{"id":14871,"date":"2017-02-16T22:55:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-on-time-launch-for-first-ariane-5-flight-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T22:55:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:55:41","slug":"photos-on-time-launch-for-first-ariane-5-flight-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-on-time-launch-for-first-ariane-5-flight-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: On-time launch for first Ariane 5 flight of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launching with two communications satellites to broadcast television to Brazilian homes and connect the islands of Indonesia, an Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from a space base at the northern edge of the Amazon jungle Tuesday, the first of seven planned flights by the European-built booster this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ariane 5 ECA, towering 180 feet (55 meters) tall, lifted off at 2139 GMT (4:39 p.m. EST; 6:39 p.m. French Guiana time) Tuesday atop 2.9 million pounds of thrust from its Vulcain 2 main engine and two solid rocket boosters.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Brasil 1 and Telkom 3 communications satellites were deployed into an on-target orbit less than 40 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story on the launch for details.<\/p>\n<p>The images below were captured by remote cameras near the ELA-3 launch zone, from the Toucan viewing site around 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the pad, and from Hotel des Roches in nearby Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22140\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22140\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dec-shEST_0221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dec-shEST_0221.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dec-shEST_0221-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dec-shEST_0221-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Dec-shEST_0221-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 OV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22160\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22160\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235_Decollage_plan-serre_sans-texte1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235_Decollage_plan-serre_sans-texte1.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235_Decollage_plan-serre_sans-texte1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22161\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22161\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0851.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0851-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0851-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0851-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22162\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22162\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0382.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0382-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0382-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0382-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22163\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22163\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235-Decollage-plan-large1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235-Decollage-plan-large1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235-Decollage-plan-large1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235-Decollage-plan-large1-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/VA235-Decollage-plan-large1-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22164\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22164\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741.jpg 849w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22164\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22164\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741.jpg 849w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-TOUCAN_0741-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22165\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22165\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0461.jpg 848w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0461-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0461-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Plan-large_0461-724x1024.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22166\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22166\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22166\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Hotel-des-Roches_0011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Hotel-des-Roches_0011.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Hotel-des-Roches_0011-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Hotel-des-Roches_0011-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Decollage-Hotel-des-Roches_0011-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/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>Launching with two communications satellites to broadcast television to Brazilian homes and connect the islands of Indonesia, an Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from a space base at the northern edge of the Amazon jungle Tuesday, the first of seven planned flights by the European-built booster this year. The Ariane 5 ECA, towering 180 feet [&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":[1657,3262,1540,498,1819,2386,2164,1773],"class_list":["post-14871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airbus-defense-and-space","tag-airbus-safran-launchers","tag-ariane-5","tag-arianespace","tag-brazil","tag-ela-3","tag-eurostar-e3000","tag-guiana-space-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871"}],"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=14871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}