{"id":15240,"date":"2016-09-09T21:16:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-indias-gslv-fires-off-the-launch-pad\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T21:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:16:28","slug":"photos-indias-gslv-fires-off-the-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-indias-gslv-fires-off-the-launch-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: India\u2019s GSLV fires off the launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18404\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18404 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/17take.jpg\" alt=\"17take\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/17take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/17take-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>India\u2019s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country\u2019s east coast Thursday, delivering a weather satellite into orbit and achieving the third success in a row for the previously-troubled booster.<\/p>\n<p>The all-Indian 161-foot-tall (49-meter) rocket lifted off from the Second Launch Pad, one of two orbital-class facilities at India\u2019s Satish Dhawan Space Center, at 1120 GMT (7:20 a.m. EDT; 4:50 p.m. India Standard Time) Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The launch base is located on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of the industrial city of Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>A solid-fueled first stage motor and four strap-on Vikas engines consuming a mixture of liquid hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide powered the initial two minutes of the ascent. An upper stage with an Indian-developed cryogenic engine released the Insat 3DR weather observatory into orbit as planned about 17 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s launch of the GSLV Mk.2 was the rocket\u2019s third consecutive successful flight after a rash of failures earlier in its development. The rocket is sized to haul bigger satellites into space than India\u2019s workhorse PSLV, which has a much stronger success record.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal panels are seen coming off the rocket at liftoff. They keep the GSLV\u2019s liquid propellants at the right temperature during the countdown, then detach at launch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18405\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18405\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/18take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/18take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/18take-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18406\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18406\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/22take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/22take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/22take-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18407\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18407\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/20take-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18408\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18408\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/23take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/23take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/23take-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18409\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18409\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/19take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/19take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/19take-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18410\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18410\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/24take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/24take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/24take-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18411\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18411\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/21take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/21take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/21take-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18412\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18412\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/28takeoff.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/28takeoff.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/28takeoff-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18413\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18413\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/26take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/26take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/26take-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18414\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18414\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/25take.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/25take.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/25take-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18415\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18415\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/27takeoff.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/27takeoff.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/27takeoff-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/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>Photo credit: ISRO India\u2019s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country\u2019s east coast Thursday, delivering a weather satellite into orbit and achieving the third success in a row for the previously-troubled booster. The all-Indian 161-foot-tall (49-meter) rocket lifted off from the Second Launch Pad, one of two orbital-class facilities at [&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":[1259,1580,3602,301,3603,525,2832,2515],"class_list":["post-15240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gslv","tag-gslv-mk-2","tag-gslv-f05","tag-india","tag-insat-3dr","tag-isro","tag-shar","tag-weather-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240"}],"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=15240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}