{"id":12895,"date":"2019-10-13T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-proton-fires-off-the-launch-pad-with-two-u-s-built-satellites\/"},"modified":"2019-10-13T17:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T09:08:42","slug":"photos-proton-fires-off-the-launch-pad-with-two-u-s-built-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-proton-fires-off-the-launch-pad-with-two-u-s-built-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Proton fires off the launch pad with two U.S.-built satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ns8vhqTEfs0\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Six RD-276 engines powered a Russian Proton rocket off the launch pad Wednesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, boosting a television broadcast payload for Eutelsat and the first commercial robotic satellite servicing spacecraft into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The 191-foot-tall (58.2-meter) Proton rocket lifted off from pad 39 at the Site 200 complex at Baikonur at 1017:56 GMT (6:17:56 a.m. EDT).<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff occurred at 3:17 p.m. local time at Baikonur with the Eutelsat 5 West B communications satellite and the first Mission Extension Vehicle, which will attempt the first-ever docking with another spacecraft near geostationary orbit, located more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) above the equator.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 16 hours later, the Proton rocket\u2019s Breeze M upper stage released the two satellites into an on-target supersynchronous transfer orbit. The two spacecraft will use their own thrusters to maneuver into their final orbits.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s mission was the first managed by International Launch Services since 2017. ILS is a U.S.-based, Russian-owned firm responsible for sales of Proton launch services on the commercial market.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41187\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41187\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4739391707.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4739391707.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4739391707-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41188\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41188\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4956662791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4956662791.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4956662791-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4956662791-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4956662791-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41189\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41189\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4182161983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4182161983.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4182161983-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41190\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41190\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2768058913.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2768058913.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2768058913-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41191\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41191\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3043184150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3043184150.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3043184150-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3043184150-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3043184150-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41139\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41139\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4218827046.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4218827046.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4218827046-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4218827046-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4218827046-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41192\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41192\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3184113503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41193\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41193\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5293655008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5293655008.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5293655008-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5293655008-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5293655008-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41194\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41194\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3307478156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3307478156.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3307478156-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3307478156-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3307478156-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41195\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41195\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2504464719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2504464719.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2504464719-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2504464719-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2504464719-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41196\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41196\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6284982427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6284982427.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/6284982427-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41197\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41197\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3404704317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3404704317.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3404704317-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41198\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41198\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4726510662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4726510662.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4726510662-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4726510662-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4726510662-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41199\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41199\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4343342226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4343342226.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4343342226-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4343342226-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4343342226-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41200\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41200\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2461038199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2461038199.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2461038199-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41201\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41201\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3958395802.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3958395802.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3958395802-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41202\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41202\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4909054996.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4909054996.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/4909054996-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: 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The 191-foot-tall (58.2-meter) Proton rocket lifted off from pad 39 at the Site 200 complex at Baikonur at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1601,1968,291,1424,2468,1696,1255,2244],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","tag-breeze-m","tag-commercial-space","tag-eutelsat","tag-eutelsat-5-west-b","tag-geostar-3","tag-intelsat","tag-intelsat-901"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}