{"id":16098,"date":"2015-08-31T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-proton-rocket-soars-from-baikonur\/"},"modified":"2015-08-31T22:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:45:53","slug":"photos-proton-rocket-soars-from-baikonur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-proton-rocket-soars-from-baikonur\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Proton rocket soars from Baikonur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s Proton rocket returned to flight Friday, blasting off for the first time since a May launch mishap. Relive Friday\u2019s launch with a video replay and photos of the daytime liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.<\/p>\n<p>The Proton rocket launched at 1144 GMT (7:44 a.m. EDT) from the Kazakh space base and released the third communications satellite for Inmarsat\u2019s Global Xpress broadband network into a high-altitude orbit more than 15 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The flight marked the 405th Proton launch since 1965.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hge1iskQYIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8628\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8628\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3A3U3837s.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Khrunichev\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3A3U3837s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3A3U3837s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Khrunichev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8629\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8629\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3A3U3842s.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Khrunichev\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3A3U3842s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3A3U3842s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Khrunichev<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8632\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8632\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4207338736.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4207338736.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4207338736-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4207338736-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/4207338736-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8630\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8630\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3702872755.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3702872755.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3702872755-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3702872755-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3702872755-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8631\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8631\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3729833346.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3729833346.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3729833346-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3729833346-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3729833346-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8633\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8633\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/121576581.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Roscosmos\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/121576581.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/121576581-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/121576581-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/121576581-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8633\" 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>Russia\u2019s Proton rocket returned to flight Friday, blasting off for the first time since a May launch mishap. Relive Friday\u2019s launch with a video replay and photos of the daytime liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Proton rocket launched at 1144 GMT (7:44 a.m. EDT) from the Kazakh space base and released the third communications [&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":[1601,2607,3972,2646,2110],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baikonur-cosmodrome","tag-inmarsat","tag-inmarsat-5-f3","tag-international-launch-services","tag-proton"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098"}],"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=16098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}