{"id":15935,"date":"2015-11-10T22:42:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T14:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-ariane-5-counting-down-to-liftoff\/"},"modified":"2015-11-10T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T14:42:28","slug":"photos-ariane-5-counting-down-to-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-ariane-5-counting-down-to-liftoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Ariane 5 counting down to liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launch crews rolled out a nearly 180-foot-tall Ariane 5 rocket to its launch pad Monday in a final major step before liftoff with the Arabsat 6B and GSAT 15 communications satellites to broadcast television, broadband and other telecom services across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India.<\/p>\n<p>Pulled by a heavy-duty Titan tug along dual rail tracks, the Ariane 5 emerged from its final assembly building at the Guiana Space Center on Monday morning and reached the ELA-3 launch zone by midday, where technicians configured the rocket and its mobile platform for the countdown Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is set for 2134 GMT (4:34 p.m. EST) Tuesday at the opening of a 43-minute launch window.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10501\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10501\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_037.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_037.jpg 842w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_037-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_037-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10502\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10502\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10502\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_111.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"621\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_111.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_111-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10503\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10503\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_098.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_098.jpg 842w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_098-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_098-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10504\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10504\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_125.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_125.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_125-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10505\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10505\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_152.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"620\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_152.jpg 842w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_152-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Transfert-lanceur-en-ZL3_152-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10506\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10506\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_019.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"621\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_019.jpg 841w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_019-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_019-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10507\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10507\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_022.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"620\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_022.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_022-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10508\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10508\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_028.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"620\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_028.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_028-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10509\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10509\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10509\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_070.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"620\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_070.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_070-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10510\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10510\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_092.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"621\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_092.jpg 841w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_092-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_092-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10511\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10511\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_093.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"620\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_093.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_093-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10512\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10512\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_116.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"621\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_116.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_116-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10513\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10513\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_104.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"621\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_104.jpg 841w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_104-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_104-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10514\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10514\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_105.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"620\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_105.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Lanceur-en-ZL_105-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 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>Launch crews rolled out a nearly 180-foot-tall Ariane 5 rocket to its launch pad Monday in a final major step before liftoff with the Arabsat 6B and GSAT 15 communications satellites to broadcast television, broadband and other telecom services across Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India. Pulled by a heavy-duty Titan tug along [&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":[3888,1540,498,3889,3890,1773,1611,3892],"class_list":["post-15935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arabsat-6b","tag-ariane-5","tag-arianespace","tag-badr-7","tag-gsat-15","tag-guiana-space-center","tag-telecom","tag-va227"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935"}],"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=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}