{"id":15425,"date":"2016-06-23T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-pslv-climbs-away-from-indian-spaceport\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:48:13","slug":"photos-pslv-climbs-away-from-indian-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-pslv-climbs-away-from-indian-spaceport\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: PSLV climbs away from Indian spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firing into orbit from a barrier island on India\u2019s east coast, a 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off early Wednesday to deploy 20 satellites in a perch more than 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Propelled by a solid-fueled core stage and six strap-on solid rocket motors, the PSLV XL launched at 0356 GMT Wednesday (11:56 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on nearly 2 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n<p>The liftoff from the space center\u2019s Second Launch Pad occurred at 9:26 a.m. local time in India with satellites for the Indian military, Indian universities, technology giant Google, the space agencies of Canada, Germany and Indonesia, and U.S.-based Planet, a San Francisco company aiming to cover the entire globe with small Earth observation spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16290\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16290\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1pslv-c34takeoff-view1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1pslv-c34takeoff-view1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1pslv-c34takeoff-view1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16291\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16291\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2pslv-c34takeoff-view2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2pslv-c34takeoff-view2-2.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2pslv-c34takeoff-view2-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16292\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16292\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view3.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16293\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16293\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view4.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view4-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16294\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16294\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view5.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view5.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view5-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16295\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16295\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view6.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view6.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view6-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16296\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16296\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view7.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ISRO\" width=\"675\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view7.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/pslv-c34takeoff-view7-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16296\" 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>Firing into orbit from a barrier island on India\u2019s east coast, a 145-foot-tall (44-meter) Polar 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Propelled by a solid-fueled core stage and six strap-on solid rocket motors, the PSLV XL launched at 0356 [&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":[3669,3670,584,880,3072,3270,3671,1608],"class_list":["post-15425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-beesat-4","tag-biros","tag-canada","tag-canadian-space-agency","tag-cartosat","tag-cartosat-2","tag-cartosat-2c","tag-cubesats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425"}],"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=15425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}