{"id":14788,"date":"2017-03-18T20:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-echostar-23-takes-flight-on-falcon-9-rocket\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T12:18:44","slug":"photos-echostar-23-takes-flight-on-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-echostar-23-takes-flight-on-falcon-9-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: EchoStar 23 takes flight on Falcon 9 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EchoStar 23 communications satellite, on the way to a 15-year service life broadcasting television signals, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n

The 12,345-pound (5,600-kilogram) spacecraft took off at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT) aboard the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 booster. Around 34 minutes later, the rocket\u2019s second stage released EchoStar 23 into an egg-shaped geostationary transfer orbit with a high point around 22,300 miles (35,900 kilometers above Earth.<\/p>\n

These photos from sound-triggered remote cameras at pad 39A, and from a viewing site around three miles (5 kilometers) away, show the kerosene-fueled Falcon 9 taking off and soaring east from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n

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

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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: Walter Scriptunas II \/ Scriptunas Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The EchoStar 23 communications satellite, on the way to a 15-year service life broadcasting television signals, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 12,345-pound (5,600-kilogram) spacecraft took off at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT) aboard the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 booster. Around 34 […]<\/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":[1819,291,3156,3311,479,428,1702,2897],"class_list":["post-14788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brazil","tag-commercial-space","tag-echostar","tag-echostar-23","tag-falcon-9","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-space-systems-loral"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788"}],"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=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}