{"id":14548,"date":"2017-06-05T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/watch-a-replay-of-indias-most-powerful-launcher-heading-into-orbit\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T12:40:42","slug":"watch-a-replay-of-indias-most-powerful-launcher-heading-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/watch-a-replay-of-indias-most-powerful-launcher-heading-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a replay of India\u2019s most powerful launcher heading into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/220307576\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: ISRO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s GSLV Mk.3 rocket took off Monday on its first full-scale orbital test flight, delivering the GSAT 19 communications satellite to an on-target orbit after successfully demonstrating new solid rocket boosters, a twin-engine core stage and an upgraded cryogenic upper stage engine.<\/p>\n<p>The 142-foot-tall (43-meter) rocket lifted off from India\u2019s east coast at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT) Monday with 2.2 million pounds of thrust from its two side-mounted solid rocket boosters. Two Vikas engines on the GSLV Mk.3\u2019s core stage and a CE-20 engine on the upper stage took control of the flight to place the GSAT 19 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s flight was the first orbital launch of the GSLV Mk.3, which has twice the lift capability of India\u2019s next-biggest rocket, the GSLV Mk.2.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details.<\/p>\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>Video credit: ISRO India\u2019s GSLV Mk.3 rocket took off Monday on its first full-scale orbital test flight, delivering the GSAT 19 communications satellite to an on-target orbit after successfully demonstrating new solid rocket boosters, a twin-engine core stage and an upgraded cryogenic upper stage engine. The 142-foot-tall (43-meter) rocket lifted off from India\u2019s east coast [&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":[3280,1259,1680,3281,301,525,25,2832],"class_list":["post-14548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gsat-19","tag-gslv","tag-gslv-mk-3","tag-gslv-mk-3-d1","tag-india","tag-isro","tag-launch","tag-shar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548"}],"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=14548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}