{"id":14309,"date":"2017-09-29T23:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-proton-booster-lifts-off-from-baikonur-cosmodrome\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:15:33","slug":"photos-proton-booster-lifts-off-from-baikonur-cosmodrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-proton-booster-lifts-off-from-baikonur-cosmodrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Proton booster lifts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising atop a column of rocket exhaust lighting up the Kazakh steppe, a Russian Proton booster took off Thursday with a commercial communications satellite for AsiaSat.<\/p>\n

The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) Proton rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1852:16 GMT (2:52:16 p.m. EDT) Thursday, soaring into an overcast sky at the historic Central Asia spaceport, the site of the Space Age\u2019s first satellite launch 60 years ago next week.<\/p>\n

Six RD-276 main engines, consuming a blend of hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants, boosted the Proton rocket into the sky with nearly 2.5 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n

International Launch Services, the company managing AsiaSat 9\u2019s launch, declared the mission a success after the Proton\u2019s Breeze M upper stage deployed its satellite passenger into a high-altitude orbit around nine hours after liftoff.<\/p>\n

Photos below show the retraction of the mobile gantry at the Proton launch pad, then the rocket\u2019s fiery liftoff at 12:52 a.m. local time in Baikonur.<\/p>\n

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Rising atop a column of rocket exhaust lighting up the Kazakh steppe, a Russian Proton booster took off Thursday with a commercial communications satellite for AsiaSat. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) Proton rocket took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1852:16 GMT (2:52:16 p.m. EDT) Thursday, soaring into an overcast sky at the historic Central […]<\/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":[3172,3173,1601,1968,291,2646,1771,1969],"class_list":["post-14309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asiasat","tag-asiasat-9","tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","tag-breeze-m","tag-commercial-space","tag-international-launch-services","tag-kazakhstan","tag-khrunichev"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309"}],"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=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}