{"id":426,"date":"2006-04-15T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2006-04-15T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T15:29:46","slug":"vandenberg-minotaur-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/04\/15\/vandenberg-minotaur-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg Minotaur Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of rainclouds in our area, we missed this spectacular light show last evening. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/\">SpaceWeather.Com<\/a>, published a couple of nice images of the light show. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0604\/vberglights.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<em>Top: View from near Tucson, AZ &#8211; Bottom: View from Yucca Valley, CA<br \/>\nPhotos from SpaceWeather.Com<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/minotaur\/cosmic\/status.html\">Spaceflight Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSix tiny satellites sped into space Friday evening aboard an ultra-fast rocket booster, beginning a five-year mission to examine Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and the underlying hints of climate change by employing a novel technique.<\/p>\n<p>The $100 million COSMIC mission that partners the U.S. and Taiwan roared away from the wet and foggy Space Launch Complex 8 on the southern end of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:40 p.m. PDT (9:40 p.m. EDT; 0140 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket was gone in a flash, almost instantly disappearing from view of launch pad cameras. The liftoff was delayed an hour-and-a-half after an initial countdown attempt was aborted because of a problem with the system monitoring rocket data.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of rainclouds in our area, we missed this spectacular light show last evening. However, SpaceWeather.Com, published a couple of nice images of the light show.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace","category-rocket-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}