{"id":14538,"date":"2017-06-13T22:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-russian-proton-rocket-blasts-off-with-echostar-21\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T22:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:41:21","slug":"photos-russian-proton-rocket-blasts-off-with-echostar-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-russian-proton-rocket-blasts-off-with-echostar-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Russian Proton rocket blasts off with EchoStar 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look back on last week\u2019s launch of a Russian Proton rocket from Kazakhstan with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite, a commercial craft designed to beam broadband connectivity to customers across Europe.<\/p>\n

The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket took off at 0345 GMT on June 8 (11:45 p.m. EDT on June 7) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and it took more than nine hours for the Proton\u2019s Breeze M upper stage to maneuver the EchoStar 21 communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n

These images show sunrise at the Central Asia spaceport, retraction of the mobile gantry at the Proton launch pad, and liftoff of the liquid-fueled launcher on 2 million pounds of thrust from six RD-276 first stage main engines.<\/p>\n

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

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