{"id":15986,"date":"2015-10-19T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/imagery-from-fridays-fiery-proton-rocket-launch\/"},"modified":"2015-10-19T17:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T09:22:38","slug":"imagery-from-fridays-fiery-proton-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/imagery-from-fridays-fiery-proton-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagery from Friday\u2019s fiery Proton rocket launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft\u2019s Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds.<\/p>\n<p>The 191-foot-tall rocket launched at 2040:11 GMT (4:40:11 p.m. EDT) Friday, lifting the 5.4-ton Turksat 4B satellite into orbit before deploying the craft thousands of miles above Earth nine hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The liftoff occurred at 2:40 a.m. local time Saturday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xj7CAF8p7xc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9937\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9937\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1265683629.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1265683629.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1265683629-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1265683629-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1265683629-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9938\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9938\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3897061303.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3897061303.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3897061303-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3897061303-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3897061303-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9934\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9934\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1317562837.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1317562837.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1317562837-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1317562837-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1317562837-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9935\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9935\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2798458899.jpg\" alt=\"2798458899\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2798458899.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2798458899-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2798458899-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2798458899-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9941\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9941\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4184783943.jpg\" alt=\"4184783943\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4184783943.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4184783943-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4184783943-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/4184783943-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9936\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9936\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1748104045.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1748104045.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1748104045-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1748104045-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1748104045-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9940\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9940\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2029261521.jpg\" alt=\"2029261521\" width=\"621\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2029261521.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2029261521-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2029261521-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2029261521-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9939\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9939\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9939\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2930820083.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"621\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2930820083.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2930820083-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2930820083-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2930820083-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9933\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9933\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/574224.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/574224.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/574224-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/574224-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/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>Turkey\u2019s newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft\u2019s Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds. The 191-foot-tall rocket launched at 2040:11 GMT (4:40:11 p.m. EDT) Friday, lifting the 5.4-ton Turksat 4B satellite into orbit before deploying [&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":[1601,1968,2646,1969,2484,2110,1611,3925],"class_list":["post-15986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","tag-breeze-m","tag-international-launch-services","tag-khrunichev","tag-melco","tag-proton","tag-telecom","tag-turksat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986"}],"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=15986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}