{"id":168696,"date":"2023-07-30T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/l-72-forecast-80-favorable-for-antares-launch"},"modified":"2023-07-30T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:26:53","slug":"l-72-forecast-80-favorable-for-antares-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/l-72-forecast-80-favorable-for-antares-launch","title":{"rendered":"L-72 Forecast: 80% Favorable for Antares Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/l-72-forecast-80-favorable-for-antares-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wallops Range forecast issued today for the Tuesday, Aug. 1, launch of Northrop Grumman\u2019s 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station puts weather at 80% favorable.<\/p>\n<p>A weak area of high pressure will move off the coast Sunday evening, as a weak upper-level disturbance tracks toward the Wallops region with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms Monday morning through late Monday evening. The upper-level trough will remain over the Wallops Region Tuesday with a chance of an afternoon, sea breeze, pop-up shower or thunderstorms during the countdown. At this time, the primary concern for launch is a slight chance of cumulus clouds.<\/p>\n<p>NASA commercial cargo provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/structure\/launch\/northrop-grumman.html\"> Northrop Grumman<\/a> is targeting 8:31 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 1, for the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wallops Range forecast issued today for the Tuesday, Aug. 1, launch of Northrop Grumman\u2019s 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station puts weather at 80% favorable. A weak area of high pressure will move off the coast Sunday evening, as a weak upper-level disturbance tracks toward the Wallops region with a slight chance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168696","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=168696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}