{"id":122659,"date":"2021-05-17T14:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/watch-an-atlas-v-rocket-launch-us-space-force-missile-warning-satellite-today"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:23:17","slug":"watch-an-atlas-v-rocket-launch-us-space-force-missile-warning-satellite-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/watch-an-atlas-v-rocket-launch-us-space-force-missile-warning-satellite-today","title":{"rendered":"Watch an Atlas V rocket launch US Space Force missile-warning satellite today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TlRn5R4BcSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is at 1:42 p.m. EDT (1742 GMT).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40250-atlas-v-rocket.html\">Atlas V rocket<\/a> into space today (May 17), and you can watch the action live online.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage rocket will blast off from Space Launch Complex 41 here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:42 p.m. EDT (1742 GMT), carrying with it a missile-warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force. The launch was initially aimed to launch 7 minutes earlier, but ULA pushed it back \u201cto avoid launching too close to object already in space,\u201d company officials said in an update on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liftoff is at 1:42 p.m. EDT (1742 GMT). CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 United Launch Alliance (ULA) will launch an Atlas V rocket into space today (May 17), and you can watch the action live online. The two-stage rocket will blast off from Space Launch Complex 41 here at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}