{"id":14120,"date":"2017-12-16T22:15:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-european-rocket-launched-from-south-america\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T22:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T14:15:02","slug":"photos-european-rocket-launched-from-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-european-rocket-launched-from-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: European rocket launched from South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ariane 5 rocket launch Tuesday added four more navigation satellites to Europe\u2019s Galileo network with an on-target deployment following liftoff from a jungle spaceport on the northeastern coast of South America.<\/p>\n<p>Two solid rocket boosters and a hydrogen-burning Vulcain 2 engine gave the Ariane 5 rocket a push off its launch pad with 2.9 million pounds of thrust at 1836 GMT (1:36 p.m. EST; 3:36 p.m. French Guiana time) Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Four hours later, the Ariane 5\u2019s upper stage released the four Galileo navigation satellites in two pairs more than 14,000 miles (nearly 23,000 kilometers) above Earth. bringing the total number of European positioning and timing spacecraft in orbit to 22.<\/p>\n<p>The launch from Kourou, French Guiana, marked the 82nd consecutive success by an Ariane 5 rocket. It was the 11th and final launch of the year managed by Arianespace, the French launch provider responsible for Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega missions from the Guiana Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29166\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29166\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-9.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-9-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-9-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-9-678x299.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29167\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29167\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-8.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-8-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-8-678x451.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29187\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29187\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-11.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-11-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29189\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29189\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_1-1.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_1-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_1-1-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_1-1-678x478.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 JM Guillon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29190\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29190\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Decollage_plan-large_101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Decollage_plan-large_101.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Decollage_plan-large_101-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Decollage_plan-large_101-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Decollage_plan-large_101-678x479.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 JM Guillon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29192\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29192\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-13.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-13-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29193\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29193\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_2.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_2-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_2-678x480.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 JM Guillon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29194\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29194\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_3.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_3-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_3-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/va240_3-678x479.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 JM Guillon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29195\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29195\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12-12-2017-VA240_liftoff-vert-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12-12-2017-VA240_liftoff-vert-2.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12-12-2017-VA240_liftoff-vert-2-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29127\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29127\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25189021_1656401964398145_6487165339928310203_o-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25189021_1656401964398145_6487165339928310203_o-2.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25189021_1656401964398145_6487165339928310203_o-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25189021_1656401964398145_6487165339928310203_o-2-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/25189021_1656401964398145_6487165339928310203_o-2-678x479.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29196\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29196\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-5.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-5-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-5-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Galileo_lifts_off-5-678x418.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA-Manuel Pedoussaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ariane 5 rocket launch Tuesday added four more navigation satellites to Europe\u2019s Galileo network with an on-target deployment following liftoff from a jungle spaceport on the northeastern coast of South America. Two solid rocket boosters and a hydrogen-burning Vulcain 2 engine gave the Ariane 5 rocket a push off its launch pad with 2.9 [&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":[1540,2448,498,1060,831,1397,1773,25],"class_list":["post-14120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ariane-5","tag-ariane-group","tag-arianespace","tag-european-commission","tag-european-space-agency","tag-galileo","tag-guiana-space-center","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120"}],"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=14120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}