{"id":82598,"date":"2018-09-15T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/watch-the-last-delta-ii-rocket-carry-icesat-2-into-space"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:01:15","slug":"watch-the-last-delta-ii-rocket-carry-icesat-2-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/watch-the-last-delta-ii-rocket-carry-icesat-2-into-space","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Last Delta II Rocket Carry ICESat-2 Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-the-last-delta-ii-rocket-carry-icesat-2-into-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Delta II.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s last Delta II rocket blasted into the atmosphere from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday carrying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41820-icesat-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2<\/a> (ICESat-2), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41850-nasa-icesat2-laser-launches-on-last-delta-ii-rocket.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> reported<\/a>, in the rocket\u2019s 155th and final mission.<\/p>\n<p>First entering service in 1989, the Delta II was NASA\u2019s workhorse rocket, with Saturday\u2019s launch capping off 100 successful launches in a row. (The last failure was in 1997, when a Delta II carrying a GPS satellite exploded <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/TECH\/9701\/17\/rocket.explosion\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seconds after leaving the pad<\/a>.) As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/9\/14\/17860690\/delta-ii-rocket-ula-nasa-icesat-2-laser-ice-sheets-final-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted by the Verge<\/a>, prior payloads have included the Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes, the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and the original ICESat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-the-last-delta-ii-rocket-carry-icesat-2-into-spac-1829082504\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/watch-the-last-delta-ii-rocket-carry-ice...1829082504<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godspeed, Delta II. NASA\u2019s last Delta II rocket blasted into the atmosphere from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday carrying the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), Space.com reported, in the rocket\u2019s 155th and final mission. First entering service in 1989, the Delta II was NASA\u2019s workhorse rocket, with Saturday\u2019s launch capping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82598","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82606,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82598\/revisions\/82606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}