{"id":15460,"date":"2016-06-10T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-proton-rocket-climbs-into-space-from-kazakhstan\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T01:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T17:41:14","slug":"photos-proton-rocket-climbs-into-space-from-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-proton-rocket-climbs-into-space-from-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Proton rocket climbs into space from Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian Proton rocket lifted off Thursday with a U.S.-built communications satellite to broadcast television over Latin America, firing into orbit from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

The Proton rocket and its Breeze M upper stage lifted off at 0710 GMT (3:10 a.m. EDT; 1:10 p.m. Baikonur time), turned northeast over the Kazakh steppe, and reached orbit about 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n

The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket\u2019s payload is the Intelsat 31\/DLA-2 communications satellite, a 7-ton broadcasting station owned by Intelsat and leased by DirecTV Latin America to beam direct-to-home television signals to homes and businesses across Central and South America.<\/p>\n

The hydrazine-fueled rocket and its Breeze M upper stage were programmed to put the Intelsat 31\/DLA-2 spacecraft, made by Space Systems\/Loral in California, into a \u201csupersynchronous\u201d transfer orbit more than 40,000 miles (65,000 kilometers) above Earth.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft has its own engine to circularize its orbit in the coming weeks at an altitude of more than 22,000 miles (35,700 kilometers) over the equator, beginning a 15-year service life.<\/p>\n

Managed by International Launch Services and Khrunichev, the Proton\u2019s sales firm and builder, Thursday\u2019s launch was the 412th flight of a Proton rocket since it debuted in 1965, and the heavy-lifter\u2019s third mission this year.<\/p>\n

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