{"id":15434,"date":"2016-06-17T19:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-ariane-5-on-the-launch-pad-for-heavy-lift-mission\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:16:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T11:16:40","slug":"photos-ariane-5-on-the-launch-pad-for-heavy-lift-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-ariane-5-on-the-launch-pad-for-heavy-lift-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Ariane 5 on the launch pad for heavy-lift mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ariane 5 rocket is counting down to a second launch attempt Saturday to carry two communications satellites into space for DISH Network and Indonesian banking customers, taking the heaviest payload ever launched into geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Unfavorable upper level winds kept the 180-foot-tall (55-meter) rocket grounded Friday, but Arianespace targeted another launch opportunity Saturday at 2030 GMT (4:30 p.m. EDT). The rocket will blast off from Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>These photos show the Ariane 5 on the ELA-3 launch pad at the Guiana Space Center Thursday night after rollout from the rocket\u2019s final assembly building.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16129\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16129\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_006.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_006.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_006-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16131\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16131\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_069.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_069.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_069-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16132\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16132\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_098-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_098-1.jpg 842w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_098-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_098-1-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16134\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16134\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_134.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron\" width=\"675\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_134.jpg 842w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_134-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_134-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16135\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16135\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_132.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_132.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_132-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Piron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16136\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16136\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_169.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_169.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_169-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16137\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16137\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_183.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin\" width=\"675\" height=\"955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_183.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lanceur_ZL3_183-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/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>An Ariane 5 rocket is counting down to a second launch attempt Saturday to carry two communications satellites into space for DISH Network and Indonesian banking customers, taking the heaviest payload ever launched into geostationary transfer orbit. Unfavorable upper level winds kept the 180-foot-tall (55-meter) rocket grounded Friday, but Arianespace targeted another launch opportunity Saturday [&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":[3262,1540,498,3673,3674,3156,3676,2386],"class_list":["post-15434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airbus-safran-launchers","tag-ariane-5","tag-arianespace","tag-bank-rakyat-indonesia","tag-brisat","tag-echostar","tag-echostar-18","tag-ela-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434"}],"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=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}