{"id":13367,"date":"2016-10-17T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2016-10-18T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:39:19","slug":"video-launch-of-the-antares-rocket-from-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13367","title":{"rendered":"Video: Launch of the Antares rocket from Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.OrbitalATK.com\" target=\"_blank\">Orbital ATK<\/a> plans to launch the company&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antares_(rocket)\" target=\"_blank\">Antares rocket<\/a> tonight at 7:40 pm EDT from Wallops Island, Virginia. It will send\u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cygnus_(spacecraft)\" target=\"_blank\">Cygnus<\/a> cargo spacecraft to orbit and the Cygnus\u00a0will proceed to a rendezvous and docking with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday. (Has to wait for a Soyuz that will launch from Russia [on Wednesday morning at 4:05 am EDT. 0805 GMT] with a crew of three \u00a0to dock with the ISS first.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Here is a video of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nasa-tv-wallops\" target=\"_blank\">NASA TV webcast<\/a> of the launch:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NX31vCePp1o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2<\/strong>: Here is the post-launch briefing:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WoCMz-ee1Ho?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orbital ATK plans to launch the company&#8217;s\u00a0Antares rocket tonight at 7:40 pm EDT from Wallops Island, Virginia. It will send\u00a0a\u00a0Cygnus cargo spacecraft to orbit and the Cygnus\u00a0will proceed to a rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station\u00a0on Sunday. (Has to wait for a Soyuz that will launch from Russia [on Wednesday morning at 4:05 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13367\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Launch of the Antares rocket from Virginia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3tB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16028,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16028","url_meta":{"origin":13367,"position":0},"title":"Rockets: Antares launch from Virginia + Falcon 9 Blk 5 +  Nex\u00f8 II + Chinese commercial launchers","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Some miscellaneous rocket related items: **\u00a0 Antares\/Cygnus Launch: Orbital\u00a0ATK is set to\u00a0launch an Antares rocket early Sunday morning, May 20th from Wallops Island, Virginia to send a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. 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