{"id":13834,"date":"2018-04-27T20:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-modified-russian-ballistic-missile-blasts-off-with-european-satellite\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T20:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:20:49","slug":"photos-modified-russian-ballistic-missile-blasts-off-with-european-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-modified-russian-ballistic-missile-blasts-off-with-european-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Modified Russian ballistic missile blasts off with European satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out photos of Wednesday\u2019s launch of a Russian Rockot booster, derived from a decommissioned Soviet-era nuclear missile, with Europe\u2019s Sentinel 3B Earth observation satellite.<\/p>\n

The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot launcher lifted off at 1757 GMT (1:57 p.m. EDT; 8:57 p.m. local time) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia.<\/p>\n

Comprised of two booster stages taken from Russia\u2019s decommissioned UR-100N, or SS-19, missile stockpiles and a Breeze KM upper stage, the Rockot fired out of a launch tube with its first stage engines producing around 420,000 pounds of thrust, flying to the north-northwest to place the Sentinel 3B satellite into a 500-mile-high (800-kilometer) sun synchronous polar orbit.<\/p>\n

Sentinel 3B carries instruments to survey the world\u2019s oceans and vegetation for the European Commission\u2019s Copernicus program, a multibillion-dollar fleet of environmental satellites.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

These photos show the Rockot\u2019s launch pad at Plesetsk before liftoff, including the retraction of the pad\u2019s mobile gantry before the launcher climbed out of its launch tube.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: ESA \u2013 S. Corvaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: ESA \u2013 S. Corvaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: ESA \u2013 S. Corvaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: ESA \u2013 S. Corvaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: ESA \u2013 S. Corvaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out photos of Wednesday\u2019s launch of a Russian Rockot booster, derived from a decommissioned Soviet-era nuclear missile, with Europe\u2019s Sentinel 3B Earth observation satellite. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot launcher lifted off at 1757 GMT (1:57 p.m. EDT; 8:57 p.m. local time) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia. Comprised of two booster stages […]<\/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":[2448,1805,159,1059,2974,1060,831,1969],"class_list":["post-13834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ariane-group","tag-copernicus","tag-earth-observation","tag-eumetsat","tag-eurockot","tag-european-commission","tag-european-space-agency","tag-khrunichev"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834"}],"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=13834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}