{"id":3457,"date":"2009-10-08T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123171978"},"modified":"2009-10-08T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T21:41:00","slug":"delta-ii-launch-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3457","title":{"rendered":"Delta II Launch Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123171978\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/091008-F-5688L-005.JPG\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Vandenberg successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 today at 11:51 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>The rocket carried WorldView-2, a high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite, into polar orbit. <\/p>\n<p>With confirmation of the payload&#8217;s delivery into orbit and signal acquisition, the launch was pronounced a success. <\/p>\n<p>Col. David Buck, the 30th Space Wing commander, was the launch decision authority for this mission. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There really is nothing quite as exciting as seeing one of these powerful little rockets jump off the pad,&#8221; Col Buck said. &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly proud of this wing and its mission partners for the way they conquer the immense technical difficulties of space lift operations and make it look so easy.&#8221; <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123171978\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}