastern shot over the Atlantic Ocean. Thank a tropical storm, which delayed the mission's first launch attempt two days, and a technical glitch during Wednesday's countdown, for setting the stage.Ī problem during fueling pushed the liftoff with a Navy communications satellite back 19 minutes, to 6:18 a.m., about 45 minutes before sunrise.

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