{"id":16432,"date":"2015-03-29T19:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/look-back-at-fridays-soyuz-launch-from-the-amazon\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T11:00:19","slug":"look-back-at-fridays-soyuz-launch-from-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/look-back-at-fridays-soyuz-launch-from-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Look back at Friday\u2019s Soyuz launch from the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two satellites for Europe\u2019s Galileo navigation network lifted off at sunset Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket from a tropical launch pad at the edge of South America\u2019s Amazon rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-story Soyuz rocket fired its kerosene-fueled engines and vaulted away from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 6:46 p.m. local time (2146 GMT; 5:46 p.m. EDT), about six minutes after sunset. The rocket\u2019s Fregat upper stage successfully delivered the Galileo satellites to orbit nearly 15,000 miles above Earth about 3 hours, 48 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Look back at the picturesque liftoff with a video replay and launch photos.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AYQau76BDDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5322\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5322\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11080560_10155398670035301_3748403401502607130_o.jpg\" alt=\"11080560_10155398670035301_3748403401502607130_o\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11080560_10155398670035301_3748403401502607130_o.jpg 679w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/11080560_10155398670035301_3748403401502607130_o-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5323\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5323\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-depuis-shelter-est_0231.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin\" width=\"621\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-depuis-shelter-est_0231.jpg 840w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-depuis-shelter-est_0231-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-depuis-shelter-est_0231-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5324\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5324\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5324\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CBL9bCXXEAAKgXX.jpg-large.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CBL9bCXXEAAKgXX.jpg-large.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CBL9bCXXEAAKgXX.jpg-large-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 S. Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5325\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5325\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_031.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"620\" height=\"877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_031.jpg 595w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_031-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5326\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5326\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_091.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste\" width=\"621\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_091.jpg 840w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_091-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Decollage-Colibris_091-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace \u2013 Photo Optique Video du CSG \u2013 G. Barbaste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two satellites for Europe\u2019s Galileo navigation network lifted off at sunset Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket from a tropical launch pad at the edge of South America\u2019s Amazon rainforest. The 15-story Soyuz rocket fired its kerosene-fueled engines and vaulted away from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 6:46 p.m. local time (2146 GMT; [&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":[498,1763,1397,1773,395,1302,4101],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arianespace","tag-fregat","tag-galileo","tag-guiana-space-center","tag-navigation","tag-soyuz","tag-vs11"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432"}],"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=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}