{"id":16071,"date":"2015-09-12T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-soyuz-blasts-off-from-the-jungle\/"},"modified":"2015-09-12T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T10:11:55","slug":"photos-soyuz-blasts-off-from-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-soyuz-blasts-off-from-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Soyuz blasts off from the jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vsOLnNJFqxc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A late-night liftoff Thursday lit up the forested shoreline of South America as a Russian-made Soyuz rocket streaked into orbit with two new satellites for Europe\u2019s Galileo navigation system.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-story rocket launched at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT; 11:08:10 p.m. local time) from the Guiana Space Center, adding the ninth and 10th satellites to the Galileo navigation network, a European analog to the U.S. Global Positioning System and Russia\u2019s Glonass positioning platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket soared into clear skies over French Guiana, flew around the world and deployed the twin satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth about four hours later.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read our&nbsp;full story.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8965\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8965\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20691229614_5b87310b84_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20691229614_5b87310b84_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20691229614_5b87310b84_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8966\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8966\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8967\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8967\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21126030638_efeff92a5c_k.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015\" width=\"621\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21126030638_efeff92a5c_k.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21126030638_efeff92a5c_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21126030638_efeff92a5c_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21126030638_efeff92a5c_k-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8968\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8968\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec_planLarge.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG\" width=\"620\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec_planLarge.jpg 842w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec_planLarge-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/VS12_Dec_planLarge-768x543.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8969\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8969\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20692826743_e918b54ee0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20692826743_e918b54ee0_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20692826743_e918b54ee0_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8970\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8970\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21313916535_727ae8c251_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21313916535_727ae8c251_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/21313916535_727ae8c251_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\u2013Manuel Pedoussaut, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8971\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8971\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Decollage-Colibri_064.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 P. Baudon\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Decollage-Colibri_064.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Decollage-Colibri_064-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo 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>A late-night liftoff Thursday lit up the forested shoreline of South America as a Russian-made Soyuz rocket streaked into orbit with two new satellites for Europe\u2019s Galileo navigation system. The 15-story rocket launched at 0208:10 GMT Friday (10:08:10 p.m. EDT; 11:08:10 p.m. local time) from the Guiana Space Center, adding the ninth and 10th satellites [&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":[498,1397,1773,395,1302,3957],"class_list":["post-16071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arianespace","tag-galileo","tag-guiana-space-center","tag-navigation","tag-soyuz","tag-vs12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071"}],"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=16071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}