{"id":522664,"date":"2018-09-17T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1636223\/vandenberg-launches-delta-ii-icesat-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:50:54","slug":"vandenberg-launches-delta-ii-icesat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=522664","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg launches Delta II ICESat-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying NASA\u2019s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 on Sept. 15 at 6:02 a.m. PDT. This marks the final mission of the Delta II rocket, which first launched on Feb. 14, 1989, and launched 155 times including ICESat-2.<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Sep\/15\/2001966668\/82\/55\/0\/180915-F-XJ735-023.JPG' alt='A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying NASA\u2019s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 on Sept. 15 at 6:02 a.m. PDT. This marks the final mission of the Delta II rocket, which first launched on Feb. 14, 1989, and launched 155 times including ICESat-2. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Clayton Wear\/Released)' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying NASA&rsquo;s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 on Sept. 15 at 6:02 a.m. PDT. This marks the final mission of the Delta II rocket, which first launched on Feb. 14, 1989, and launched 155 times including ICESat-2.<br \/> <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2018\/Sep\/15\/2001966668\/82\/55\/0\/180915-F-XJ735-023.JPG\" alt=\"A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying NASA&rsquo;s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 on Sept. 15 at 6:02 a.m. PDT. This marks the final mission of the Delta II rocket, which first launched on Feb. 14, 1989, and launched 155 times including ICESat-2. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Clayton Wear\/Released)\"> <\/p>\n","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-522664","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\/522664","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=522664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522665,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522664\/revisions\/522665"}],"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=522664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}